Adaptability
Adjusting effectively to new situations, challenges, or environments.
What It Looks Like
Select a level below to see what the competency looks like at that level.
Leader of Self
- Embraces change with a positive and solution-oriented mindset.
- Quickly adjusts to shifting priorities without losing productivity.
- Seeks opportunities to learn new skills when facing unfamiliar challenges.
- Responds flexibly to unexpected obstacles or disruptions.
Leader of Others
- Proactively communicates upcoming changes with clarity on impact to team performance.
- Effectively implements required changes at team level while meeting commitments.
- Recognizes gaps in skills needed and implements development plans to address.
- Routinely engages team in exercises that promote situational adaptability and contingency plans.
Leader of Leaders
- Develops change agents to lead transformational initiatives within the organization.
- Directs changes in policies and procedures to align with shifts in strategies and priorities.
- Systematically builds and executes initiatives to grow skills needed for continued success and growth.
- Collects feedback at various levels to identify potential obstacles and communicates them.
Leader of Organization
- Creates a culture that rewards positive adaptability.
- Proactively adjusts organizational strategies and priorities to align with changing environments.
- Forecasts organizational skills needed to maintain success and continued growth.
- Anticipates obstacles and adjusts plans to maintain organizational effectiveness.
Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it. I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.
Philippians 4:11-12 (WEB)