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How do you develop learning agility?
How to Build Learning Agility
- Be a Seeker. Seek out new and diverse experiences.
- Hone Your Sense-Making. In today’s high-stakes, complex, ambiguous, and fast-moving situations, you don’t have the luxury of time.
- Internalize Experiences and Lessons Learned.
- Adapt and Apply.
What are some strategies that support learning agility?
Among the ways to cultivate learning agility in yourself are:
- Innovating. Seek out new solutions.
- Performing. Seek to identify patterns in complex situations.
- Reflecting. Engage in “counterfactual thinking” – explore “what-ifs” and alternative histories for projects you’ve been involved in.
- Risking.
- Avoid defending.
Why is it important to learn agility?
People who have high levels of learning agility seek out and learn from unfamiliar experiences and then apply those lessons to succeed in the next new situation. Learning agility helps them know what to do when they don’t know what to do. Learning agility is not so much about what someone has accomplished.
What is the best exercise for agility?
8 Best Agility Training Exercises
- Lateral Plyometric Jumps. Lateral plyometric jumps help build explosive power, balance, and coordination by using our natural body weight.
- Forward Running, High-Knee Drills.
- Lateral Running, Side-to-Side Drills.
- Dot Drills.
- Jump Box Drills.
- L Drills.
- Plyometric Agility Drill.
- Shuttle Runs.
What is strategic agility?
Strategic agility is the ability to improve performance — not just survive but thrive — amid disruption. Our multi-year research project, based on studying qualitative and quantitative data from hundreds of organizations, suggests that strategic agility can be further broken down into six principles.
How do you show learning agility in an interview?
In your structured interview process, ask open-ended questions such as:
- ‘Tell me about a time when you asked for feedback from your boss or a colleague.
- ‘Tell me about a time when you made a mistake at work.
- ‘Tell me about a time when you had to do something you’d never done before.