Adaptive Capabilities Needed
in a Modern, Progressive Build
Part 1 / 3
Capabilities necessary for building and sustaining cultural landscapes of innovation, tangible change, and emotional competence.
1. Analytical Thinking and Innovating
- Able to identify and define problems, ideas, and experiments
- Able to extract key information from data and develop workable experiments for the ideas and problems
- Able to work in an iterative test-analyse-draw conclusions feedback loop to battle test, understand, and validate ideas, innovations, problems, and curiosities
- Comfortable and discerning with critique on ideas and findings
- Able to apply data-driven solutions to further creative ideas, resolve sticky problems, and innovate solutions
- Aspires to safe and productive failures
2. Complex Riddle Solving
- Able to understand how components of a system influence each other and other systems and therefore problems within them do not have a definitive formula nor set number of potential solutions
- Able to break things down into smaller parts and visualize linkages to ideate and propose new thinking
- Able to construct methods to invite stakeholders in light-touch processes of ideating, solving, iterating, and proposing
- Able to take in constructive critique continuously
- Able to apply data and insights to actively iterate ideas further
3. Critical Thinking and Analysis
- Able to raise vital questions, ideas, and problems
- Able to formulate questions, ideas, and problems clearly and precisely
- Able to gather and assess relevant information
- Able to use abstract ideas to interpret questions, ideas, and problems effectively
- Able to come to well-reasoned proposals, ideas, solutions, and conclusions
- Able to test proposals, ideas, solutions, and conclusion against relevant criteria and standards
4. Progressive Learning
- Able to think open mindedly within alternative systems of thought
- Able to recognize and assess as need be one’s assumptions, idea implications, and practical consequences
- Able to communicate effectively and collaboratively with others to drive toward solutions to complex problems
- Ability to pivot on a dime
5. Designing Learning Strategies
- Able to design from envisioned outcomes
- Able to think, design, cultivate from the user’s perspective and needs
- Able to design using alternative and varied methods and approaches
- Able to design from a blank page
- Able to extract and draw down a structure from a lot of data, insights, and information
6. Discernment
- Able to read a room
- Able to apply good judgment skills
- Able to suggest
- Able to read between the lines
- Able to hold back
- Able to listen to one's inner compass
- Able to map context / setting / questioning / contributing / disrupting / disturbing
7. Attention to Detail
- Able to line edit
- Able to quickly decipher information
- Able to hear in between words
- Able to anticipate
- Able to drive detail amidst ambiguity
- Able to proofread
8. Trustworthiness
- Dependable
- Reliable
- Supportive
- Flexible
- Able to hold information
- Able to not misuse information
- Able to hold another’s story
- Speaks one’s truth elegantly
9. Emotionality
- Actively aware of + accountable on self, limitations, style, strengths
- Able to regulate emotions positively
- Has and can use empathy wisely
- Motivated to grow + evolve
- Grows + evolves in the presence of | interactively with others
- Evident social + group skills
- Able to speak clearly, with personal authority, and from self
- Can rise above negativity without internalising it
10. Creativity, Originality, and Initiative
- Brings original thinking
- Proposes the less obvious ideas
- Takes initiative to move work forward, participate, and offer help
- Braves imagination and freshness
- Surfaces the unspoken
- “Wonders” aloud nicely
These are the first 10 of ~30 to give you an idea of where to begin.