This month’s The HR World webinar took as its focus agility and how businesses can develop and maintain these skills among its workforce.
Sponsored by Agility in Mind, a business dedicated to giving companies the agile skills they need by changing the behaviours and mindsets of their employees, the webinar featured input from Paul Grew, Head of Coaching at Agile in Mind, Elaine Hunt, Global Head of Talent Development and Culture for Apex Group Ltd and Sophie Manifold, HR and Talent Leader currently consulting for the British Red Cross.
Both HR leaders were able to give an insight into how agility worked within their business. Apex Group has gone through rapid growth and change and being agile has helped their workforce continually adapt and respond to the changing opportunities. Meanwhile Sophie drew from her experience having worked across a number of different organisations and sectors where the agile approach has had a great impact.
The discussion covered a wide range of details around the use of agile skills and their impact on an organisation’s work. It was agreed that having come out of the pandemic and still having to deal with diverse world events required organisations to be ready to adapt to change, but at the same time, agile skills were important for creating value for employers – enabling employees to question how and why they did certain things and empowering them to make positive change.
Bringing agile skills into an organisation certainly requires work to ensure the business leaders understand the approach and will support it, but there is also a sense that companies need to stay on the ball and provide continuous interventions to keep those skills relevant and up to date.
Bringing agile skills into the workplace means ensuring those skills work on an individual basis as well as for teams and ultimately across the whole workplace. However it is clear that support and buy in must come from the top for agility to have traction and deliver real impact.
After the webinar our speakers followed up with questions we didn’t get chance to cover in the session: Q&A: Leading With Agility
