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I help HR and business leaders explore the use of agile practices to improve the performance of their organizations. Removing the mystery and confusion about agile to show how it is driving dramatic improvements in non-IT business units/functions such as HR, marketing, R&D, etc. How? By taking an agile-lite version from the IT world and blending it with sound leadership practices to produce EBIT2DA, a series of 7 practices designed to produce significant improvements in less time, with fewer resources and less risk. Many like you are wondering: ''How can we sustain the improvements and changes we made in response to the Covid-19 crisis'' ''We need to build a more resilient organization. Can agile HR help us do that? ''Isn't agile just for IT?'' (Absolutely not!) ''Can agile HR help up-skill and improve the development of our emerging leaders?'' Agile | HR | Coach | Project | Transformation | Change email: wayne@waynetarken.com I’ve been on a 15-year journey to discover why projects, transformations don’t work out and what we can do about it. Tried many things to no avail. But after a stint in software development in IT at IBM and Comcast, I discovered another way. Using my cross-industry background, experience as an executive coach, CHRO, IT project manager/scrum master and adjunct faculty member at Penn, I identified key agile practices from successful enterprise IT projects and adopted 7 to HR (EBIT2DA). To help improve performance and drive successful change management, organizational development and technology transformation initiatives. These agile HR practices are being used to: > Develop a stronger business case > Sustain changes made during Covid-19 disruptions > Maximize executive opt-in > Implement pilot projects > Up-skill practitioners > Improve digital transformations > Lead change management, OD > Improve employee experience; voice of the customer > Create agile performance management practices > Improve teamwork and collaboration > and much more We jointly developed an agile HR readiness survey and toolkit with the support of organizations such as yours, to help you can started / improve your existing projects. Contact me at wayne@waynetarken.com for a free copy and/or any questions about agile HR Agile | HR | AgileHR | Transformation | Upskilling |