Learning AGILITY

Learning Agility

What is learning Agility?

As organizations become more complex and dynamic, individuals' ability to learn from experience becomes more important.

Recently, the concept of learning agility has attracted considerable attention from human resource professionals and consultants interested in selecting on and developing employees' ability to learn from experience.

Learning agility is the capacity for rapid, continuous learning from experience.

It is the ability and willingness to learn from experience and then apply that learning to perform successfully in new situations

Learning agility is finding yourself in a new situation and not knowing what to do – but then figuring it out.

Learning agility also involves being open to new experiences, people, and information

Learning Agility: How important it is?

Agile learners are good at making connections across experiences, and they’re able to let go of perspectives or approaches that are no longer useful — in other words, they can unlearn things when novel solutions are required

People with this mindset tend to be oriented toward learning goals and open to new experiences. They experiment, seek feedback, and reflect systematically.

A desire to develop by acquiring new skills and mastering new situations is a fundamental element of learning agility.

Agile learners’ value and derive satisfaction from the process of learning itself, which boosts their motivation as well as their capacity to learn from challenging developmental experiences.

How to develop this Learning Agility?

1.    Start Experiment with new approaches or behaviours

Start unlearning from the past experiences, focus on new learnings/upskill yourself to approach & think different point of view reaching the goals

2.    Ask for feedback:

Think of one or more people who interacted with you or observed your performance on a given task.

Tell them you’d value their perspective on how you did and ask what you could do differently the next time.

3.    Make a time for reflection:

To ensure continuous progress, get into the habit of asking yourself questions like “What have I learned from this experience?

What turned out differently than I expected?

 Finally , Leaders who demonstrate and encourage reflection not only learn more themselves, they also spur increased contextual awareness and reflective practice in others, thereby laying a foundation for higher levels of learning agility in their teams and organizations.