The Leadership Development Framework (LDF) Process Explained

The LDF describes the sense-making processes by which people interpret and give meaning to their experiences – in essence, the filter through which they see their world. This filter changes as we develop and there are characteristic patterns, or stages called ‘Action Logics'. Your current Action logic can explain a lot about your assumptions, your thinking, behaviour, how you perceive and how you might be perceived.

Leaders' actions are the result of their own internal 'action logic', in other words how they personally make sense of their situation. The Leadership Development Framework (LDF) is a stage-based description of nine Action Logics that describes how a leader's sense-making process matures over the course of their life creating ever-greater potential for leadership performance.

The Action Logics describe an individual's ability to recognise, act on and shape the core conventions of their thought and behaviour. Every Action Logic offers a number of developmental possibilities, each more complex than the last. The LDF process helps leaders to identify their Action Logics and to consciously evolve their leadership capability.

The Process

The LDF has been developed from Jane Loevingers work on ego development and Washington University Sentence Completion Test (SCT). You will be invited to complete a set of 36 sentences covering a wide range of topics. The completed test is then scored and profiled by a trained consultant and fed back to you in the context of your wider coaching programme.

The LDF provides deep insight into how each person acts in the world. This opens up unseen perspectives that often generate the impetus for transformational change in the individual, their teams and the wider context they inhabit both at work and beyond.