70% of Workers Trust Their Leaders Less Than 5 Years Ago
Updated: Jul 29
THIS WEEK'S READ
Adaptability Pays — Literally
A recent study found the most adaptive organizations are 7–8x more likely to report strong financial performance, and 6x more likely to report high productivity.
The good news: adaptability isn't a trait you're born with. It's a capacity that can be measured and built.
OUR TAKE
Some teams are breaking under this pressure. Others are thriving under the exact same conditions. The difference is their adaptability.
And adaptability is not a character trait. It's not something you have or don't have. It's a capacity — one that ebbs, flows, and can be built. It runs on three things:
Trust: The foundation of organizational relationships. When it's low, your org becomes the Hunger Games, and when it is high, organizations can move quickly towards goals.
Learning: This is not IQ. It's the ability to take experience from one place and apply it somewhere new, so you never make the same mistake twice.
Risk-taking: Can people fail safely? No smart risks, no adaptation.
All three depend on the beliefs, values, and behaviors of the individuals, the culture, and the system. Push major change into a team that doesn't have the capacity for it, and you'll get resistance, roadblocks, and burnout.
YOUR NEXT MOVE
Everyone keeps telling you to "build trust." Nobody tells you how. We're fixing that in our upcoming workshop
Eroding From the Inside: How broken trust is destroying your organization, and what it takes to actually rebuild it.
Wednesday, July 29 | 12:00 PM CT
INDIVIDUAL ADAPTIVE CAPACITY DIAGNOSTIC
This beta version is available right now for you to try it out. This information will be used in our first stage of research on adaptability at an individual level.
Interested in the Adaptive Capacity Diagnostic for teams? Email info@wellledstrategies.com for more information.
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