8 Apps to Boost Your Teams Adaptability Quotient

Cultivating adaptability is one of the best ways to strengthen your team. Now more than ever, the adaptability quotient (AQ) plays a key role in the workplace following the shifts we’ve experienced this past year.

While there are many innate personality traits that make these skills easier to hone, it’s not impossible to teach your team to become more adaptable. (Tip for leaders: check out LinkedIn’s leadership course on developing adaptability.) 

It’s important to provide resources to your team so they can develop their AQ skills independently to not only improve success within your team, but also to encourage and promote personal professional growth. 

Check out these learning and growth apps to help your team develop and improve their adaptability quotient at work:

1. Udemy

Stepping out of your comfort zone to learn new skills is key to remaining flexible and open in new situations. Yet, most of the time we blame time and money for holding us back.

Thanks to Udemy, your team members don’t have to let those excuses keep them from learning new skills. Udemy offers over 130,000 online affordable courses with a real instructor that participants can complete in their own time. 

The best part about this app is they can study anything that helps them grow as a person and professional. It doesn’t have to be industry related, they can learn how to play the ukulele if they want. 

2. Bookly

Developing your growth mindset plays a critical role in improving your adaptability quotient. Leaders and employees must embrace the desire to improve their abilities. This is often easier said than done. We all know life can get pretty busy.

With Bookly, keeping up on daily readings has never been easier. This app helps users keep track of books they're reading, and enables them to maintain momentum to help develop skills faster. It can also keep track of quotes, thoughts, and data such as time spent reading and goals. Now, your team can finally get through those self-help books or skill-sharpening guides.

3. Motivate

Mistakes happen, and they can be disheartening -- but they can also be a great learning experience that can help you prepare for future problems.

Motivate can change your team’s mindset about making mistakes and help embrace these learning experiences to move consistently forward. This motivation app offers curated videos about getting started, taking action, productivity, and mindset. It also provides quotes and music to keep users focused and productive.

4. LinkedIn Learning

Being curious and learning from co-workers and others in the industry is one of the best ways to remain adaptable in the workplace.

LinkedIn Learning provides a place for your team to learn and seek advice from experts. This app is focused more on the professional side. Your team can customize a learning path based on their individual goals and skills that would be most valuable to improve on their AQ.

Fun Fact: People who are more adaptable tend to have greater job satisfaction. This confirms a number of other studies showing similar results. (Journal of Retailing and Consumer services)

5. Ummo

To be able to best respond to a situation at work, you must be a good active listener. Being good listeners helps your team address problems and find solutions. However, they must also be effective communicators in order to work together and respond to any situation. 

The Ummo app can help your team become better communicators by allowing them to understand their own speech patterns. It uses Speech Recognition and Speech Analysis algorithms to compute personal speech fitness at the word level.

This app will help your and your team confidently communicate in any situation to create a more productive and positive work environment. 

6. Shine Text

No matter how much employees love their jobs, they all have lives outside of work. And with the remote work, that mesh between work and home life is more and more muddled. Yet, you know the more clear-minded your team is, the better they’ll be at handling challenging and shifting situations.

Shine Text is a mindfulness app that can act as an inclusive self-care toolkit to help your team refocus from day-to-day highs and lows. Shine Text offers meditations, connection, and reflection that is relevant to individual needs and concerns.

Did you know:  there is a link between job performance and adaptability over the long term. This they think is linked to role flexibility and the ability to understand the context the job sits in. (Journal of Retailing and Consumer services)

7. Think Up

Developing an optimistic outlook and focusing on the positives is key to being able to address situations that may not have gone as planned. However, sometimes we need a little affirmation to help change our mindset.

Think Up is a motivation, affirmation, mindfulness, and gratitude platform. It’s aimed to help develop a positive mindset by building healthy habits, overcoming challenges, and achieving goals.

8. Headspace

It shouldn’t come as a surprise, that people with higher levels of emotional intelligence and emotional resilience are more likely to be able to adapt to new and changing situations.(Journal of Retailing and Consumer services)

With Headspace, your team can learn how to manage those everyday feelings and thoughts to improve their emotional intelligence and emotional resilience The app has a selection of topics such as performance mindset, productivity, sleep, stress, and anxiety that can provide an alternate route to better understanding of your own mindfulness. 

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What apps or tips do you use? What recommendations do you have for your team's AQ growth? Share with me!