Agility is a core value of performance excellence.
Agility is most often used in describing athletic ability to move quickly, to be responsive, and to have the strength and stamina to do so consistently over time. Baseball's shortstop must be agile, football's linebacker, and ballet's prima ballerina are powerful examples in sports. Agility is a characteristic that is evident in all aspects of high performing organizations, evident in leadership, in its responsiveness to the needs of staff and faculty, in the efficient alignment and functionality of clearly defined processes, in an organization's ability to produce meaningful data that can be accessed easily and responded to with insights. Agility is not knee jerk responses to external or internal demands or fashions. Agility for organizations, like the athletic comparison to athletes, is the ability to be responsive, quickly, to the needs of our students and stakeholders.