INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT (ID) DEFINED

ID is any activity aimed at enhancing awareness levels of the individual (intrapersonal); raising shared meaning and interactions among colleagues (interpersonal); performance-based action in the world (performance-based/behavioral); and seeing oneself within and acting upon a larger system (system-wide). These levels are displayed in Figure 14.1, The Four Quadrants—Arenas of Development. Higher levels of ID include: witnessing the phenomenon of being an individual in an organization, demonstrating concern for and taking action on behalf of the whole, and galvanizing forces from all four quadrants (integral leader).
Founder of the “integral” movement, Ken Wilber (2001) seeks to understand humans and society ...

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