Accelerating Your Development as a Leader: A Guide for Leaders and Their Managers

The Next Steps

I mentioned earlier that senior executives are beginning to place increased emphasis on an individual's learning agility. The chart on the next page summarizes six characteristics of learning-agile professionals. As a starting point for your own development, why not ask your manager or a few selected peers or other managers whom you trust and respect to use the learning behaviors listed in this chart to share with you how they view your learning agility.

Here are a few tips to make the process easier:

1. Rather than ask other people to rate you on each of these factors (people tend to be a bit noncommittal when a friend or colleague asks them for written feedback), a more effective option is ask your colleagues to identify one behavior ...