Business Agility for HR and Culture Change

This fun engaging program guides your HR & Culture Change teams as they journey into relevant Lean & Agile principles and practices. Business Agility is just as relevant in the executive boardrooms as it is in working teams. We draw lessons from early business leaders like Edward Deming, Taiichi Ohno, and Jeff Sutherland… all the way to modern-day experts like Henrik Kniberg, Leffingwell, David J. Anderson, and Niklas Modig.

This customizable program focuses on applying principles to evolve practices in your organization. Modern Business Agility is principle-based, outcome-focused, and people-powered. It integrates not competes with existing operating approaches in your business. More importantly, it is able to achieve both short-term business / customer results AND long-term organizational culture change.

Principles Explored

Teams-centric approach to HR & culture change
Incremental evolution over massive change
Performance creation over performance appraisal
Relentless staff training & team growth
Strategic partnerships over reactive management
Conflict prevention over conflict management

Practices Explored

Continuous team member performance feedback
HR as a team-consumable service
Recruitment for empowered teams
Dynamic team role canvas (instead of JD)
Team-based goal-setting / OKRs
Kaizen as sustainable transformation approach
Role clarity via team agreements (instead of RACI)

Business Agility Action Plan

Analysis & 12-month Evolution Strategy
6-month Pivot Execution Plan (including risks)
6-month Staff Training & Communications Plan
Plan ZigZags (alternate paths to success)
New team norms & agreements

Learning Goals

Mindset: Deep understanding of Lean Agile Principles & their context
Application: Develop relevant practices to accelerate your business objectives
Practical: Define fast adoption path for new practices

Intended Participants

Human Resources Directors / Managers
Lean Agile coaches in your organization
Maximum 12 participants per session

Course Formats & Duration

Virtual 2 X 6-hour workshop (two full-days)
Virtual 4 X 3-hours workshop (four half-days)
On-site 2 X 6-hour workshop (client provides location)

Prerequisites

None. No previous knowledge of Agile / Lean / Scrum or business-level agility is required. However, basic understanding of Agile practices is highly recommended.