Agile learning strategies for sustainable careers: a review and integrated model of feedback-seeking behavior and reflection

Learning agility has been identified as one of the most important 21st century skills for sustainable careers. In recent years, research findings on reflection and feedback-seeking behavior, two closely related behavioral strategies driving learning agility have quickly accumulated. We summarize our current knowledge on these two agile learning strategies, identify ways how organizations can support them and explain how they work as two sides of the same coin. Our review shows that both reflection and feedback-seeking behavior are instrumental in enhancing learning, performance, adaptability, and well-being. However, to fully benefit from their potential, we need to better understand how these two strategies work in concert. To this end, we provide a model that may help integrate reflection and feedback-seeking behavior research in the future.