Who is this book for?This book was designed for any motivated person seeking to develop skills that lead to increased learning agility. The suggestions provided are aimed at gaining insight on learning strengths and remedying skill needs. The content will also help anyone who is serving as a manager, mentor, or feedback giver.We know that anyone who has not yet recognized and accepted a learning agility need, limitation, weakness, or development opportunity will not be helped by what's in this book. If you are in denial, rationalizing, confused, or being defensive about having needs, nothing in this book will help.People who do accept that they have a need to increase their learning agility but do not have the motivation, drive, urgency, or energy to do anything about it also won't be helped by what's in this book.So, this book is intended for people who believe they have a need and want to do something about it. There are hundreds of tips and workarounds in this book that will help you develop skills that lead to increased learning agility.

Experience is vital for a leader’s success, but merely having an experience (such as a challenging new job, a stretch assignment, or an unexpected hardship) isn’t enough. The best leaders know not just how to seek out developmental experiences, but how to extract the essential lessons within each experience and apply them to future situations. This book will walk you through a four step process for making the most out of your experiences. You will learn how to seek out beneficial experiences, make sense out of both old and new experiences, internalize the most useful lessons from each experience, and apply those lessons to new, unfamiliar, and challenging situations. By becoming learning agile, you’ll be able to use the lessons of experience to meet the challenges headed your way.

Ancient Chinese philosopher Lao-Tzu is often credited with the phrase, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” Unfortunately, he had nothing to say about which step was the right one. Your journey to be the leader you want to be begins here. Lead 4 Success sets your development as a leader on the right track, focusing on the four fundamental skills that fuel the thoughts and drive the actions of leaders who make a difference: SELF-AWARENESS, LEARNING AGILITY, COMMUNICATION and INFLUENCE. Each of those essential skills is comprised of other skills. You will learn about all of them in Lead 4 Success. To ensure the success of your leadership journey, use this book as a guide. Its tools and ideas will help you develop and put into practice the skills that you need to demonstrate true leadership.

How to develop "learning agility" or the ability to adjust, adapt, respond to, and be resourceful in the face of change.

The Leadership Machine describes the four fundamentals of management and leadership development:- The competencies/skills that matter for leading in new and different situations - How skills are developed - Who is best equipped to learn these skills - What it takes to make development work.

This book concretely defines the concept of learning agility and offers a business case for why organizations of all types should concentrate on building and sustaining this approach. It provides readers with a holistic approach towards the topic, and helps leaders leverage the learning agility of individual employees to sustain a learning-agile workplace culture. Synthesizing academic research and practical approaches, this book takes leaders through ways to interview and assess potential employees for learning agility, develop and foster an environment for learning agility, and measure the results of a learning agile workplace. The authors present an innovative learning agility assessment which has been developed, tested, and implemented by clients and outline metrics which can measure the results of a learning agile workforce. This little-understood but highly advantageous approach is crucial for leaders to understand if they wish to deliver results and impact their organizations' bottom line.

Learning agility is not a new concept, but it took years of research to prove that it really does exist, and can be quantified on an individual level. Out of that research came the introduction of the Burke Learning Agility Inventory¿ (Burke LAI) as the first reliable, theoretically grounded way to measure learning agility. This book explains how learning agility is measured, and explores the ways that this information can be developed and applied by individuals and organizations.