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Agile L&D

A Toolkit to Improve Organizational Learning and Drive Performance

Natal Dank
Kogan Page, 2024
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Agile methodologies expert Natal Dank posits that hybrid working and AI integration lie at the heart of Agile transformation for L&D. She explains how Agile experimentation encourages quick learning and adaptation, which fuel organizational change; how Agile’s focus on flexibility, customer-centric value, prototyping, and continuous feedback fosters resilience; and why embracing Agile’s cycle of “planning, doing, reviewing, and adapting” ensures incremental value delivery. When L&D focuses on user experiences and empathy, Dank writes, it uncovers solutions that address real business needs.

Summary

L&D and people-focused strategies demand Agile transformation.

Today’s competitive, disrupted, and digitalized business landscape is transforming employee learning, career development, and upskilling into essential strategic assets. This shift demands a blend of learning design, data utilization, digital capabilities, and people skills. Modern challenges, such as hybrid working, AI integration, employee well-being, inclusion, and persistent skills gaps, form the core of the organizational strategy.

The Agile methodology, which helps companies solve complex problems and adapt to volatile markets, plays a crucial role in transforming organizations. Agile principles, such as product-led design, homocentric approaches, “T-shaped people” and teams, experimentation, and impactful delivery, drive L&D and teams to create rich employee experiences. This approach shifts organizations from siloed models to multifunctional teams skilled in “human-centered design,” experimentation, and data analytics, thus fostering agility and resilience.

Agile focuses on flexibility and customer-centric value.

Agile emphasizes “customer-centricity,” including...

About the Author

L&D expert Natal Dank is known for her innovative approach to integrating Agile methodologies into people strategies. She also cowrote Agile HR with Riina Hellstrom. 

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