Learning Agility: Discover the Learning Potential of Your Employees

Organizations today face rapid changes, labor market shortages, and the need for flexible, learnable employees. In this context, one competency is gaining significant importance: Learning Agility. Cebir has developed a concrete testing approach to objectively and scientifically map this agility and learning potential.

What is Learning Agility?

Learning Agility is the ability to learn from one’s own experiences and the willingness to successfully apply those lessons in new and challenging situations. Individuals with high Learning Agility actively seek feedback, reflect on their behavior, experiment with new approaches, and adapt quickly.

Learning Agility is typically divided into five factors:

  • Mental Agility: the ability to switch quickly and think outside the box

  • People Agility: openness to others, constructive in collaboration

  • Change Agility: curiosity, innovation, and focus on renewal

  • Results Agility: result-oriented and resourceful, even in new situations

  • Self-awareness: self-insight, eagerness to learn, and willingness to adjust

Why is Learning Agility Important for Your Organization?

Learning Agility is more than a buzzword. Research shows that this competency is strongly linked to leadership success, growth potential, and broad employability. In times of labor market tightness, it allows organizations to select not only based on experience but also on developable potential.

Additionally, Learning Agility helps to respond quickly to external changes, such as technological evolutions or crisis situations. Agile employees adapt faster and can be deployed broadly.

Cebir's Testing Approach

Cebir has assembled a concrete test battery that reliably measures all aspects of Learning Agility. This combination is built from existing and validated psychometric instruments, such as:

  • CBFT: personality questionnaire

  • FUTURFIT: measures motivation and development readiness

  • BCOM/LCQ: self-assessment of competencies (for employees/leaders)

  • SCV Coll/SCV Leader: social skills tests

  • LDS: leadership style

  • INTEL OL: reasoning ability

Each factor of Learning Agility is measurable through multiple dimensions in these tools. For a reliable assessment, Cebir advises basing each aspect on at least two underlying measurements.

Applications in Recruitment and Development

Cebir advises using Learning Agility in two domains:

  1. Recruitment and Selection
    Using a test battery, total scores and subscores can be calculated, linked to job requirements. Employers can see where candidates have growth potential and which aspects best align with the team’s values or needs.

  2. Personal Development
    Learning Agility can be a tool to make employees aware of their development points. Through training or coaching, targeted work can be done on flexibility, learning ability, and leadership behavior.

Culture Makes the Difference

The learning potential of employees only manifests in a supportive organizational culture. Feedback moments, autonomy, room for experimentation, and psychological safety are essential. Cebir also assists organizations in analyzing and improving these conditions.

Why choose Cebir?

Cebir combines 35 years of experience in psychometrics with a strong, scientifically grounded approach. Our tools are adaptive, multilingual, and modular. We work closely with our clients to make Learning Agility concrete and applicable within their specific context.

Author

Cebir Research Team

With over 35 years of expertise, CEBIR provides scientifically validated psychometric tests to optimize recruitment and strengthen teams. This article summarizes research and abstracts written by our Research Team.