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Adaptability - The Essential “Change” Leadership Capability

The P6 Adaptability Analysis describes our willingness (flexibility), as well as our inherent ability (versatility), to effectively deal with different, difficult, unclear or complex situations.

Let’s Talk About Change.

Did you know that change is about to change even more? It’s true. Researchers often cite the following four key dimensions regarding change in our lives and the world we live in. Sure, it seems like common knowledge, but the need for highly-adaptable leaders, managers and organizations has never been greater. And will only increase.

1The rate of change will continue to accelerate.

2The sources of change will continue to be less predictable.

3The areas of change will continue to broaden, diverge and take new forms.

4The nature of change will continue to significantly affect us at the individual, group, organizational and societal levels.

Benefits of Adaptability

Adaptability is increasingly becoming one of the most important predictors of personal performance. It determines our level of willingness, and our ability to effectively cope with changing situations, challenges, obstacles and opportunities.

It is essential that highly-adaptable leaders possess the following two qualities:

Flexibility is an attitudinal factor. It represents one’s willingness to effectively change their view, approach or position when appropriate. It is a learned behavior. Highly-flexible people tend to be confident, tolerant, empathetic and positive.

Versatility is a behavior life-skills factor. It reflects one’s degree of demonstrated ability to effectively change our position when appropriate. Our aptitude for adapting, if you will. Skills include resilience, vision, competence and self-correction.

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An Assessment that Adapts to the Needs of Today’s Leaders.

The P6 Adaptability Analysis is designed to determine a leader or manager’s level of flexibility and versatility. It is unique in that it recognizes the all-important qualitative differences in the performance among said leaders (and workgroups/teams, organizations). This includes different, difficult, unclear or complex situations.

Further, our assessment goes beyond job-specific or transferable capability assessments. And is distinctly different from the three types of motivational factors: personal style (P6 DISC), values and interests.

Highly-Adaptable Leaders, Managers and Organizations are Still Too Rare.

This is our current reality. But it’s time for change. You see, adaptive work cultures have been found to significantly outperform non-adaptive businesses. In fact, a study reported in “Corporate Culture and Performance,” conducted over an 11-year period, determined that…

Adaptive cultures increased revenue by an average of 682% vs. 166% for other firms.

Adaptive cultures increased their workforce by 282% vs. 36% for other firms.

We have worked with Quinny for over 15 years. He has coached and helped us grow into a multifaceted, cohesive company with a strong management team. His unique and methodical approach to guiding the team to success has been a great learning experience for each of us, both professionally and personally.

– Carl Jelleme

CEO/Owner of Toscana Corp, Nantucket, MA