Agility Leadership Skills
In business, change is the only certainty. Leaders must be agile, acting quickly—but thoughtfully—in high-stress, rapidly changing environments. Agility leadership is the master competency defined by the following characteristics:
Situational Awareness
Agile leaders have situational awareness. At all times, they know what is going on around them, where they need to be, what poses a threat to operations and organizational success, etc.
Learning Agility
Agile leadership starts with a leader using their experience as a foundation and then mastering new knowledge, skills, and behaviors to seize new opportunities or overcome a challenge.
Adapting to change often requires creative thinking. Agile leaders are creative in their efforts to solve complex problems, identifying unique solutions that will produce the best possible outcomes. This may require learning new approaches and concepts. Doing things the same old way may not work!
Communication Agility
When sudden changes arise, leaders are responsible not only for how they respond to the unexpected but how their teams respond as well. Everyone must be on the same page! Agile leaders define a path forward and then inspire the team to join them as they seize the new opportunity or overcome the challenge.
Confidence is key to leading any team, but it’s imperative when leading a team through uncertainty. Agile leaders are confident in their decisions and ability to overcome challenges—and their teams perform with confidence as a result.
Change Agility
Once the leader has defined a way forward and inspired the team to join them, they then need to take care of the team by helping them get through the change. Good change leadership requires special attention to the needs of each person on the team. Many struggle with change, and while they may be committed to the vision, they need help getting through all the challenges the change will present.
Just in the last two years, industries across the board have had to adapt to sudden marketplace changes; some businesses overcame unique challenges, while others floundered. Interested in learning more about agility leadership training solutions? Contact Romar Learning Solutions today!
