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Identifying the Agile Leader - Les Woller
While it has never been easy to pinpoint the qualities that define the best leaders, a body of recent work suggests that “learning agility” is essential to success in leaders. Learning agility is the very essence of the Skill. In this white-paper Les defines agility/adaptabilty as the skill to think things through a fresh, and adjust your behavior to achieve positive results. Les then outlines numerous benefits for individuals and organizations of increasing their adaptability.
Career Security – James Woller
“Where has the age of job security gone”, James asks. Twenty years ago, jobs had much more tenure and long term prospects than they do today. As James identifies, there is a new reality in the workplace today and in order to survive you will need to focus on and develop 3 key areas in order to build career security. He argues that in todays volatile work environment career security is not found in your technical knowledge, results or the organization, it is found in your agility.
Interviewing for Adaptability – Les Woller
Imagine you need to hire/promote 400 people for key managerial positions within a two-week period as part of a growth strategy and have to select them from a pool of over 1400 existing employees? This case study outlines how this was flawlessly accomplished, while finding hidden talent, maintaining high retention and providing for a successful transition. The interview process primarily focusesed on selecting adaptable staff, which proved to be the key to success.
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