Enabling Individuals to Navigate Change, Adapt to New Roles, and Achieve Professional Success

As global executive coaches and career transformation consultants—we are often asked by our clients around the world: “What is the most important determinant of leadership, career development and advancement?”

Our reply initially surprises our clients, until we share the research and science of learning agility. Comprehensive Learning Agility is defined as “the ability and willingness to learn quickly and then apply those lessons to perform well in new and challenging leadership situations.”

Said Kenneth DeMeuse, Ph.D., Publisher of the TALENTx7®—the international gold standard of learning agility self-assessments: “Everyone has a certain amount of learning agility. Moreover, if we are willing, we can develop more of it.”

Organizations that incorporate measures of learning agility into their talent management processes can better identify high-potential employees and develop them effectively. Learning agility is a better predictor of being identified as a high potential than job performance, and it can be used to predict future promotability. Moreover, learning agility is crucial for adapting to the rapidly changing business environment. It helps employees stay relevant, future-proof against disruptions, and thrive in unpredictable situations.

Comprehensive Learning Agility extends beyond the simplistic view of growth mindset.  Kenneth DeMeuse, Ph.D. reminds us that Comprehensive Learning Agility is the composite of seven distinct facets, providing information on an individual’s leadership potential. This overall score provides useful input for a number of talent decisions, such as determining an internal candidate’s suitability for promotion into management, identifying individuals to be placed into high potential leadership programs, or hiring external leaders into an organization.

For development purposes, however, the scores on the seven unique facets (shown in the following diagram) provide diagnostic guidance on which leadership areas are current strengths and which require enhancement.

“The TALENTx7® is an insightful and practical investment which can be made by an individual without the involvement or approval of one’s manager or Human Resource Department; it is accompanied by a debriefing by an executive coach and certified practitioner of TALENTx7®,” says Kevin Asbjörnson, Managing Director of Inspire Imagine Innovate.  We match the current career path and organizational role of our individual clients with the results of the TALENTx7® individualized report which enables us to advise clients as to where they are in alignment or not in alignment with their overall career aspiration. An individual development plan is co-created by our executive coach and client, leveraging the results of the TALENTx7®.”

“The tangible benefits and outcome of the TALENTx7® debriefing and executive coaching conversation is a career blueprint—which enables our clients to navigate change, adopt to new roles, and achieve professional success as defined by their individual aspirations and definition of success,” says Asbjörnson. 

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