Employee database 
Documents and e-signature 
Reporting and analytics 
Payroll and incidents 
Time and Attendance Software 
Shifts and task list 
Absences & time-off 
Workflows 
Expense management 
Recruitment and selection software 
Onboarding 
Training and procedures 
Internal communication 
Performance assessment software 
HR surveys and forms 
Chatbot 
This week we talk about Agile and how to apply it to Human Resources with Marta Badias: Co-founder of BeUpFlow. She is an expert in implementing the flow model in organizations. In addition, she collaborated with the renowned psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in different projects.
Welcome, Marta. First of all, we would like to know a little more about you and what you are passionate about.
I am an organizational psychologist. I am passionate about people, relationships, that people know their talents and strengths so that they can use them at their maximum level. That people find flow in their work, this state of optimal motivation that makes them flow and reach their maximum level of performance and well-being.
To begin with, explain briefly what Agile is all about.
Agile is much more than a methodology for development that requires speed and flexibility. It is a philosophy that involves a different way of working and organizing. The goal is to develop quality products and services that meet the needs of customers whose priorities are changing at an ever-increasing speed.
How does it benefit companies?
Applying Agile in a company has many benefits, especially for employees. For example:
- Focus on people
- Promotes accountability, autonomy and transparency
- Enables better sizing of projects and minimization of risks
- Facilitates prioritization and decision making
- Fast response to changes in product and service delivery
- Increases added value and predictability of results
- Improved visibility of objectives
- Ability to adapt to changes
- Improved customer satisfaction
And how does Agile impact Human Resources areas?
Agile is very beneficial for Human Resources areas because it helps them to:
- Improve talent attraction and recruitment
- Enhance the employee experience, put the focus on your internal customer
- Putting people at the center
- Being agile in adapting to change
- Be more flexible and adaptable
- Recognize the work and effort of the collaborators.
"The goal is to develop quality products and services that meet the needs of customers whose priorities are changing at an ever-increasing speed."
In line with what you said in the previous question, how does Agile help improve the employee experience?
Agile helps improve the employee experience because they can:
- Learning to work in a self-organized way
- Establishing trusting relationships
- Increasing your responsibility and decision making
- Generate flat structures that promote personal and team empowerment.
So what does a company need to start applying Agile?
Initiate a change of mindset. Analyze what is working for them and what they believe could be improved. Get trained. Apply it in a pilot and learn from it. Change leadership to one that encourages agility, that empowers teams. Work on transparency, simplicity, minimize bureaucracy and optimize processes. Put the customer at the center.
Could you give us very brief steps for Human Resources areas to start transforming their traditional methodology and become more agile?
- First, that they themselves feel that they are the ideal people to evolve the culture of their company towards more adaptive, more agile models and that they want to lead a model that will have an impact on the business.
- Training and expertise.
- Start implementing it in your own area, that of PEOPLE to be the example in your organization.
- Enthuse the people in your organization by explaining the benefits of Agile.
We talked with Marta Badia this Thursday, February 2 at 4 pm (Spanish time) about the benefits of applying Agile in the Human Resources areas in an interview that you will be able to watch through our YouTube channel.
