Elevated leaders prioritize growth, learning, and lifting others to foster organizational effectiveness.
Vertical development involves advancing to higher levels of cognitive and emotional sophistication as a leader.
Cultivating positive mindsets, such as growth and open mindsets, contributes to elevated leadership and fosters organizational culture.
Deep dives
The Importance of Being an Elevated Leader
The podcast episode explores the significance of being an elevated leader in an organization. The speaker emphasizes that the leader's vertical altitude sets the ceiling for the effectiveness of the organization. Leaders operating from lower altitudes tend to prioritize their own desires, such as looking good and getting ahead, which limits the organization's growth and potential. In contrast, elevated leaders focus on contributing, adding value, and lifting others. They prioritize growth, learning, and thinking optimally. Elevating leadership requires developing positive mindsets, such as growth, open, promotion, and outward mindsets, and healing from past trauma.
Understanding Vertical Development
The podcast introduces the concept of vertical development, which refers to elevating the leader's ability to make meaning of their world in a more cognitively and emotionally sophisticated way. The speaker explains the three levels of vertical development: mind 1.0, mind 2.0, and mind 3.0. At mind 1.0, leaders prioritize safety, comfort, and belonging. Mind 2.0 leaders focus on standing out, advancing, and getting ahead. Mind 3.0 leaders prioritize contribution, value creation, and lifting others. The speaker highlights the importance of assessing one's own vertical altitude and center of gravity to identify areas for growth.
The Role of Mindsets in Vertical Development
The podcast delves into the different mindsets that influence vertical development. The speaker presents four sets of mindsets: fixed, closed, prevention, and inward mindsets associated with negative desires like looking good and avoiding problems, and growth, open, promotion, and outward mindsets associated with positive desires like learning, reaching goals, and lifting others. The speaker emphasizes the importance of cultivating positive mindsets, as they contribute to higher levels of cognitive and emotional sophistication. The assessment of one's mindsets can guide the vertical development journey.
The Impact of Trauma on Vertical Development
The podcast discusses the role of trauma in inhibiting vertical development and the importance of trauma healing. The speaker explains how trauma can lead to a self-protective mindset, hindering growth and openness. Understanding trauma and its effects is essential in the vertical development journey. The speaker recommends books like 'What Happened to You?' by Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey, and 'The Body Keeps the Score' by Bessel van der Kolk as resources that delve into the topic of trauma and provide insights on healing.
Creating an Elevated Leadership Culture
The podcast highlights the significance of elevated leaders in shaping organizational culture. The speaker emphasizes the need for executives to develop positive mindsets and become elevated leaders that others want to follow, rather than relying on positional power. The speaker notes that the collective mindset of the executive team sets the tone for the organizational culture. Organizations are encouraged to assess the mindsets of their leaders and focus on developing a culture that prioritizes growth, learning, and contribution.
“The vertical altitude of the organization leaders sets the ceiling for how effective the organization can be."
Ryan Gottfredson is a leadership development researcher and a Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author of “The Elevated Leader”. In this episode, Ryan explained the concept of an elevated leader and why it is important to have elevated leaders in an organization. He described the role of vertical development in elevating leadership and how it differs from the horizontal development that many of us are familiar with. Ryan described in-depth the 3 different levels of vertical development, including the cognitive and emotional aspects associated with each of the level. Towards the end, Ryan explained the 4 different types of mindset and why it is important for leaders to understand and heal from past traumas in order to become elevated Mind 3.0 leaders.
Listen out for:
Career Journey - [00:04:38]
Elevated Leader - [00:06:38]
Importance of Elevated Leader - [00:10:30]
Horizontal & Vertical Developments - [00:14:27]
Cognitive and Emotional Development - [00:18:48]
3 Levels of Vertical Development - [00:23:18]
Center of Gravity - [00:32:28]
4 Different Mindsets - [00:36:04]
Understanding Past Trauma - [00:41:34]
Improving Our Past Trauma - [00:45:18]
Elevated Leader & Culture - [00:48:59]
3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:53:50]
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Ryan Gottfredson’s Bio Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D. is a cutting-edge leadership development author, researcher, and consultant. He helps organizations vertically develop their leaders primarily through a focus on mindsets. Ryan is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author of Success Mindsets: The Key to Unlocking Greater Success in Your Life, Work, & Leadership and The Elevated Leader: Leveling Up Your Leadership Through Vertical Development. He is also a leadership professor at the College of Business and Economics at California State University-Fullerton.
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