Vertical Growth - by Michael Bunting (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Learn the secrets to self-awareness, life-changing growth and happy, high-performing teams--from the bestselling author of The Mindful Leader

Great leaders and teams don't know everything, and they don't get it right every time. What sets them apart is their commitment to continual learning and vertical growth. Vertical growth is about cultivating the self-awareness to see our self-defeating thoughts, assumptions and behaviours, and then consciously creating new behaviours that are aligned with our best intentions and aspirations.

By embracing the deliberate practices and processes for vertical growth laid out in this book, you'll not only radically improve your leadership and personal wellbeing--you'll also foster the highest levels of trust, psychological safety, motivation, and creativity in the teams and groups you work with.

You'll to discover how to:

• Identify when, where and how to develop new leadership behaviours to get better results
• Regulate your emotional responses in real time and handle the most difficult challenges with balance, wisdom and accountability
• Cultivate practices for self-awareness that foster lifelong internal growth and personal happiness
• Uncover and change the limiting assumptions and beliefs that keep you, your team and organisation locked in unproductive habits and behaviours
• Create practices and rituals that enable the highest levels of psychological safety, innovation and growth

Filled with fascinating real-life case studies as well as practical tools and strategies, this is your handbook for mastering vertical growth in yourself, your team and your organisation.

From the Back Cover

'This is essential reading for any leader who wants to understand how to transform their leadership and their culture.'
--Michael Wright, Executive Chairman and CEO, Thiess

'No matter how senior you are, after reading this book, you will not live or lead the same way again.'
--Andre Viljoen, CEO, Fiji Airways

MASTER SELF-AWARENESS TO CREATE SUSTAINABLE CHANGE

Developing new leadership behaviours personally and in teams and organisations is challenging, perplexing and elusive. So how can we dramatically increase our odds for successful growth and transformation? The answer is vertical growth. Vertical growth is the process of developing true self-awareness. This enables us to see the unconscious forces driving our thoughts and behaviours, and to consciously realign with a deeper, life-serving purpose.

From bestselling author Michael Bunting, Vertical Growth offers a simple, elegant framework to help individuals, teams and organisations master the process of lifelong growth and transformation. Through illustrative stories about successful leaders as well as specific practices and tools that you can apply, you'll discover how to harness personal self-awareness to bring sustained leadership growth.

This is your handbook for cultivating the capacity to grow in wisdom and transform your behaviour for good. Learn how to:

• understand your mind and regulate emotional responses
• expose and resolve limiting assumptions and fears in yourself and your team
• cultivate internal harmony and genuine happiness
• build a culture of psychological safety, trust, accountability and curiosity
• develop the ability to make any challenge a growth process.

Vertical Growth will help you to undertake a journey of transformation and self-discovery, leading to sustainable change for individuals, teams and organisations.

About the Author

MICHAEL BUNTING is the author of the bestselling title The Mindful Leader and co-author of Extraordinary Leadership in Australia and New Zealand. He and his team help leaders and organisations around the world to fulfill their highest potential.