Adult development assessment

Global Leadership Profile

 
 

About:

The Global Leadership Profile (GLP) is a psychometric tool from the field of psychology known as Vertical Development. It measures a person’s current framework of thinking and explores some of the mindsets and paradigms through which they may be experiencing the world.

In particular, the GLP profiles a person within a range of seven developmental stages (or thinking frameworks) important to leadership. These stages are based on the research of Bill Torbert and Global Leadership Associates and are known as “action-logics”:

 
Action Logics - adult development assessment
 

Research has consistently demonstrated that as leaders grow through the action-logics they develop greater capacity to influence personal, familial, team, organisational, and even societal transformation.

After completing the profile, a report is produced that includes:

  • an analysis of the person’s approach to problem resolution including how they make sense of events

  • an analysis of their distinctive, prior and emergent action-logics

  • an encapsulation of patterns that are uniquely theirs

  • suggested strategies that may contribute to transformational action and inquiry.

The person then attends a debrief session with a GLP-trained coach to:

  • understand the implications of their GLP from a personal, interpersonal and organisational perspective so they can apply practical tactics to issues of daily life

  • draw out their individual approach to problem resolution, surfacing emergent, prior and fall-back action-logics

  • explore next steps in their development.

 
 
 

Benefits:

✓  The profile, and its companion report, help us understand our current frameworks of thinking (action- logics). We are then able to make better sense of ourselves, others, and the contexts/systems around us. It helps us question our current mindsets and paradigms and begin to shift them if appropriate.

✓  It is a powerful reminder that how we currently think is not how we will always think. This typically provokes individuals to open-up to greater personal growth.

✓  The reports offer coaches a rich resource to draw from that can lead to many powerful coaching inquiries and explorations.

✓  The seven stages of leadership can be used as a shared language and context for leadership development within organisations.

✓  By measuring and analysing action-logics we are able to see more clearly the subtle dynamics at work within leaders, teams and organisations. Working on these can lead to deep transformations.

✓  The impact is further increased when the GLP is used in teams or within leadership development programmes.

 
 

Assessment Process:

STEP 1

Take the GLP online by completing the 30 sentence stems (approximately 1 hour).

STEP 2

Complete your self-assessment, gathering feedback from colleagues if desired.

STEP 3

Within 14 working days, your GLP Report will be ready for your review.

STEP 4

Attend a 1 hour, 1:1 debrief session to explore the implications of your GLP as well as next steps in your development.

 
 

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