Sep 15, 2026 · 38 min · 7 segments
When things change at work, how good are you at changing how you think or act in response? In the second part of our No Regret Skills mini-series, Helen and Sarah turn their attention to adaptability…
Sarah EllisHostHelen TupperHost
... my no regret skill? Well, one, I can hear people talking about it a lot at the moment.
So actually, last week we did talk about, you know, that kind of trade-off between like hot skills, like what is tr- almost like trending right now-
Does this go beyond just of the moment? I felt like it did, and the reason for that is I was looking at the World Economic Forum work again around skills-
... and actually, they don't use the word adaptability, but they just use three words that sort of mean adaptability.
Do you know what? I nearly went for agility instead of adaptability, but I was like, actually, no, I do think adaptability feels consistently useful.
I was playing around with like actually using Claude with trying to get to a really simple definition, um, of what it, what is this skill, and it's, uh, the one that I liked the most that was sort of a bit, a bit half me, half Claude.
[laughs] Yeah, so the definition that I liked was the skill of changing how you think or act when things change.
... my no regret skill? Well, one, I can hear people talking about it a lot at the moment.
So actually, last week we did talk about, you know, that kind of trade-off between like hot skills, like what is tr- almost like trending right now-
Does this go beyond just of the moment? I felt like it did, and the reason for that is I was looking at the World Economic Forum work again around skills-
... and actually, they don't use the word adaptability, but they just use three words that sort of mean adaptability.
Do you know what? I nearly went for agility instead of adaptability, but I was like, actually, no, I do think adaptability feels consistently useful.
I was playing around with like actually using Claude with trying to get to a really simple definition, um, of what it, what is this skill, and it's, uh, the one that I liked the most that was sort of a bit, a bit half me, half Claude.
[laughs] Yeah, so the definition that I liked was the skill of changing how you think or act when things change.
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