Leading Agile Work in HR
What is the Leading Agile Work in HR training?
This program helps HR leaders understand how their leadership role changes when teams start working in agile ways. Instead of managing tasks, controlling decisions, or relying on traditional reporting, leaders learn how to create the right conditions for empowered, focused, transparent, and strategically aligned HR work.
The program is designed for leaders who need to support agile HR teams without becoming experts in Scrum mechanics. It focuses on the practical leadership shifts required to enable prioritisation, team autonomy, stakeholder alignment, delivery rhythm, and continuous learning.
Through self-learning, virtual sessions, group work, and practical application, participants explore how to lead agile HR teams in their own organisational context. The program helps leaders identify what they need to stop doing, start doing, clarify, protect, and enable differently.
This is for you if you want to...
- Understand what your role becomes when HR teams work in agile ways.
- Learn how to empower teams without losing visibility or direction.
- Discover how to avoid micromanagement while still staying close to progress, risks, and outcomes.
- Build confidence in how to show up in planning, reviews, demos, and retrospectives.
- Learn how to support Product Owners, prioritisation, and stakeholder trade-offs.
- Identify the leadership behaviours that help agile HR teams succeed in your own organisation.
- Helps HR transformations move faster by enabling leaders to remove blockers and support flow.
- Improves the ability of HR teams to deliver value earlier, more frequently, and with stronger stakeholder feedback.
- Reduces confusion around decision-making, prioritisation, governance, and leadership roles in agile work.
- Strengthens alignment between agile HR teams, business priorities, people strategy, culture, and organisational values.
- Helps protect teams from uncontrolled demand, shifting priorities, and stakeholder noise.
- Builds leadership capability for iterative, feedback-driven, and outcome-focused HR delivery.
Your Leading Agile Work in HR learning journey
How you will learn
The program is experienced through a blended learning journey combining self-learning, group preparation, two live sessions, between-session group work, and post-program application. Participants first build a shared understanding of how agile teams work, then explore what this means for leadership in their own HR context. The live sessions are highly practical and interactive, using discussions, reflection, exercises, case-based conversations, and group work. The learning journey is designed to move from understanding agile teams, to recognising leadership tensions, to applying agile leadership behaviours in real organisational situations.
PRE-LEARNING
How agile HR teams work
PRE-WORK
Agile leadership in our context
SESSION 1
The leadership shift in agile HR
BETWEEN SESSIONS
Leadership blockers and guardrails
SESSION 2
Leading the system around the team
POST-TRAINING
Agile leadership experiment
Agile Context
Agile Ways of workingParticipants complete digital self-learning before the first live session. This introduces the basic logic of agile work, including backlogs, prioritisation, refinement, sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, roles, acceptance criteria, definition of done, and iterative delivery.
LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Build enough team-level agile literacy to understand what leaders are expected to enable, support, and protect.
Agile HR Operating ModelBefore the first session, participants reflect on how agile ways of working may clash with current leadership habits, governance, stakeholder expectations, and HR operating practices.
LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Identify where current leadership behaviours and organisational practices may support or block agile HR teams.
Agile Organizational DevelopmentThis session focuses on the move from traditional leadership to agile leadership. Participants explore the difference between controlling work and creating the conditions for empowered, focused, transparent, and strategically aligned teams.
Key topics include:
What changes in the leader’s role
Old-school leadership versus agile leadership
Transparency without micromanagement
Empowerment with boundaries
Prioritisation as a leadership responsibility
Team capacity, cadence, and realistic delivery expectations
LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Understand the leadership shift required to lead agile HR teams effectively.
Agile Ways of workingBetween the two live sessions, participants work in groups to apply the learning to their own organisation. They identify likely leadership or organisational blockers and define practical leadership guardrails for agile HR teams.
LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Translate agile leadership principles into practical conditions, decision rights, and ways of working for their own HR context.
Agile Organizational DevelopmentThe second live session focuses on how leaders support the wider system around agile HR teams. Participants explore how to lead through governance, stakeholder alignment, agile events, dependencies, quality expectations, and continuous improvement.
Key topics include:
The leader’s role in planning, reviews, demos, and retrospectives
How to show up in reviews without turning them into performance inspections
Supporting retrospectives and continuous improvement
Managing stakeholders and protecting team focus
Enabling cross-team collaboration and dependency management
Clarifying quality, constraints, and non-negotiables
Building the right mindsets and team conditions
LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Learn how to lead around the team without becoming a bottleneck, gatekeeper, or micromanager.
After the program, participants apply one concrete agile leadership behaviour in their real work. This could include changing how they follow up, clarifying decision rights, protecting team focus, supporting a Product Owner, improving stakeholder prioritisation, or showing up differently in a review.
LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Turn the learning into a practical leadership behaviour change and reflect on its impact.
Who is this training for?
- HR leaders responsible for teams moving toward agile ways of working.
- People & Culture leaders supporting agile transformation or new HR operating models.
- HR managers who need to lead empowered, cross-functional, or product-oriented HR teams.
- Leaders working with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, agile teams, or transformation teams.
- Senior HR stakeholders who need to support agile delivery without micromanaging it.
Certification in Leading Agile Work in HR
Participants receive certification after completing the full learning journey and demonstrating practical application of the program content.
To be certified, participants are expected to:
- Attend all live sessions in full, with no absence.
- Complete the required pre-learning and preparation work.
- Participate in group work and submit the agreed group output for review.
Pricing
For remote training
- 7,500 EUR plus VAT for up to 10 participants, each additional participant costs 750 EUR excl. VAT.
- The maximum number of participants is 24
For face-to-face training
- Indicative pricing: 8,900 EUR excl. VAT for up to 10 participants, each additional participant costs 890 EUR plus VAT and travel-related costs.
- For face-to-face delivery, pricing is confirmed separately based on location, travel requirements, and program setup.
