Summary

What I love about hosting the Learning3.0 podcast is the amazing people I get to meet and Neha Bhardwaj is one of those! With a bluechip background working on large transformational projects in New Zealand, she really knows her stuff. She has worked for Air New Zealand, ASB, Vodafone, and she is now the CEO & Co-Founder at Cultivate.

In this episode she clearly defines what Agile is, and how it applies to HR and L&D teams.

I have no doubt that if your business or organisation is looking to implement wide-scale agile transformation, her and the people she can recommend are who you need to talk to.

About the guest:

Neha is the CEO & Co-founder at Cultivate, a CX & EX Transformation Consultant and Activator at SheEO. She is a results driven and commercially focused People Practitioner with over 15 years’ experience in specialist and generalist People & Culture roles. Neha is hugely passionate about the future of HR and how this profession is evolving, she believes that the best People strategies are human first, data driven and splashed with design thinking.

About your host Rustica Lamb:

Rustica is a learning designer, LMS consultant, edupreneur, facilitator and founder of Bloom Learning Technologies (2012). She is one of New Zealand’s best known learning and development personalities, a trusted L&D advisor and a well respected leader in the industry.

Rustica has 25+ years experience as an L&D Manager, eLearning designer, senior instructional designer, capability advisor, SAP trainer, facilitator, project manager and mentor. She designs learning experiences and spaces which are engaging, affirming, empowering and inspiring.

Rustica has worked internally and externally with a number of organisations, including: Westpac, ANZ, Ministry of Health, Contact Energy, Vodafone, Ministry of Justice, Mighty River Power, Telecom, Vodafone, Green Cross Health, Orion Health and Morgan & Banks. She held the position of Vice President for the New Zealand Association of Training and Development (NZATD) from 2012 to 2015, and was the NZATD Practitioner of the Year in 2012.

In this episode we discuss:

• What is Agile HR?
• How L&D can think about learning differently, to be more agile
• Traps to avoid on your Agile transformation journey
• How long it takes for culture change to be embedded in an organisation

Best moments

• CX/PX/LX what's the difference?
• "Don’t go the Agile route if you are not solving a problem"
• "Agile is mindset, mindset, mindset, the rest are methodologies"
• Human Centred Design, design thinking, what are they and how do they relate to Agile?
• Do you Meet? Beat? Compete? Where business value is realised

Podcast Resources:

• Listen to the David James Podcast with Tracey Waters from Sky TV
• Connect with Neha on LinkedIn
• Learn more about CultivateHQ
• Read ‘Agile People’ by Pia-Maria Thoren
• Read 'The Space Race to Build the Netflix of Learning' by Rachael Reeves
• Learn more about Dandy People

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