“Building Behavioral Agility” Exploring Human Behavior Agility Through Metaphoric Constructive Conversations

Behavioral Adaptability is an individual's ability to adjust one’s behavior in response to changing circumstances, environments, or people. It is a crucial skill in both personal and professional contexts, as it allows individuals to navigate complex and changing social environments and respond effectively to new challenges.

Behavioral adaptability applies an organizational zoo metaphoric approach that utilizes 26 animal characters metaphorically substituting zoo behaviors with human behavior. Each of the 26 characters represents a behavior, not a person.

The Organizational Zoo metaphor approach enables groups of people to collectively explore which behaviors will lead to optimal outcomes in a particular context.

The Organizational Zoo creative metaphor helps us to consciously choose our behaviors and align them to present and future contexts

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1. 2023 Agile Open SoCal “Building Behavioral Agility” Exploring Human Behavior Agility Through Metaphoric Constructive Conversations 2023 Agile Open SoCal
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4. AgileByExample 2022: Craig Larman - Organizational design for L-scale adaptive product development
5. An individual's ability to adjust one’s behavior in response to changing circumstances, environments, or people. It is a crucial skill in both personal and professional contexts, as it allows individuals to navigate complex and changing social environments and respond effectively to new challenges. What is Behavioral Adaptability? 2023 Agile Open SoCal
6. Behavioral Adaptability Dr. Arthur Shelley 2023 Agile Open SoCal
7. It involves being flexible and open-minded in one's approach to different situations and being able to modify one's behavior to fit the specific demands of a given context. Behavioral Adaptability Approach is About... (1) becoming more consciously aware of your own behavior, (2) learning how to make deliberate choices about how to behave in different situations, (3) how to help others adopt an adaptable mindset. Why? Because identifying desired behaviors and adapting to emerging conditions is an essential enterprise skill needed in an increasingly complex world 2023 Agile Open SoCal
8. The culture of your zoo (organization, team, club, or home) is dependent on which animals inhabit it, where they are in your hierarchy, and how they interact. PHILOSOPHY OF THE ORGANIZATION ZOO: “A CREATIVE METAPHORIC MODEL" The more we understand our own preferred styles and the styles of others, the more effectively we can improve our own performance and positively influence others The characters are created for the purpose of understanding human behaviors and stimulating constructive conversations about the interactions between them Each of the 26 characters represents a behavior, not a person. Collectively, the characters represent most of the common behaviors observed in organizational contexts. The Organizational Zoo metaphor approach enables groups of people to collectively explore which behaviors will lead to optimal outcomes in a particular context. The Organizational Zoo creative metaphor helps us to consciously choose our behaviors and align them to present and future contexts
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10. Q1. What behaviors do you WANT to see in our Agile culture and performance? 2023 Agile Open SoCal
11. Q2. What changes can we make to improve our Agile culture and performance? 2023 Agile Open SoCal
12. Move the images to the most relevant row for your context Rejected Tolerated Desired Expected Q3. What are the most relevant behaviors in your Agile Team?? 2023 Agile Open SoCal
13. 2023 Agile Open SoCal Team Exercise https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVMhkfhbU=/?share_link_id=598333970210
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