A leadership and learning expert shows you how to change your behavior develop soft skills
and achieve personal and professional growth through a series of small experiments she calls
?Flexing.? A personnel shift at your organization puts you into a leadership role you don't
feel prepared for. Your boss tells you that you seem aloof and unapproachable in client
meetings. You need to win the support of the members of a local community group for a project
you feel passionate about. Addressing these diverse issues depends on improving your soft
skills?such as time management team building communication and listening creative thinking
and problem-solving. But this isn't as easy as it may seem. Sue Ashford the chair of the
Management and Organizations group at the Ross School of Business has the solution. In this
timely book she introduces Flexing?a technique individuals teams and entire organizations
can use to learn grow and develop their skills and knowledge with every new project work
assignment and problem. Flexing empowers you to embrace any challenge and adapt to any change
yielding practical valuable takeaways that ensure growth. Flexing helps you move ahead when
you're confronted with a new challenge or simply want to develop a vital skill. It's a journey
that begins with setting a flex goal?stating explicitly what you want to learn and how you want
to grow. Once that flex goal is set you then begin to run experiments solicit feedback from
peers or colleagues and monitor and tweak your progress on the way to achieving your goal.
Flexing can be tailored to each person allowing you to reflect on your own experiences and
incorporate the lessons you learn in the next project you tackle. It's a growth mindset that
will help you become the best version of yourself. Flexing also works with teams and
organizations. Ashford teaches small groups and large how to implement flexing to ensure their
members are ready for new challenges. With more people moving to remote working full-time and
developing new ways of collaborating in teams this warm and practical guide will help every
professional and any organization on the journey to greater effectiveness.
