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While Personal Agility is multi-dimensional, organizations need to strive to be 100% agile. Each agility can be addressed in different ways. Every agility can be seen as positive or negative. All of the seven agilities can be applied to any kind of company (large or small) no matter the return of their services.
To tolerate change we need Emotional Agility that will kill skepticism, attitudes, unwanted reorganization so as to create a good labor environment. Dealing with conflicts, negotiating with people, managing emotions and much more affects productivity. Moreover, all of these put together plus expectations effect emotions.
Although escalation, hedging and lessons learnt, make valuable tools to win Political Agility , stakeholder interactions and working with given parameters alone also does not guarantee political cautiousness. Full alignment is not achievable if there is hierarchical challenges within an organization in which the structure makes decision-making difficult and takes a long time. We need to move relationships at unions to set different political influences that effect the efficiency of an organization. To negotiate interest benefits with stakeholders being a roadblock makes it difficult to take decisions. If one has to take so many steps to do something, making the person is more important than process sometimes. If work environments have changed, one needs to improve this agility because it is desirable to get things done with the organizational goal n view.
Not improving speed at the expense of quality and being aware of the different agilities help identify problems at times. Learning improves over time or iterations and that is where Learning Agility can be honed. If you admit that you don’t know everything; then you are open to learn more. Acknowledging that we don’t know all, being open to delta, open to new awareness is the spirit of this agility. Not being afraid of change even when you do not know everything, to explore new discoveries and learning opportunities; will definitely have its impact on the organization as well as the individual too.
Change Agility entails embracing change which is ever present and inevitable. So adapting and being open to others opinions and emotions is key. One example would be discouraging differences between groups (process, tools) and allowing mistakes to be made without trying to punish the decision maker. Consequently creating a unified culture. It is not the same to recognize you are wrong vs you are
wrong and saying it. That involves putting yourself in another shoes while dealing with political environments because change works when we have options. LRM, the Last Responsible Moment from the Lean Thinking concept can help you select the best option. Too many delta needs quick responses and adaptability. New developments happen every day. Hence, when decisions need to be taken; being adaptive within projects and communicating the vision clearly with what options we have will give the right power to work with concurrent activities. One should find the other projects of an organization with related topics and the decision should be taken together to avoid duplicating efforts.
Know ourselves to improve and you don’t need to know everything. You can rely on others/experts. Dare to do it even if perfect actions are not a possibility. This is possible by being open to fresh understanding and not being afraid of change. So Education Agility empowers diversity and vice versa. A simple scenario would be educating oneself about the 360 degrees of any contract which will eliminate making/signing a contract too early to avoid wrong decision-making. Have more empathy and knowing oneself are important as well. This part of the education of oneself goes far and above the needs for oneself.
Cerebral Agility is to look for options for more learning, evaluating alternatives on the spot, so on and so forth. Opportunities seldom come by without working your mind and your brain. Using them quickly in an agile manner will get you to the top.
Empathy for better teamwork tied to it, will be the winning wave of Outcomes Agility. Always improving, evaluating alternatives, seeking the best options, bringing together shared visions and objectives lead to excellency. Uninspired manpower don’t go the extra mile. Improving speed to deliver results will take care of the ultimate outcomes of safety, housekeeping and hazard training
Being more proactive and having the new AgilityDiscoveries perspective for Self Analysis makes interaction of agilities a daily breath.
We at AgilityDiscoveries wish you all safe sailings to your desired shores.