The role of HR and Managers is changing into a more guiding and coaching role for the people in the organisation to be able to perform and be happy. At the same time, the world is getting more complex, and there are few competitive advantages still remaining for companies who want to survive and flourish. One such competitive advantage is to learn faster than the competition so that you can be innovative and creative and invent and produce products and services that customers want and need. But it requires a totally different leadership mindset that let people make mistakes and learn from them. It also requires different principles for HR, who needs to abandon policy making and process mapping for supporting speed, adaptability, and customer focus. It takes cross-functional business teams on all levels to create a learning organisation that has become a prerequisite for success when everybody needs to take shared ownership for the company vision. The old structures with top-down hierarchies, annual budgets linked to fixed performance targets and rewards will not support the speed and Motivation that needs to permeate future workplaces. In this scenario, the future career path for Leaders and HR will be one of the Agile People Coach - a role that aims to create the right conditions for individuals, teams, and the whole organisation to grow and develop and change, as needed to survive.

This talk will describe how Leaders and HR need to change to become Agile People Coaches and what competencies they need to develop for the Future of Work.

In this speech, I would like to concentrate on leadership for an Agile world by mixing theory with telling stories from implemented real cases:

• What is an agile culture, and how you can support creating one

• What does complexity mean, and what are the consequences for your

organisation

• Releasing innovation and creativity to invent the new services that your

customers want and need for the future

• How you can be attractive for young talents and provide a workplace that

would engage and empower people

• How to be competitive when everything (more or less) can be copied

• Some tools and methods to be used to create the right conditions for

people to perform (short overview of Beyond Budgeting, OKRs, Boundary

Spanning)

• Psychological Safety as a platform for a safe and happy workforce who

can serve your customers for sustained profitability

• Forget the agile transformation and enter the agile journey

Guest Speaker: Pia-Maria Thorén

Pia-Maria is the author of Agile People - A Radical Approach for HR and Managers (That Leads to Motivated Employees) and Agile People Picture book and together with 34 Agile People Trainers the book Agile People Principles. She is also the founder of Agile People, which is a global network of people who work to improve workplaces by helping HR and leaders to attain an agile mindset for the future of work by using agile tools, methods, values, and principles. Pia-Maria specialises in helping companies move towards a culture of increased agility through Agile HR, Agile leadership, and Motivation. She is an Agile People Coach and inspiration director.

Host: Luca Leonte

(President, Expert Agile Club)

Luca is a Harvard University alumni, a candidate in Wharton's exclusive general management program, a business transformation expert with over 15 years of field experience, and the President & C.E.O. of Expert Agile Club. Luca has helped Executives, coaches, and professionals all over the world to make the shifts required to transform their companies and master the leadership skills needed to deliver successfully on every project.

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