“It’s all about people” – Agile People accelerate the worldwide agile transformation through spreading the values of customer collaboration, energized people, learning organization, inspiring leadership and rapid change to all areas of businesses and organizations.
If you have great people on your team, you are more likely to succeed, regardless of the tools. The reverse is also true: You may have the best process and most expensive tools, but without highly skilled and motivated individuals, success will be difficult.
By focusing on people and freeing your teams from a process and structure-led response to disruption, your organisation can develop a culture that thrives in complex, unpredictable and rapidly changing environments.
In a time when we need agility in business, we need agility in life. We need agile people.
Deep down in the charts, graphs and bullet points showing how to change an organization, descriptions of agile transformation note that employees who are asked to adopt a radically new way of working need to adopt a radically new way of thinking and feeling about work, including the ability to reinvent, the courage to fail fast and the empathy to work well in diverse teams. They need to communicate constantly, be accountable, be customer-focused and above all be open to change. Are your employees mentally and emotionally equipped with the resilience to handle this radical change?
Collaboration among teams is a defining characteristic of organizational agility, and personal agility strengthens when employees practice resilience in collaboration with a like-minded community. Good teamwork is mutually supportive.
Among all the charts and bullet points and models pointing the way toward agile organizations, let’s remember that organizations are made of people. Make them resilient in the face of change first.
