This interesting article is courtesy of Symblify and well worth repeating here.Tímea Csízik
Coach | OD Consultant | Developer | HR Professional

You might find it hard to answer this question, because flexibility is not a one-dimensional feature. As much as it is a desired quality for most of us, it is also a complex phenomenon, as the word ‘flexibility’ actually covers several separate skills.

It’s useful to break down the meaning of flexibility into five different categories to make self-assessment easier and provide clearer self-knowledge. None of us is perfect in each of these categories but all of us can find our personal strengths among them.

Creativity

Creativity is the cognitive aspect of flexibility. It means your mind is flexible enough to create something new that does not yet existing (an idea, a solution, a product etc.), as a result of combining well-known things and information. It is important to emphasize these new creations come from a combination of our previous experience, as highly creative people tend to make extremely flexible associations between contents in their mind.
If you know yourself as somebody who often discovers original solutions and connects things that other people would have never associated, then creativity is probable among your strengths from the five types of flexibility.

Changing Perspectives

This is the perceptive aspect of flexibility. In this dimension flexibility refers to the ability to easily see a situation from different perspectives. This can be the perspective of others, and this is why this type of flexibility forms the basis of empathy.
Having a flexible perception can also enable us to examine a situation from a new or unusual angle, that wouldn’t come to other people’s minds.
If you find it easy to understand other people’s point of view and like to examine a question from different angles before making a decision, this type of flexibility may be one of your key strengths.

Incorporating new inputs

We all have some kind of structure in our mind about the world: how things work, how they should or shouldn’t work, how they are connected, how they are grouped etc.

It’s not easy to incorporate new information about the world in our existing systems.
It’s even harder to rebuild our old structure using new inputs and create a system that integrates both our old and our newly acquired information about the world.

If you are flexible in incorporating new inputs that means you are able to accept and embrace change in your environment, relationships, workplace rules etc. and to integrate this change into your everyday life.

Accommodation

Accommodation refers to the behavioral aspect of flexibility. It means you are flexible enough to alter your behavior in social situations in order to adapt to others and build your relationships.
If you find yourself easily accepting compromises in a conversation, you tend to find co-operative solutions instead of competing, you rarely hold on to your own opinion when it contradicts to others’ then this type of flexibility is probably one of your strengths.

I often like to quote a saying from Confucius, a famous Chinese teacher and philosopher once said “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

This sounds wonderful doesn’t it? Yet so many people find themselves working in jobs they hate. Going through the drudgery of every day and living lives of quiet desperation. They are in those jobs not because they love them, but because someone has to put bread on the table, right?

This is where I come in as Director of VETTA Communication. Let me introduce myself. I am Lionel Bourgeois and I am in the business of training people in organisations both large and small to find the gold, the spark that ignites them in their jobs. My biggest passion is to help people thrive and grow in their jobs and careers.
Let’s face it, how many people in your company love their jobs? Here’s the secret. You can only love your job when you realise how great you are. The only way to do this is to work to your strengths and re-ignite the reason you do what you do.

Jobs are not easy to come by these days and the fear of losing them is all too real for many of us. Hear the word ‘fear?’ Thing is when you invest in finding the greatness in what you do, and becoming grateful for your job, then and only then will you find the joy in coming to work each day.
At VETTA Communication we offer a range of extraordinary training opportunities to not only help you derive the greatest benefit from your job, and learn new skills, but to also find the greatness in who you are and in what you do.

I have been in the business of training for nearly 20 years, and what I love most about the work I do is seeing the light of passion in the eyes of those people who learn to love and become great at what they do. Through my training you will begin to take ownership of your job and in that way learn to love what you do.
As we draw closer to the end of 2018, I invite you to close the year on a high note and enrol in one of our many courses designed to bring out the best in you and your job.

I often like to quote a saying from Confucius, a famous Chinese teacher and philosopher once said “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

This sounds wonderful doesn’t it? Yet so many people find themselves working in jobs they hate. Going through the drudgery of every day and living lives of quiet desperation. They are in those jobs not because they love them, but because someone has to put bread on the table, right?

This is where I come in as Director of VETTA Communication. Let me introduce myself. I am Lionel Bourgeois and I am in the business of training people in organisations both large and small to find the gold, the spark that ignites them in their jobs. My biggest passion is to help people thrive and grow in their jobs and careers.
Let’s face it, how many people in your company love their jobs? Here’s the secret. You can only love your job when you realise how great you are. The only way to do this is to work to your strengths and re-ignite the reason you do what you do.

Jobs are not easy to come by these days and the fear of losing them is all too real for many of us. Hear the word ‘fear?’ Thing is when you invest in finding the greatness in what you do, and becoming grateful for your job, then and only then will you find the joy in coming to work each day.
At VETTA Communication we offer a range of extraordinary training opportunities to not only help you derive the greatest benefit from your job, and learn new skills, but to also find the greatness in who you are and in what you do.

I have been in the business of training for nearly 20 years, and what I love most about the work I do is seeing the light of passion in the eyes of those people who learn to love and become great at what they do. Through my training you will begin to take ownership of your job and in that way learn to love what you do.
As we draw closer to the end of 2018, I invite you to close the year on a high note and enrol in one of our many courses designed to bring out the best in you and your job.