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

Your Next Steps

During the next three weeks I would like to see whether you are willing to take three actions to help you accelerate your on-the-job learning. The first two actions will help you determine the degree to which you are learning agile, while the last step is designed to strengthen your learning agility.

1. Interview others to obtain feedback on your learning agility. From the list of questions that follow, select three that you think could help you gather valuable information about how others view your learning agility. Then select five people with whom you have worked closely over the past year. Ask each person to select one situation, such as a work task, project, or short job assignment, on which the two of you have worked closely ...