Can I do something to secure positions and maintain a successful career?

Yes! Studies show that 90% of the people who are dismissed from their positions sorely lack the Adaptive Skills. Ninety percent of top performers who quit work for bosses who lack in the Adaptive Skills. Investing in mastering the Adaptive Skills is an insurance policy for getting and keeping a job and successfully progressing in a career.

You bring to the work environment, to one degree or another, three types of skills:

• Technical Skills enable you to do a particular type of work well. Computer programming, eye surgery, construction, sales and hair cutting are examples.
• Basic Skills transfer to many work settings and are used in concert with technical skills in order to get your work accomplished. Planning, writing, speaking, organizing and problem solving are examples.
• Adaptive Skills contain the competencies used to get along with people, competencies which you began to develop when you were very young. They relate to how you get along with authority figures, the accuracy of your self concept, how critiques from others about yourself are handled, and your ability to express your feelings.

You will learn how to ...

• Assess your ability to use 12, key Adaptive Skills.
• Solicit, clarify, and effectively utilize feedback from others about the effectiveness of your adaptive skills.
• Surface and reduce defensiveness and resistance to feedback.
• Use awareness and collaborative coaching strategies to strengthen a given adaptive skill.