{"id":15928,"date":"2021-04-05T18:16:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T18:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/careersuccess\/?page_id=15928"},"modified":"2024-10-21T15:46:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T15:46:27","slug":"wcsu-competency-adaptability","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/careersuccess\/wcsu-competency-adaptability\/","title":{"rendered":"WCSU Competency: Adaptability"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Adaptability<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n

\u201cChange is the only constant in life. One's ability to adapt to those changes will determine your success in life.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Benjamin Franklin<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Adaptability is having the capacity to adjust to shifting environments, situations and work requirements. These adjustments ideally should leave a net positive affect in the workplace and reflect a desire for lifelong learning.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Check out our\u00a0Skill Up<\/a>\u00a0page for some recommendations on online platforms you can use right now, at home, to develop your adaptability skills. Many offer free trials or free access to a large selection of different courses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Internships provide great experiences to develop a vast and varied skill set to fit many professional situations. The WCSU Cooperative Education Internship Program can also be used to obtain college credits for an approved internship. Check out our Internship<\/a>\u00a0page for more details.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The Career Success Center's Life Design<\/a> workshops and classes will teach you how to develop critical life and career skills including reframing of problems, collaboration, navigating unknowns, maximizing personal strengths, and much more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The National Workforce Development Center has a free, mini-course titled\u00a0Resiliency and Adaptive leadership<\/a>\u00a0which will give you insight into how to adapt under stress and avoid missteps when under stressful conditions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The Greater Danbury Chamber of Commerce<\/a> hosts many events and a large directory of member organizations across many industries. Many of these events and organizations can help you develop essential skills to become more adaptable while also building professional experience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Assume a role in one of the many great WCSU Student Clubs<\/a>. Enjoy practicing your subject of choice in one or more of the University's many organizations while you also practice an array of new skills which will make you a more adaptable individual.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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Become Involved With A Local Community Board Or Club<\/span><\/p>\n

Getting involved in a local community group is a great way to develop a variety of new skills while also having an impact on your area. Most groups are focused on specific issues or topics in the community so the opportunities to take part and even lead one of their initiatives are numerous.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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If you are interested in getting involved in one in the Danbury area checkout the\u00a0Greater Danbury Chamber Directory<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Cultural Centers<\/a>\u00a0of Danbury<\/p>\n

For any area of your choice, you can also check out\u00a0The Yellow Pages<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Great Nonprofits<\/a>\u00a0for exclusively nonprofit organizations<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Volunteering also creates many opportunities to practice skills that will make you more adaptable. You can even make a difference in other people's lives as you do it. These opportunities are not just limited to in person activities either. Some, like the Crisis Text Line which allows people to communicate via text with people in crisis, can be done entirely at home online.<\/p>\n

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If opportunities like this interest you, check out other\u00a0volunteering opportunities<\/a>\u00a0or come see us at the Career Success Center<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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You can demonstrate adaptability by learning a broad range of skills in your field, this can be easily done through WCSU organizations or online learning platforms like Coursera. Becoming certified on those skills can take you even farther. Showcasing fluency of multiple languages or even sign language can also showcase your ability to adapt. For more personalized advice you can come visit us at the Career Success Center.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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You identify methods to make changes work instead of how those changes will not work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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\"As a manager of a small team, changes in personnel can easily disrupt our current pace of work. When we get a new addition to our team, I like to have them shadow the rest of the team for a bit before starting on their work to reduce any of those disruptions.\"<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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You show willingness to learn new procedures and methodologies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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\"When training new employees, the same training process that worked on previous employees may not work on the new ones. When this happens, I try to learn about the trainee and personalize the process to increase their understanding.\"<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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You actively explore new methods, practices, and techniques to improve your performance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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\"Doing paperwork in the office is often just a lot of tedious work that takes quite a bit of time to complete. Sometimes I use that as a chance to experiment with new ways to save a few seconds or even minutes on each document. It can vary from using some new hotkeys or commands to using entirely new software or hardware.\"<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Adaptability \u201cChange is the only constant in life. One’s ability to adapt to those changes will determine your success in life.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Benjamin Franklin Adaptability is having the capacity to adjust to shifting environments, situations and work …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"university-homepage.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15928","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/careersuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/careersuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/careersuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/careersuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/careersuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/careersuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/careersuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}