Welcome to the Era of Adaptability…Will You Be Ready?
Welcome to the Era of Adaptability…Will You Be Ready?
How Adaptability Can Make the Difference in Your Future Success and Few Strategies to Increase it
In keeping with this week’s theme of Adaptability “The Wellthy Leader” is now “On Leading Well”… new name, but same great (I hope :) content. Happy Reading!
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The Adaptability issue: New Name, Same Great Content / Welcome to the Era of Adaptability… / You Can’t Simply Decide to Be a Different Person / Take 5: How to Become an Expert in Something New / The Lighter Side of Adaptability
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Welcome to the Era of Adaptability…Will You Be Ready?
How Your AQ Can Make the Difference in Your Future Success and Few Strategies to Raise It
You’ve seen the headline…”The future of work is changing”
I think it’s safe to say, it’s already changed.
Many people who previously only dreamed of working from home are now getting the chance ... or are planning to leave …or have left their jobs if they can’t.
While great in many ways…
The days and often nights can often feel like an endless stream of Emails, Zoom meetings, and Slack messages.
Our technological capabilities are changing at an exponential pace.
Making the last 2+ years a crash course in adaptability.
A course in which some passed and may even get to the top of their “class”, while others were left behind, struggling to adjust.
No matter where you’ve landed on the grading curve the question that we all need to be asking ourselves now, is will I be ready in the future?
Survival of the Adaptable
If you believe the world will go slowly, quietly back to how it was, I wish you luck and, (hopefully) a rather large retirement account.
The technologies being developed to address COVID, and the related societal changes may both improve our lives, and, for some, make them more difficult.
A recent McKinsey report found that by 2030 between 400 and 800 million individuals could be displaced by automation and will need to find new jobs.
Leaving up to 375 million people may have to switch occupations and learn new skills in the next 10 years.
Depending on your ability to adapt that’s either terrible news or a great opportunity.
Given the projections, it’s little wonder that a recent EY survey of C-suite leaders found that adaptability was one of the top five skills they viewed as needed to succeed in the future.
They viewed it as a necessary soft skill to enable teams to quickly learn new skills and behaviors so they can better respond to the inevitably changing circumstances.
In the face of rapidly shifting paradigms in the world of work, adaptability may just be the skill you need to also succeed in the future.
A Few Things to Think About to Develop Your Adaptability Skills
The good news is adaptability is a soft skill and is therefore learnable. Below are a few things to keep in mind to help improve your adaptability skills going forward:
1. Know Yourself - Knowing yourself, your character, values, and beliefs can help you to address and better navigate changes in the future. If you know you may be resistant to making changes or have some have habits or beliefs that could get in the way there’s no better time than now, to incrementally commit to letting them go.
2. Have a Growth Mindset – Change is hard. If it were simple, we’d all be perfect, and well, I wouldn’t be writing this. While change can be scary if you embrace it as an opportunity to improve, learn, and grow you’re more likely to achieve your goals in the long term.
3. Take A Risk – Taking risks is a key part of being adaptable. It can help prepare you for the inevitable changes that will come and make you more resilient when you face them.
4. Create an “A” Team – Changing habits, patterns and behaviors is never easy, but they’re a lot less difficult when we have support from others. Enlist colleagues and/or friends to be your accountability team to help you take risks, monitor and change behaviors.
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RECOMMENDED LISTENS, READS And other interesting things
You Can’t Simply Decide to Be a Different Person - From the wise folks at The Atlantic…Forming new habits isn’t impossible, but it’s much easier for some people than others.
Take 5: How to Become an Expert in Something New - And from Kellogg Insights, Turns out, there’s a “special sauce” that can help you get there. But expertise can also come with a curse.
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The Lighter Side of Adaptability
