Pia - Maria Thorén - HRLeaders 2017

1. Agile HR in a Nutshell
HR-Leaders Conference 2017-06-15
Pia-Maria Thoren, GreenBullet

3. Pia-Maria Thorén
PIA-MARIA THOREN
FOCUS AREAS: PEOPLE &
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT, AGILE
HR & LEADERSHIP, HUMAN MOTIVATION
• CONSULTANT & OWNER
GREENBULLET SOLUTIONS SINCE
2008
• HYBRIDE BETWEEN IT, HR, FINANCE
AND MANAGEMENT
• CONSULTANT SINCE 1994: WORKED A
LOT WITH TALENT MANAGEMENT AT
BIG INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES
• WRITING A BOOK ABOUT AGILE HR
”NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE. THE
IMPOSSIBLE JUST TAKES A LITTLE
LONGER"
Winston Churchill

4. Another
description of
me: My Reiss
Motivation
Profile

5. Worklife back then

6. Frederick Taylor: scientific management

9. People dislike work, find it boring
and will avoid it if they can
People need to work and want
to take an interest in it. Under
right conditions, they enjoy it
Attitude
Direction
Responsibility
Motivation
Creativity
People must be forced or
bribed to make the right effort
Most people have very little
creativity – except when it comes to
getting around rules
People are motivated mainly by
money and fear about their job
security
People would rather be directed
than accept responsibility (which
they avoid)
People will direct themselves
towards goals that they accept
People will seek and accept
responsibility under the right
conditions
Under the right conditions,
people are motivated by the
desire to realize their own
potential
Creativity and ingenuity are
widely distributed and grossly
under-used

10. What is Engagement?
11
Employee satisfaction
HOW?
Contribution to
the organisation
WHAT?
Continuous
improvement
through creating
prerequisites for
engagement

12. Modern Agile

13. Adapt to the reality instead of
following a detailed plan

14. #norecipe

15. Agile principles
• Trust
• Transparency
• Delegated responsibility and decision making
• Self organizing teams
• Trial and error – experiment and fail fast
• Sustainable pace
• Continuous improvement and learning
• Visualization

17. Self organizing

18. ”Now we are not so
flexible anymore,
since HR has mapped
out their processes.”
Development Manager

20. Agile HR: from - to
Develop policies, rules and standards >
Deliver programs & processes to
customers >
HR Specialists OR HR Generalists OR
HR Admins >
Individual work >
Functional HR / specialist area >
Jobs & positions >
HR Projects >
Promotions and bonus programs >
Deliver programs & processes >
One size fits all
Having the ”HR recipe”
Human view X
Support flexibility, speed and
collaboration
Involve customer in delivery
T-shaped HR people who can take on
many different HR roles
Teamwork (crossfunctional)
Value stream based HR
Playing many different roles
Stable, high performing teams
Salary formulas and profit sharing (can
be performance related)
Supporting the organization to perform
No-size fits all
Experimentation
Human view Y

21. Why HR need to lead the
transformation

22. Leadership for agile organizations

24. It’s time to get off the rocking horse
and learn how to handle a real horse

27. • A year is too long!
• No proactivity - Focus on judging
the past
• Does the boss know best?
• Connected to salary – leads to
sandbagging and lower set goals
• Sub optimizing effects breed
competition – not cooperation
• Focus on the wrong things (just
result – not behaviour)

28. But what should
we do
instead???

30. • OKR:s are transparent
• They are not used for judging
performance
• They are not connected to
bonus
• They drive collaboration and
learning

31. Agile learning
”Agile is built on the understanding that
people learn in small chunks”

32. T-shaped competence

34. The fast learner advantage

35. Recruitment: From
competence to values
and motivation

36. Visualize recruitment with Kanban

37. Employee engagement surveys
that deliver instant value

38. Happiness index

39. How to start with agile HR?
Start where you are, start small and simple

40. October 23-24 2017 http://agilepeoplesweden.com

42. Thank you!
pia-maria.thoren@greenbullet.se
Twitter: @piamia2
Linkedin: se.linkedin.com/in/piamia/
Web: www.greenbullet.se
Phone: 0046 763056134