Is Agility Important?

Question

Why is it important to have agility skills at work? How do you improve this skill?

Answer 1

Well, agility can refer to physical or mental quickness. The importance of an individual's agility depends on the job. Why do you think that some jobs require more physical or mental agility than others? For example, top-managers need to be able to think on their feet in order to make timely decisions that would be disastrous otherwise--financially, etc. To improve one's agility requires experience, trust in one's self, and practice within the specific field or job--or life in general. We sometimes are faced with obstacles or challenges that we will not be faced with very often or are slightly different from each other--all together. We may never see some ever again.

Oh, and by the way, I do agree with being healthy and staying active, which I am. I am part of a swimming membership--which I partake in aqua-aerobics and aqua-jogging, yet I am overweight. So, weight, while it can have a slight handicap, associated in the physical sense, should not be correlated to one's mental agility. This can literally be true in reverse. If someone does hold such an opinion--to correlate mental agility with physical (unless the job requires both), this can handicap their mental agility or decision processes, aside from being generally unfair and biased. That is literally saying that someone with a physical disability has no chance of being a top financial manager of a multi-billion dollar company.

Answer 2

There are a couple of types of agility - large motor and small motor skills.

Small motor is typing and doing stuff with your hands.
Large motor is arms and leg motion - using larger muscles.

Normally, women are better at the small motor skills, whereas men tend to excel at the large motor skills. With anything, practice helps. For typing, filing and such, besides doing that activity, knitting or hand crafts would benefit.
For large motor skills: skating, dancing and martial arts would help.

So apply what you can to what you do.

Answer 3

Agile is to be functional in a physical sense. To have this you need to be healthy and not overweight. I think you mean to be comprehensive. That comes with developing a sharp mind being able to understand what is being told or shown to you and being able to retain it.