This image is one of our career coaching clients, Olivia Streater, who has a portfolio career.
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What does agility mean?
The dictionary definition of agility is:
- “the ability to move quickly and easily”
- “the ability to think and understand quickly”
- “the skills of pivoting quickly”
Until I looked up the definition of agility, I had always associated the word just with the physical, not the brain and thinking.
Impact of Covid-19 on accelerating change
Covid-19 and its impact on businesses has been a great example of agility at work!
Things that would have taken a long time to change, possibly 100 years, have happened in a matter of just months through necessity.
Pain is often a catalyst for rapid change.
“It is not the most intelligent of the species that is the most likely to survive, it is the ones most adaptable to change.” Charles Darwin.
We have all been thrown ‘in the deep end’ at work by Covid-19!!
We have had to adapt very quickly to on-line meetings on Zoom and Team, on-line webinars instead of face to face and much more!
Working parents have been forced to combine work and home-schooling. Something I have huge admiration for.
Covid-19 has forced people to be agile.
This is one of the positive aspects of Covid-19.
Times are changing. At last.
Working from home has opened up many people’s eyes to how things could be different.
How career agile are you?
Career agility is a form of intelligence. It is also a skill that can be learnt.
A very apt quote for our times is: “When the winds of change blow, some people build windmills, others walls.” Chinese proverb.
Lockdown = time to think
Lockdown in 2020 has given many people unexpected time to really think.
About what they want.
Are you ready to make a change?
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More
4 reasons career agility is a must and how to get there:
https://www.womenonbusiness.com/4-reasons-career-agility-is-a-must-and-how-to-get-there/
What is your career agility quotient?https://www.atalent.com/define-improve-career-agility/
How to create career agility post-Covid: What it takes to be most competitive. Forbes article May 2020.