What is cognitive agility?
I am sharing the skills that make up resiliency so you know when you are being a resilient leader. Awareness is key, so you can do it again. We are building our awareness and vocabulary around resiliency.
Last month I shared a graph from BU Labs. The five skills that are making a difference today include: cognitive agility, emotional regulation, self-compassion, optimism, and self-efficacy.
Today we are talking about cognitive agility.
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A 2018 study by Jared Ross defined cognitive agility as the capacity of an individual to easily move back and forth between openness and focus. Improving cognitive agility has the potential to increase emotional intelligence by increasing an individual’s ability to move between highly focused states to levels of broad, outward awareness, which enables dynamic decision-making and enhances personal communication skills.
I like to tell my clients cognitive agility is shifting your perspective from seeing the forest to seeing the trees. I see the big picture, and I also see the details. Work is constantly changing. We need leaders to be able to shift their thinking to adapt to new challenges. One thing that is always constant is change. So, what does this look like in real life?
