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Coaching for Leaders

273: Essentials of Adult Development, with Mindy Danna

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Mindy Danna: Adult Development Mindy Danna has over 20 years experience helping individuals and organizations achieve their goals through coaching, organization development, and strategic facilitation. She specializes in workplace communication, influencing skills, sales management, team building, strategic facilitation, and conflict resolution. Key Points The stages of development from Robert Kegan: Impulsive mind (early childhood) Imperial mind (adolescence) Socialized mind (46% of the adult population) Self-Authoring mind (41% of the adult population) Self-Transforming mind There are only modest correlations with age and the adult developmental stages. We can absolutely regress backward into prior stages depending on context and situation. Knowing more about what stage(s) you identify with will help you have more compassion for yourself and for others. Your most practical development plan: Do one thing every day that scares you. Resources Mentioned Invictus movie Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization* by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life* by Robert Kegan Changing on the Job: Developing Leaders for a Complex World* by Jennifer Garvey Berger Cultivating Leadership website Related Episodes The Best Way to Do On-the-Job Training (episode 32) What Every Leader Ought to Know About Sending People to Training (episode 36) How To Get The Most Out Of Training, with Bonni Stachowiak (episode 135) Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

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One of the key responsibilities of any leader is to develop the people in their organization.

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And yet it often seems like everyone has a different way of learning.

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On today's show, the perspective on the stages of adult development

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so you can better support and develop the people you lead.

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This is coaching for Leaders, episode 273.

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Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.

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Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your

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host Dave Stahoviac. Leaders aren't born, they're made.

0:44.2

And this weekly show gives you access

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to the practical wisdom that will empower you

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to become a better leader.

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And if you're joining the show for the first time,

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welcome.

0:54.6

I am so glad you're here.

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And if you're returning, I think you'll find today's conversation

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to be very enlightening and empowering, and also to help you not only have more compassion for others but have more compassion for yourself because today's

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we're gonna look at the stages of adult development. And this is one of those things

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that as I was talking with today's guest,

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I thought I knew more about.

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And I realize that I don't know as much about this as I want to and so I'm really

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excited for today's conversation because I know that I'm going to learn a lot as well and my guest today is an expert in adult development and that

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is Mindy Dana. She has over 20 years experience helping individuals and

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