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Choices™
Feedback Report
Introduction Choices™
Choices™ is a research-based measure of Learning Agility—defined as the ability and willingness to learn from
experience, and subsequently apply that learning to perform successfully under new or first-time conditions.
Learning Agility is different from the kinds of learning that help us in memory, analysis, and comprehending new
information. Rather, it relates to learning new personal behaviors or ways of viewing events and problems.
Research has shown that Learning Agility is more predictive of broad leadership potential than intelligence. One
reason for this is that many of us are more likely to rely on our successful habits from the past rather than going to
the trouble of creating new ones. Under the pressure of change or first-time situations for us, we stick to our comfort
zone, repeating what has worked before or switching to a different past solution, but not a new strategy.
Report Overview
This report represents the results of a Choices™ assessment. The format is known as multi-rater, therefore the
results will include responses from several rater groups. Raters completed a survey of the 81 items that represent
behaviors associated with Learning Agility.
The items that comprise the survey are sorted into five areas, or Factors. Within each Factor, items are further
grouped into Dimensions to add texture and help you home in on more specific behavioral themes. This Dimension
level analysis will be beneficial as you consider where best to focus development of your Learning Agility. The
Choices™ Factor and Dimension structure is illustrated below:
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Rater Groups
Your report includes ratings from several people who are grouped into categories based on their relationship with
you. The table below lists the most common rater groups that you might expect to see in your report. (Note: Your
report results may not include all these groups.)
When you and all other raters completed the survey, you responded to this question: How would you describe/rate
the participant (or yourself) on this behavior?
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Your Overall Learning Agility Summary is presented first, including how each of the rater groups compared.
Next, you will find your Factor Profile, a Factor-level Learning Agility Profile which illustrates how your scores across
the five main areas of Learning Agility compare to each other.
Since meaningful development of Learning Agility occurs at a deeper level than the more general Factor context,
the next sections of your report focus on the 27 Dimensions of Learning Agility. These sections include a Dimension
Overview and a Dimension Summary. The Dimension Overview illustrates the overall Choices™ structure and
highlights your top third and bottom third rated Dimensions. The Dimension Summary lists each of the 27
Dimensions in rank order from highest rated to lowest rated (based on percentile).
*To further aid in interpreting your results, your report may also include a subset of the individual items from the
survey—specifically, the highest and lowest rated items from the combined All Others rater group.
**Finally, if any raters submitted written comments, those would be listed in the Comments by Raters section.
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To enable you to understand your score relative to others, scores have been converted into percentiles. The
percentiles are based on norms from a global sample of nearly 6,000 organizational leaders and professionals
collected between 2007 and 2012. For example, a percentile score of 60 indicates that this individual is equal or
higher on a factor of Learning Agility than 60% of other individuals who have taken this assessment. Similarly, a
percentile score of 40 indicates that this individual is equal or higher on a factor of Learning Agility than 40% of
other individuals who have taken this assessment.
When examining the Choices™ assessment results, it is helpful to understand your relative highs and lows across
the 27 Dimensions of Learning Agility in the context of your current job and career goals. Recognize that
characteristics associated with higher scores may be desirable for certain jobs and organizations, but not all.
Research indicates that Learning Agility is very beneficial for broad leadership roles and is also helpful in many, but
not all, other situations.
Finally, because Learning Agility can be developed, if you aspire to the kinds of jobs or the characteristics where
having higher levels of Learning Agility would be beneficial, you can choose to focus on growing and practicing
those behaviors.
The graph below illustrates your Overall Learning Agility today. This percentile score was derived from the
cumulative ratings from All Other raters across the 81 Choices™ items.
This graph illustrates the distribution of scores across the different rater groups. This is helpful in understanding how
different groups perceive your relative Learning Agility.
The Factor-level Learning Agility Profile illustrates how your scores compare to each other across the five main
factors of Learning Agility. The percentile scores below represent the composite ratings from All Other rater groups
(but NOT including the Self rating). This profile helps reveal areas where you are currently demonstrating Learning
Agility more (or less) often than others.
If you often demonstrate these Learning If you demonstrate these Learning Agility
Agility behaviors, you are likely to… behaviors less often, you may…
SELF- Reflect on your experiences, clearly understand Be satisfied with who you are, like to focus on the
AWARENESS your personal strengths and weaknesses, actively present, value people who accept others as they
seek feedback, gain insights from missteps are, believe you know yourself better than others
MENTAL Be comfortable with complexity and ambiguity, find Value conventional wisdom, focus on what is readily
AGILITY solutions to tough problems, have broad interests, apparent, seek mostly error-proof solutions, prefer
be highly curious when things are clearly defined
PEOPLE Work effectively with and through a diversity of Treat everyone the same, favor harmony, prefer
AGILITY people, be politically agile, adjust your approach to people you have a lot in common with, do and say
the situation, manage people conflict well things that align with your personal values
CHANGE Never be satisfied with status quo, introduce novel Like it when things are settled, view unvetted ideas
AGILITY perspectives, experiment with new ideas, willingly with skepticism, honor tradition, ensure consensus
take the heat of others’ resistance to change before initiating change
RESULTS Get the most out of limited resources, instill Prefer not to be in the spotlight, get discouraged
AGILITY confidence in others, not give up easily, build when things don’t go as planned, like working on
high-performing teams your own, prefer predictable courses of action
The Dimension Summary provides a rank order presentation of your current skill level on the 27 Dimensions of
Learning Agility. Results are listed from highest or strongest or best strength to lowest or weakest or most serious
development need based on the average percentile score from all of the respondents who completed the survey
(but NOT including the Self rating).
To best understand your results, concentrate on the one-third highest (your Learning Agility strengths) and the
one-third lowest (your potential Learning Agility development opportunities) and look for patterns and themes.
Potential Overuse: Depending on your individual results, in a few instances, you may see the term "Potential
Overuse" associated with one of your higher-rated Dimensions. Research shows that if you demonstrate a Learning
Agility strength without regard to demonstrating other, complementary, behaviors, what started as a strength could
end up getting in the way of your effectiveness. For example, by balancing being a fast Connector with staying alert
to whether people have caught up with you by being an Agile Communicator, you keep your Connector skill from
becoming a barrier to effectiveness.
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RANK DIMENSION PERCENTILE 10th 33rd 50th 67th 90th Items
Dimension 4: Emotion
3
Management (Self-Awareness)
5 91st 0%
Dimension 2: Feedback
4
Oriented (Self-Awareness)
5 89th 0%
Dimension 9: Essence
6
(Mental Agility)
5 86th 0%
Dimension 5: Self-Knowledge
6
(Self-Awareness)
5 86th 7%
Unrated
RANK DIMENSION PERCENTILE 10th 33rd 50th 67th 90th Items
Dimension 8: Connector
15 76th 0%
(Mental Agility)
Unrated
RANK DIMENSION PERCENTILE 10th 33rd 50th 67th 90th Items
Dimension 6: Inquisitive
21
(Mental Agility)
6 67th 3%
Dimension 24:
22 Resourcefulness 6 65th 3%
(Results Agility)
This section provides a subset of the individual items from the survey. The section lists the highest rated and lowest
rated items as rated by all the respondents (but NOT including the Self rating).
Highest Rated Items: Items are listed in descending rank order from the highest rated item to a maximum of 10
items (possibly fewer, depending on ties in ranking.)
Lowest Rated Items: Items are listed in descending rank order ending with the lowest rated item to a maximum of
10 items (possibly fewer, depending on ties in ranking.)
Because this section focuses on item level data, unlike the previous sections, results are displayed by rating (1–5)
rather than percentiles. You will note the rating scale used in the survey is reflected at the top of each page.
Interpreting themes by analyzing which items received the highest and lowest relative ratings from respondents can
help you better understand how you are demonstrating specific behaviors of Learning Agility today.
example of this
Less well/often
The clearest
most people
Better/more
About like
than most
Not at all
like this
Rank Item Mean 1 2 3 4 5
example of this
Less well/often
The clearest
most people
Better/more
About like
than most
Not at all
like this
Rank Item Mean 1 2 3 4 5
This section lists the comments offered by you and your raters. Some raters will take the time to try to help you
understand your report by including their thoughts about you, your Learning Agility strengths and areas for
development.
Look for themes and similar statements. Similar or repeated statements have a higher probability of being true.
n Clearly thrives on learning and reflecting on their experiences. Pulls what worked and didn't and will in turn
try to use those lessons elsewhere. The extent to which those lessons are modified is not as extensive as
could be which is why I didn't rate many items as the clearest example.
Works hard to learn and read the audience, but can't always quite translate into their language, though
comes very close.
n Listen to others. Delegate and empower people. Prospective and easy to work with.
n This person is incredibly inspiring and motivating to work with. Every conversation I have with them
stretches my thinking and helps me see things from a different point of view. They see things that others
don´t. Their ability to pluck ideas and information from their mental database is incredible. Their generous
in sharing their knowledge and experience and non-protective of their own ideas, in that they are happy to
see others develop them further.
n This person presents a steady and open leadership style. They are quick to offer credit to others in the
organization and shows strong empathy for those who work for them. They are open to constructive
discussion about their team and own style. From a subject matter standpoint, they are perceived as very
strong, appropriately opinionated, and open. Has shown remarkable poise (as has their team) during many
leadership and strategy changes and has been steady in their leadership of their team throughout. From a
developmental standpoint, they might benefit from a more assertive approach when dealing with other parts
of the organization and in situations where there is in execution mode. There are times they are perceived
as not moving as quickly as they could or is too cautious.
n Serious, committed, and dependable. Focused on details, sometimes at the expense of the bigger picture.
Extremely composed and sensitive to others.
n Has been leading very effectively despite high level of ambiguity, uncertainty, and what seems like
constantly changing conditions in our work setting.
One of the best 'people readers' I've ever known. Can forecast how a person will act in a situation before it's
even happened.
Always surprises me with knowledge on seemingly unrelated subjects from baseball to guitar playing to
alternative 80s music to gourmet cooking.
Learning Agility is much more than just an abstract concept. It is characterized by certain behaviors and preferences
—both in how we go about our work and the choices we make on and off the job. Because it’s a set of behaviors, you
can choose to develop these qualities in yourself and help build them in others.
We trust you will find value in gaining a clearer understanding of what it means to be learning agile and how,
depending on your career and life aspirations, Learning Agility can help you achieve what you’re looking for.
Now that you know more about your current Learning Agility, you can start to think about how best to develop it.
Here are some additional tools that can help you on your journey to explore and potentially build your Learning
Agility.
Development Resources
FYI™ for Learning Agility is designed for any motivated person seeking to develop skills that lead to
increased Learning Agility. It includes 200+ improvement strategies that you can use today on or
off the job. Each chapter addresses development in the dimensions of Learning Agility and
includes tips, recommendations, and suggested resources to learn more to help enhance your
Learning Agility.
Becoming an Agile Leader: Know What to Do…When You Don’t Know What to Do explores the five
key characteristics, or factors, of Learning Agility. Spotlighting well-known leaders from business
and the world stage, Becoming an Agile Leader is filled with more than 70 practical development
tips you can start using today to increase your own agility and help ensure success in those new,
challenging assignments. So you will know what to do…when you don’t know what to do.
With Becoming an Agile Leader: A Guide to Learning From Your Experiences, you can explore the
formative experiences that shaped the learning agile leaders profiled in the book Becoming an
Agile Leader. This practical guide lets you reflect on your own experiences, past and present, and
includes a comprehensive listing of on- and off-the-job experiences that will help you plan for
assignments that build Learning Agility.
The Becoming an Agile Leader Reflections App can help you achieve greater self-awareness
through capturing on-the-spot insights and reflections. The Becoming an Agile Leader Reflections
App provides inspiring, thought-provoking quotes related to the Learning Agility factors that help
you easily reflect, document, and transfer lessons from your experiences.