From the course: Developing Adaptable Employees
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Why you need an adaptive team
From the course: Developing Adaptable Employees
Why you need an adaptive team
- Now let's say you have an entire team that's quite comfortable with the status quo and is completely unprepared to adapt to change. Then suppose you spent a significant amount of time helping a single worker on your team to become more adaptive. You regularly mentor that worker so they naturally come agentful, continually looking for new problems to solve, developing innovative solutions, and embracing a constantly-changing environment. Now you have one person who's an adaptive superstar, and the rest of the team isn't. How's that working for you? How do you think the majority of the team is going to treat that highly-adaptive worker? Human nature being what it is, the most likely response will be for the team to reject that change agent. Then you'll be right back where you started. That's why it's not sufficient simply to have one or two adaptive workers. You need a team of adaptive workers, a collaborative group that's dedicated to continually coordinating their efforts to adapt…
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