5 Ways to Become a More Agile Learner, and Leader

Learning agility goes hand in hand with leadership agility.

Because when you demonstrate flexibility and a desire to learn from whatever comes your way, you deepen trust with others.

Want to learn some tips to develop this key skill?

Here are some ideas to help you:

Strategy #1: Be Curious to Learn

An agile learner will assume she doesn’t have all the answers.

So she will ask other people lots of questions, intent on learning something new from each of them.

By building her own knowledge in this way, the agile learner benefits from a collective intelligence which gives her a more balanced, robust world view.

Strategy #2: Step Out of Your Comfort Zone

An agile learner will be interested to step out of her comfort zone.

She knows this might feel uncertain but she knows too that venturing into new territory will only result in her continued growth and learning.

Strategy #3: Seek Out a Breadth of Experiences

An agile learner purposefully seeks broader, or different, experiences to continue her growth.

She might partner with different teams…

Join a work rotation…

Take on a new project within a different business silo…

Or look for opportunities to broaden her skills.

Strategy #4: Actively Seek Feedback

An agile learner will proactively seek out specific feedback from others about her own performance.

She knows that gathering data on her progress and blind spots, she can work to fast track her improvement.

Strategy #5: Be Objective

Lastly, the agile learner instinctively looks at situations, and outcomes, with objectivity.

The key is identifying the steps and contributing factors that produced the result (whether positive or not) and learning from them… objectively and without emotion or blame.

So there you have it!

Five ways to develop your learning agility muscle and build trust as a practical, objective leader who is capable of working with change, rather than against it.