Adaptability
The five attributes to adaptability are confidence, tolerance, empathy, positiveness and respect for others.
1.Confidence, means that you believe in yourself; you trust your own judgment and resourcefulness.
2.Flexibility, means you’re open to accepting opinions and practices different from your own. We can easily think of people who are intolerant of others because of religious or political beliefs. Those intolerant folks may attract like-minded people, but they don’t gain the attention of a diverse audience.
3.Empathy, the root of the word empathy is pathos, which means “feeling” in Greek. Empathy is a term for deep feeling. It means, “I feel what you feel. I can put myself in your shoes.” Another word with the same root, sympathy, means merely acknowledging someone else’s feelings. It results in kindness and pity, and it comes from the head. Empathy results in feeling the pain, or the joy, of the other person. It comes from the heart.
4.Positiveness, means having being fully assured and having hope. The late Dr. Norman Vincent Peale’s book The Power of Positive Thinking has sold well for more than 40 years because it contains such a universal truth. A positive attitude leads to positive outlook about the events taking place around and in your life.
5.Respect for others, means having a sincere desire to understand and consider other people’s choices, commitments and needs in relation to yours.
Another part of adaptability—Versatility
The five traits of versatility are resilience, vision, attentiveness, competence and self-correction.
1.Resilience means knowing how to overcome setbacks, barriers and limited resources. Mainly, it has to do with your emotional strength. Remember Raiders of the Lost Ark? Larry Kasdan’s hugely successful script was turned down dozens of times before someone finally shared his vision. How many cold calls that turn out to be, “No thank you,” can you bounce back from? If you keep on going until you succeed, that’s resilience.
2.Vision means having the ability to tap into your imagination, to be creative, to suggest alternatives, and be actively moving forward in the vision that is evolving before you.
3.Attentiveness means being aware of elements in the environment. It can be as simple as noticing when someone is getting bored, or sensing that now is not the right time to present your ideas. It’s knowing when to act and when not to act. It means paying attention to more than your own needs.
4.Competence means having a can-do attitude and following through on it. It begins with expertise, and it also involves a problem-solving ability that goes beyond your specialty. If you don’t know how to answer a question or fix a problem, you can find someone who does.
5.Self-correction means that once you initiate a project, you ask for feedback and place high priority on problem solving, not on being right. It means you are able to see when you have developed a nonproductive pattern in your behavior. It’s being able to say, “I think this approach isn’t working... I’d better try something different.”
Developing your adaptability allows you to understand how you function, relate to others, and how others function and relate differently as well. It does not mean suppressing or ignoring behavioral tendencies. It does mean adjusting your behavior to be more in line with who you are and your surroundings. The effectively adaptable person has a better outlook, is more content, and is up for most any challenges.
1.Confidence, means that you believe in yourself; you trust your own judgment and resourcefulness.
2.Flexibility, means you’re open to accepting opinions and practices different from your own. We can easily think of people who are intolerant of others because of religious or political beliefs. Those intolerant folks may attract like-minded people, but they don’t gain the attention of a diverse audience.
3.Empathy, the root of the word empathy is pathos, which means “feeling” in Greek. Empathy is a term for deep feeling. It means, “I feel what you feel. I can put myself in your shoes.” Another word with the same root, sympathy, means merely acknowledging someone else’s feelings. It results in kindness and pity, and it comes from the head. Empathy results in feeling the pain, or the joy, of the other person. It comes from the heart.
4.Positiveness, means having being fully assured and having hope. The late Dr. Norman Vincent Peale’s book The Power of Positive Thinking has sold well for more than 40 years because it contains such a universal truth. A positive attitude leads to positive outlook about the events taking place around and in your life.
5.Respect for others, means having a sincere desire to understand and consider other people’s choices, commitments and needs in relation to yours.
Another part of adaptability—Versatility
The five traits of versatility are resilience, vision, attentiveness, competence and self-correction.
1.Resilience means knowing how to overcome setbacks, barriers and limited resources. Mainly, it has to do with your emotional strength. Remember Raiders of the Lost Ark? Larry Kasdan’s hugely successful script was turned down dozens of times before someone finally shared his vision. How many cold calls that turn out to be, “No thank you,” can you bounce back from? If you keep on going until you succeed, that’s resilience.
2.Vision means having the ability to tap into your imagination, to be creative, to suggest alternatives, and be actively moving forward in the vision that is evolving before you.
3.Attentiveness means being aware of elements in the environment. It can be as simple as noticing when someone is getting bored, or sensing that now is not the right time to present your ideas. It’s knowing when to act and when not to act. It means paying attention to more than your own needs.
4.Competence means having a can-do attitude and following through on it. It begins with expertise, and it also involves a problem-solving ability that goes beyond your specialty. If you don’t know how to answer a question or fix a problem, you can find someone who does.
5.Self-correction means that once you initiate a project, you ask for feedback and place high priority on problem solving, not on being right. It means you are able to see when you have developed a nonproductive pattern in your behavior. It’s being able to say, “I think this approach isn’t working... I’d better try something different.”
Developing your adaptability allows you to understand how you function, relate to others, and how others function and relate differently as well. It does not mean suppressing or ignoring behavioral tendencies. It does mean adjusting your behavior to be more in line with who you are and your surroundings. The effectively adaptable person has a better outlook, is more content, and is up for most any challenges.
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