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The importance of learning agility

The importance of learning agility

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The importance of learning agility

- Learning agility is the key to being able to adapt to change on both a personal and organizational level. Learning agility is described as the ability and the willingness to learn, largely from experimenting and seeking out new experiences. Adaptability is being able to take those learning experiences and apply them to challenges that you haven't encountered before. Taken together, this is the kind of growth mindset that creates a culture of change. Until recently, the world was relatively predictable. A person went to high school or maybe college and learned a profession and for most people the learning stopped there. People pretty much worked in the same kind of job for most of their professional lives, and as a result qualities like reliability, consistency, and precision were highly valued. Then things began changing rapidly. In the 21st century we began describing the world as VUCA: Volatile, uncertain or unpredictable, complex, and ambiguous. This idea was also applied to the…

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