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Agile for HR — ICAgile Certified Professional (ICP-AHR)

For HR professionals and organisational leaders, this ICAgile-certified programme makes the case that a genuine shift to agile ways of working starts with people, not process. Participants explore how HR can move from an administrative function to a catalyst for building an adaptable, innovation-ready organisation.

The course reframes familiar HR territory — workplace design, career progression, performance management, talent acquisition — through an agile lens, and looks at how HR itself can start working in a more agile way.

Course duration & format

  • Duration:

    2 days in person, or 4 half-day live online sessions

  • Format:

    Instructor-led, with lecture, facilitated discussion and case study work

  • Optimum class size:

    12 to 24 participants

  • Entry requirements:

    Agile Fundamentals is recommended, but not required

Learning outcomes

  • Contrast traditional versus adaptive organisational structures

  • Reimagine HR's role as People Operations in an agile organisation

  • Design new workplace and career progression models

  • Build a learning culture aligned with agile principles

  • Develop leaders suited to modern organisations

  • Rethink talent acquisition and onboarding

  • Manage performance in knowledge-based roles

  • Use intrinsic motivation to drive engagement

  • Apply agile ways of working to HR itself

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Real agile transformation is a people shift first — and HR is well placed to lead it.

Intended audience

  • Leaders modernising their people operations

  • HR professionals building agile competency

  • Anyone pursuing professional agile-HR certification