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Building Resilience: Adaptability There are five simple ways to improve adaptability: look back, recognise, mindset, support, and embrace.

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Creating an adaptable team by Timothy Smith In this course, you can learn how to build more adaptable teams. First, learn about complexity and ambiguity—and see just how easy it is to give in to chaos and being overwhelmed. However, instructor Timothy Smith offers solutions, showing how to build a flexibility, growth, and courage mindset. Finally, find out how to improve your critical thinking skills and become a better conflict manager.
Developing adaptability as a manager by Dorie Clark Dorie Clark introduces strategies for becoming a more adaptable leader. Learn how to monitor for change in order to better prepare for it, hone your skills, and create a more adaptable team that is innovative and responsive to change.
How to be an adaptable employee during change and uncertainty by Dorie Clark Dorie shares concrete tips and strategies to become more adaptable—and embrace adaptability as an ongoing part of your life. Learn how to cultivate an adaptable mindset and build the right skills, including communication and open-mindedness. Then find out how to put your new adaptability skills into action by talking directly to your boss, taking on new tasks, and developing a positive attitude.

Journal Articles

Illustrating instrumental variable regressions using the career adaptability–job satisfaction relationship Many arguments suggest that the ability to adapt to careers leads to job satisfaction. This article published in Frontiers in Psychology by researchers from universities in Switzerland have found the reverse to be true: job satisfaction leads to career adaptability.
Seeking challenges, individual adaptability and career growth in the relationship between workload and contextual performance: A two-wave study In this study, it was found that individual adaptability plays an important role in mediating between workload and seeking challenges, which in turn leads to improvement of performance at work.

Web Resources

4 traits of a highly adaptable person This article published in LinkedIn highlights four ways one can become a highly adaptable person: become a curious learner; be fluid and flexible; just do it and celebrate failure.
6 important workplace adaptability skills In this article published by Indeed, six types of adaptability skills are presented, along with tips on how to improve them and highlight them in your resume.
Adaptability skills: Definition and examples This article by job portal Indeed spells out six soft skills that comprise adaptability as well as how to highlight those skills in your resume or cover letter.
Five skills everyone needs to become more adaptable in the coronavirus era — and afterward CEO and coach Jarret Jackson shares five characteristics of adaptable individuals: self-control; curiosity; integrity; fearlessness and followership.
How to demonstrate adaptability in the workplace This article from Career Addict highlights ten ways to improve adaptability.
The most sought after adaptive and digital skills in Singapore amid COVID-19 According to the report of NTUC LearningHub’s Employer Skills Survey which was conducted in April 2020, two in three employers deem ‘improving soft skills or adaptive skills’ an imperative when sending workers for training.

News Articles

As PMETs face challenges in the job market, support measures and adaptability are crucial: Experts With the COVID-19 pandemic seeing a sharp rise in unemployment, affected professionals, managers, executives and technicians (PMETs), who formed a larger share of retrenched workers even before the crisis, will have to learn new skills and be willing to enter new industries for employment.
Coronavirus: Vote of confidence for Singapore's adaptability to online work, school This opinion piece published in Straits Times is written by Professor Cham Tao Soon, president (emeritus) of Nanyang Technological University. It reviews past IT strategies and plans to access whether Singaporean workers and students are equipped with home-based learning and work from home.
Don't miss Forrest for the trees Forrest Li--the founder of local company Sea--prioritises big-picture thinking and adaptability during a year of uncertainty.