Five Actionable Steps to Build Cultural Adaptability
In today’s interconnected world, cultural agility is a must-have for anyone navigating diverse teams, learning a new organizational culture, working with generational differences, and working in multinational environments. One of the key aspects of cultural agility is cultural adaptability—the ability to adjust your behavior, communication, and expectations when interacting with individuals from different backgrounds.
Building Student Resilience: Problem vs. Symptom-Focused Strategies
Resilience is a vital skill for university students as they navigate academic challenges, social pressures, and personal growth. Core to building resilience is understanding how to cope effectively with stress.
Universities can do more to help students build resilience. In addition to teaching students about the strategies discussed below, universities can encourage students to use myGiide to further develop resilience. myGiide offers self-awareness and personalized insights and tips to strengthen students’ ability to manage the novel situations they are facing.
Students should also learn the difference between two key coping strategies and when to use them.
Build the Soft Skills You Need for an AI-Driven Future
As artificial intelligence (AI) changes how we work, it's not just technical skills that matter anymore. While automation can handle many tasks, the future will belong to those who can combine their tech expertise with key soft skills. If you want to stay ahead in this AI-driven world, mastering self-management and relationship-management skills is essential.
Crisis? What Crisis? How to Keep Your Cool and Your Team Connected During a Meltdown
When a crisis hits, keeping your cool as a leader is important. It is equally important for leaders to make sure their team does the same, staying cool, connected, and cohesive. Every team member will respond to stress differently, and understanding these differences can be the key to leading your team through turbulent times. Whether the crisis is external, like an industry shift, or internal, like a major project breakdown, the ability to navigate tension effectively is an invaluable leadership skill. Leaders need to know (ideally before a crisis) how team members will respond in moments of high pressure. At Skiilify, we prepare leaders with three key insights on their team that will affect how they respond to stress: resilience, tolerance of ambiguity, and communication styles.
Fostering Soft Skills for a Challenging Future
Soft skills are pivotal for success in a complex, fast-paced, and ever-changing work world. To ready the workforce for the changes to come, leaders need to equip their team members with a new set of soft skills required for adaptability. These soft skills are resilience, relationship-building, humility, perspective-taking, curiosity, and tolerance of ambiguity. Remember, it’s important to respect individual boundaries and work within everyone’s stretch zone. Each person’s journey is unique, and it’s essential to understand that one person’s stretch zone might be to much for another. By leveraging Skiilify’s myGiide, we can provide the tailored tools and support each team member build the soft skills needed for a complex, volatile, ambiguous, and uncertain world, ensuring they achieve their fullest potential.