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  • Just Leading Solutions Expands into Brazil to Support Advanced Agility

    Just Leading Solutions (JLS) is proud to announce its expansion into the Brazilian market, further solidifying our commitment to enhancing Advanced Agility globally. It allows us to better serve local and global companies with operations in Brazil by providing them with unparalleled expertise and innovative solutions. Read the English Version Leia a versão em Português…

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  • JLS Participates in Global Annual Study on the State of Agile in Procurement & Supply

    A few months ago, Just Leading Solutions (JLS) proudly participated in the global annual study on the State of Agile in Procurement & Supply, conducted by the Lean Agile Procurement (LAP) Alliance. This comprehensive report explores the current landscape of agility within procurement and supply chain management, providing valuable insights into the evolving practices and…

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  • Fabiola Eyholzer’s Insightful Interview with Agile Innovation Leaders.

    Fabiola Eyholzer, a pioneer and thought leader in Agile HR and Co-Founder of Just Leading Solutions (JLS) – Advanced Agility, engaged in an exclusive interview with Ula Ojiaku on Agile Innovation Leaders. In this insightful conversation, Fabiola shares her expert perspectives on Leveraging Agile and Agility in HR. Fabiola discusses the transformative concept of Business…

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  • Protected: Agile HR Transformation Roadmap: Six Steps to Success

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  • Voices of the Future Book has been released! Featuring Fabiola Eyholzer Board Executive Advisor at JLS.

    This week, Voices of the Future released their much-anticipated book, featuring a compelling article by renowned thought leader Fabiola Eyholzer. The book marks a significant milestone in the exploration of future trends and perspectives across various domains.

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  • Fabiola Eyholzer, Board Executive Advisor at JLS, has been invited to Voices of the Future by Tariq Qureishy!

    We are pleased to announce that Fabiola Eyholzer, JLS Board Executive Advisor, has recently been featured on the esteemed Voices of the Future podcast hosted by Tariq Qureishy.

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  • Scaled Agile Inc. Announcement – November 1st 2023

    Scaled Agile, Inc., the provider of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®), announced the launch of the Agile HR Explorer (AHRE) Training via SAFe Studio yesterday.

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  • Why HR is Going Agile in 2023

    Maurice Conti argued all the way back in 2017 that the world of work is going to change more in the next 20 years than in the past 2,000. 5 years in, his prediction is bearing out. The future of work is fast on its way and HR can’t simply be passive bystanders in these…

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  • Experience Report | Talent Enablement Guide for an Agile Organization in FinTech

    This experience report shares the story of a group of dedicated People Developers at an international FinTech company and how they took their Talent Management approach to the next level through a contemporary Talent Enablement Guide (TEG).

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  • Top 10 HR Trends 2022

    The world of work has change beyond recognition and there is no going back to a pre-COVID world. As companies are getting ready to rework work for a hybrid future, employees are taking stock. They are exhausted and disconnected and how the company treated them during the pandemic will determine their next step.

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  • Top 10 HR Trends 2021

    The pandemic has left us with unprecedented challenges. More than ever, HR is confronted with embracing the future of work and taking the lead in co-creating the new normal. Here is a guide to the most likely trends to affect HR in 2021.

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  • The People Runway of the ART

    The people runway consists of two things. The combined strengths, abilities, skills, and experiences of the current workforce. And its ability to fully utilize and leverage those for smooth and continuous delivery on current and emerging business initiatives. It takes a clear commitment and continual investment to build and maintain a people runway that will…

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  • Does Agile Fare Better In A Pandemic?

    The call for more agility is not new. Agile made the news with one success story after the next long before the pandemic. It now begs the question: Did agile organizations and teams indeed fare better during the pandemic? Were they really better equipped to address the myriad challenges?

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  • Zoom Doesn’t Equal Agile

    I cannot count the number of times recently I have come across news articles and comments from companies and whole industries and sectors bragging about how ‘Agile’ they were in their response to the pandemic. And I am sorry to say; these articles make me roll my eyes.

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  • SimCorp Podcast – Agile People & HR

    Fabiola Eyholzer and fellow guest Malene Krohn in a podcast on Agile People & HR, hosted by Neil Cook, SimCorp.

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  • HR Revolution Middle East

    Fabiola Eyholzer in an interview with Mahmoud Mansi, the founder and chairperson of the HR Revolution Middle East magazine..

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  • 6 Months and 1 Pandemic Later – A Reflection on our Trends 2020

    2020 is certainly not shaping out as anticipated, and embracing a more dynamic and complex world is no longer a choice for HR, but a necessity. We have long been faced with major challenges, and to a certain extent we have even responded to some of them. But the global pandemic has accelerated the need…

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  • Agile 100 – HR as Driver of Innovation

    Innovation is the pulse of any flourishing business, and yet many companies still have a narrow view on innovation: one that lacks vision and strategy while underestimating the role of HR in creating a sustainable culture of innovation..

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  • SHRM Recertification Provider

    JLS training courses are eligible to all SHRM-CPs or SHRM-SPCs for professional development recertification credits. We are honored to announce this accolade as we share a mutual commitment with SHRM to elevate the HR profession and create better workplaces where both employees and employers may excel together.

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  • The Wolfpack’s Way to HR Agility

    Fabiola shared the story of how the university’s Human Resources team started with humble beginnings and now leads the pack among higher education institutions for HR Agility.

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  • Agile Consortium 2020

    Innovation is the pulse of any flourishing business, and yet many companies still have a narrow view on innovation: one that lacks vision and strategy while underestimating the role of HR in creating a sustainable culture of innovation.

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  • Agile in the Zone

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  • Interview HR Trends in 2020

    Fabiola Eyholzer in an interview with Christian Bjerre Nielsen from uQualio. The interview is based on a presentation Fabiola gave at a meetup hosted by SimCorp in Copenhagen in November 2019.

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  • How Human Resources will drive Business Agility

    For Fabiola Eyholzer, it’s not a question of whether Human Resources (HR) departments should invest in agile, but whether they can afford not to. HR has the unique chance to humanize work and drive business agility – if they are willing to embark on a transformation journey that will shake HR to the core.

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  • Fabiola Eyholzer on Changing Thinking in HR

    Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Fabiola Eyholze at the Agile People conference in Stockholm, Sweden, about the need to radically change HR thinking and practices in organisations to enable creativity and productivity.

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  • How Unconscious Bias Hurts Innovation | Women in Agile

    Fabiola Eyholzer, Chief Executive Officer of Just Leading Solutions in an interview with SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse for “AgileAmped”. The interview was recorded at the 2019 Business Agility Conference in New York City.

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  • OBJEKTSpektrum Article “HR & The World of Work 4.0”

    Fabiola Eyholzer, Chief Executive Officer of Just Leading Solutions shares her insights on HR and the new world of work in OBJEKTSpektrum – the leading German magazine for IT-Management and Software-Engineering

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  • Co-opetition in a Connected World – Our Approach to Business Partnerships

    Co-opetition describes how competing organizations work together with gracious professionalism by putting collaboration first and competition second. The concept is rooted in Game Theory and is evolving as the new way of doing business. Our business partners at JLS are disruptors in their field and revolutionize HR and organizations with innovative and groundbreaking solutions. Because…

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  • 5 HR Assumptions That Don’t Work in An Agile World

    The new world of work revolves around autonomy, self-organization, teams, networks, openness, innovation, self-responsibility, ability to learn, diversity and adaptability. It challenges us to rethink our thinking and behavior and align it to the needs of a digitalized world.

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  • TalentSumerization – The Employee Experience in Agile Enterprises

    Everything about work is changing at an accelerated pace and employees start to think about work like consumers. Unsurprisingly, “Consumerization of Human Resources (HR)” – or “TalentSumerization” – has been identified as one of the most defining and disruptive trends of the industry. Enterprises who capitalize on the Agile | HR power due (with Agile4HR…

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  • Boost Business Agility with Contemporary HR Practices

    Boost Business Agility with Contemporary HR Practices | Fabiola Eyholzer – at Business Agility 2017 The podcast was published by InfoQ

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  • Why Agile Transformations Fail – Episode 15 with Fabiola Eyholzer

    Why Agile Transformations Fail | Fabiola Eyholzer – at the Global Scrum Gathering 2017

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  • Scope of Success – Episode: HR Strategies to Leverage Growth – Fabiola Eyholzer

    Fabiola Eyholzer, Chief Executive Officer of Just Leading Solutions in an interview for Scope of Success. The interview was broadcasted from the Big Apple Scrum Day 2017 in New York City.

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  • Consumerization of Human Resources

    Employees in general – and digital natives in particular – are no longer only looking for a career: They seek an experience. They want to be included in shaping their workspace and they certainly want a voice – not only when it comes to their own career development, but across the whole HR value chain.…

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  • Top 5 Mistakes to Avoid

    A new year is underway and with it comes another set of challenges. This post will look at the top 5 mistakes to avoid by Human Resources in order to set the course for success.

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  • “How Agile Is Revolutionizing Human Resources“

    Fabiola Eyholzer, Chief Executive Officer of Just Leading Solutions in an interview with Melanie Haiken for “Agile VOX” magazine by Scrum Alliance. The interview was published in Issue 2 | Fall 2016.

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  • Agile HR with SAFe ®

    Lean-Agile development with the Scaled Agile Framework ® (SAFe) reinvents the way we develop systems and helps build an engaged, talented, and vigorous workforce. But it also highlights the disconnect of traditional practices with the realities of 21st Century people and organizations. This short guidance article summary and downloadable whitepaper describes six basic themes on how…

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  • Support Impactful Learning & Growth (#6 Agile HR Theme)

    Lean | Agile Enterprises are learning organizations who thrive on relentless improvement – as a company and also as individuals. They match traditional teaching methods with contemporary ways of obtaining and sharing knowledge. They provide growth opportunities across the organization with Lean | Agile Leaders, Career Coaches, and Talent Scouts all playing a central role…

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  • Take the Issue of Money off the Table (#5 Agile HR Theme)

    Compensation and bonuses are still used as the predominant way to incentivize and recognize people. However, Lean | Agile Enterprises avoid individual cash incentives that are toxic for their teams and instead move to more meaningful ways of reward and appreciation that acknowledge the fact that people are driven by mastery, autonomy, and purpose. They…

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  • Shift to Iterative Performance Flow (#4 Agile HR Theme)

    Employee appraisals are undoubtedly the most scrutinized (and possibly least effective) HR tool. Lean | Agile Enterprises eliminate annual reviews and push the reset button on traditional Performance Management by shifting to an Iterative Performance Flow. Thereby, they (re-)optimize the system for optimal cadence, alignment, responsiveness, and growth while decoupling it from other HR instruments.…

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  • Hire for Attitude and Cultural Fit (#3 Agile HR Theme)

    Hiring in a Lean | Agile Enterprise is no longer about simply finding people with the right technical skills. Alternatively, they pursue people whose expertise is coupled with abilities to thrive in self-organizing, responsive teams. Their Talent Acquisition is a team-based approach; a dedicated HR team not only supports a hiring and onboarding process in…

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  • Foster Continuous Engagement (#2 Agile HR Theme)

    Passionate and dedicated people are highly engaged, and engagement has never been more imperative to business success than in the knowledge economy that marks the digital age. Lean | Agile Enterprises understand the power of inspiring people and the abilities of collaborative empowered teams. They set the stage for their employees to thrive and continuously…

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  • Embrace the New Talent Contract (#1 Agile HR Theme)

    Intrinsically motivated people are the real driving force behind Lean | Agile Enterprises. Their drive and desire to make a difference build the foundation for the new talent contract. The ensuing power shift will give Agile people a voice in shaping the way their organization, leaders, and HR interact with them – not only when…

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  • Aligning Key Themes in Human Resources to Lean | Agile Values & Principles

    Lean | Agile has evolved as the predominant, most effective way of working in today’s turbulent times. And while Lean | Agile actively addresses critical aspects of Human Resources (HR), like engagement and performance, it also highlights the disconnect of traditional HR practices in the digital age. It is time for HR to embrace the…

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  • How Lean | Agile Enterprises Push the Reset Button on Performance Management

    Traditional Performance Management systems are in deep crisis. Their industrial era approach is unable to meet the demands and thinking of 21st century people and organizations. Lean | Agile enterprises press the reset button and move from an administrative Performance Management process to a successful iterative performance flow.

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  • Five Ways Lean | Agile Enterprises Rock At Onboarding

    Lean | agile enterprises are more successful in absorbing new hires and getting them up to speed. They naturally embrace and ignite people to inspire and make them part of something great. And their onboarding is a real kick-starter on so many levels: it is instant, it is effective, it is sustainable – and above…

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  • Want to Develop a Strong Talent Pipeline? Four Things to Consider

    Identifying, attracting and engaging the right people is key to building a strong workforce. But finding top talents is getting harder and harder. And all too often, HR fails to build a valid talent pipeline and can only fall back on a limited number of (more or less suitable) applicants.

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  • Mastering Agile is Essential for HR Professionals

    Long gone are the days when Scrum et al. was viewed as something only IT teams would do. The success of lean | agile approaches is beyond dispute and it impacts ever more companies at all levels. HR professionals will have to become knowledge experts in enterprise agility to lead their organization into a change-ready…

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  • Financial Markets & Agile

    Fabiola Eyholzer, Chief Executive Officer of Just Leading Solutions in an interview with US-Chief Correspondent Manuel Koch for the “Nasdaq Report”. The interview was broadcasted for Deutsches Anleger-Fernsehen (DAF) from the Nasdaq Studio on Times Square, New York.

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