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Developmentalist
was already pregnant with the Myth: if science has not
met the imaginative need, science would not have been so
popular. But probably every age gets, within certain
limits, the science it desires.” – C.S. Lewis
A developmentalist is someone who is versed in adult
developmental models, understands and uses the tools of @F-L-O-W; such as to
be able to fashion the assessment of capability along a trajectory of
development; most likely inborn into the personal dynamics, which are
predisposed to filtering and biasing reality in a way as to promote a
lifelong growth; towards inherent happiness and intersubjective success
requirements along the path of maturation.
In doing work with the developmentalist tools,
which are the personality dynamics in a portfolio:
– how you manage conflict
– your intrinsic motives
– your preferences
– your
DiSC
traits and Personal Interests
– Your metaprograms
– your strengths
I have found these to be helpful in telling a story about you
in self-report as to the different inbornness attributes in these areas,
which are often leveraging in knowing and knowable differences about one
another in life, work, and relationships.
development:
assessing leadership decision making perspectives
assessing ego complexity
assessing hierarchical task performance
assessing subject/object relations
assessing social perspective
These assessments are done by a scorer and not a program, as
in the personality dynamics, where self-report is key, and where in the
developmental assessments, they are done, with bias, but by scorers who are
familiar with and trained in scoring the development.
As a developmentalist, it is key to begin to understand that
each person in development has a unique journey, and while similar in some
levels because at one level we are almost all similar and at another level,
we are all almost different.
In genetics, we share 99.2% of the same genetic code among
24,000 genes or so.
Yet, this .8% seems to make us night and day in a lot of
respects.
I like to look at a staged approach to developmentalism:
basic biases and filters of reality,
-how this emergent personality is maturing through time on a
developmental trajectory, and
-what emerges as behavior when the intersubjective nature of
cultural scaffolding is present
To be succinct:
maturation
behavior
are often very important, actionable leverage points
that help us understand the mystery of being, doing, having, and becoming as
it unfolds.
Some people are interested in understanding and codifying
these three leverage points for a variety of reasons which are often
important to design in many ways, personal, professional, business, and
network resilience as it might unfold or be enhanced.
Helpful Hint:
Now, all of this rides on a pretty narrow set of possibilities
that developmentalism is even a necessary field of inquiry and experience to
be studied and codified and if you were one of those who chalked this up to
some BS malarky, I might be hard-pressed to disuade you, but the interest in
it by some, is nonetheless important, especially when these people have
power over you in various contexts.
Action Step:
Imagine that your inborness is motion across a trajectory of
maturation that is unique to you and that in order to reach effortless
@F-L-O-W, that you
can use the information to design in scaffolding that emerges behavior that
is successful without thinking. Knowing about a variety of developmental
architecture that is present for you to work with can be VERY helpful in
designing
EES to optimize happiness as it is in
@F-L-O-W towards
success.
You may want to take a look at the assessments we offer
HERE.
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We hope you pick up valuable insights, ideas, and
tools during this process, which you can use for your own development as
well as your work and leadership with others.
You, Me, and We @F-L-O-W
Mike R. Jay is a developmentalist utilizing
consulting, coaching, mentoring and advising as methods to offer
developmental scaffolding for aspiring leaders who are interested in
being, doing, having, becoming, and contributing… to helping people
have lives.
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