Sky Betting & Gaming is fast-growing, award winning digital company. We will take you on an agile transformation within our Human Resources. We will share first-hand experience and openly discuss our approach, our challenges, our results and lessons learned. We will explain how a shift from Human Resources to People Operations was not just a name change, but a game change.

// About Sky Betting & Gaming //

Sky Betting & Gaming is a tech company born out of Sky, and we’re aiming to be the UK’s best digital business. With over 1000+ employees, we are constantly innovating and growing. We don’t have teams. We have Tribes. Tribes of people who work collaboratively with a shared purpose. Each Tribe is made up of small, agile and autonomous squads.

It’s an environment where startup culture, speed to market, agility and continuous improvement are powerful influences. It’s somewhere that values challenge and collaboration, while removing barriers and hierarchy.

We’ve created the kind of workplace that not only retains talent, but wins awards for it too - including a place on the prestigious Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For list.

// Agile Adoption in Human Resources //

As innovative and fast-growing organization, it is important to engage amazing people, shape a great culture and create a unique place of work. For HR to effectively support the agile enterprise, HR needs to embrace Agile values, principles, and practices.

After successful pilot within the Bet Tribe, SB&G decided to scale agile across all tribes and create a dedicated People Operations team. The newly formed team began its agile journey in July 2017. Amanda Bellwood, People Operations Manager at SB&G and Fabiola Eyholzer, CEO & Agile HR Expert of Just Leading Solutions LLC will take you on the journey of going through the People Ops implementation.

The discussion will cover topics on how we approached the transformation and what we experienced along the way. In addition to sharing our journey map, we will reveal our successful kick-start and explain how we achieved a shift in mindset within a short time. But we will also address the challenges of keeping the momentum going and explain how we dealt with constraints and roadblocks.

We will share how we handle the demanding task of co-creating and delivering value in an Agile manner (Agile for HR), but also supporting the Agile organization with state-of-the-art People Solutions aligned with Agile values and principles (HR for Agile).

People are the heart & soul of Agile. Let’s turn your Human Resources into Agile People Operations to boost your enterprise agility.

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“#1 trend 2016: HR embraces agile" | HR Trend Institute

"HR drives the agile organization" | HRO Today

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Inspired, empowered, and engaged people are the heart and soul of Agile – and HR.

Transforming your organization into an agile enterprise is no small deed. And it does not matter where you are on your way towards embracing agility on all levels. There will be a time when you need to align your people solutions with the mindset and demands of agile people and organizations.

We will talk about how to turn your Human Resources into Agile People Operations and boost your agility. We will share stories and examples of Agile HR practices and their implications and impact.

There is growing interest in learning more about Agile HR and its impact on individuals, teams and organizations.

It is important to separate fact from fiction: What are the real threats and opportunities of bringing Lean | Agile values, principles, and practices to HR? What can we expect in the future? Through anecdotal evidence and case studies, the session will explore the potential of Agile HR as well as provide guidance on how to approach the transformation.

 Issues covered in the presentation include: information on how to embrace the new talent contract, create inspiring, engaging, and fun places of work, shift to an iterative performance flow, take the issue of money off the table, support growth within an Agile enterprise.

“#1 trend: HR embraces agile" | HR Trend Institute

"HR drives the agile organization" | HRO Today

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Agile HR is a hot topic. But what does it really mean: Is it about implementing Scrum in your HR teams? Is it about eliminating annual employee appraisals? Or is it more than that?

Bringing your HR into the 21^st Century with Lean | Agile values, principles, and practices starts by understanding the various aspects of Agile HR.

Traditional Performance Management systems are antiquated and in deep crises. It is time to move to a successful iterative performance flow.

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Traditional Performance Management systems are in deep crises. Their industrial era approach is unable to meet the demands and thinking of 21st century people and organizations.

Join this interactive workshop to discuss how Lean | Agile enterprises can push the reset button and move from an administrative Performance Management process to a successful iterative performance flow.

This is a highly participative open space session and we will cover questions like:

– Why is there a need to push the reset button on Performance Management?

– How do we approach goal settings in an agile environment? What is the best balance between collective vs. individual goals? Can you align individual    goals with agile thinking?

– Why is there a trend to eliminate employee appraisals? Are 360-feedbacks the new employee appraisals? Can we still promote people without appraisals and less/no hierarchical structure?

– How valid are traditional bonus models or are there better ways for remuneration and acknowledgement?

People are the heart & soul of Agile. Let’s turn your Human Resources into Agile People Operations to boost your enterprise agility.

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Inspired, empowered, and engaged people are the heart and soul of Agile – and HR.

Transforming your organization into an agile enterprise is no small deed. And it does not matter where you are on your way towards embracing agility on all levels. There will be a time when you need to align your people solutions with the mindset and demands of agile people and organizations.

We will talk about how to turn your Human Resources into Agile People Operations and boost your agility.

Traditional Performance Management systems are in deep crises. Their industrial era approach is unable to meet the demands and thinking of 21st century people and organizations. Join this interactive workshop to discuss how Lean | Agile enterprises can push the reset button and move from an administrative Performance Management process to a successful iterative performance flow.

 This is a highly participative open space session and we will cover questions like:

• Why is there a need to push the reset button on Performance Management?
• How do we approach goal settings in an agile environment? What is the best balance between collective vs. individual goals? Can you align individual goals with agile thinking?
• Why is there a trend to eliminate employee appraisals? Are 360-feedbacks the new employee appraisals? Can we still promote people without appraisals and less/no hierarchical structure?
• How valid are traditional bonus models or are there better ways for remuneration and acknowledgement?

Inspired, empowered, and engaged people are the heart and soul of Agile – and HR.

Transforming your organization into an agile enterprise is no small deed. And it does not matter where you are on your way towards embracing agility on all levels. There will be a time when you need to align your people solutions with the mindset and demands of agile people and organizations. We will talk about how to turn your Human Resources into Agile People Operations and boost your agility. 

Join this session to

• gain valuable insights into the world of Human Resource Management
• recognize the impact of Agile HR practices through stories and examples
• discover why Agile needs HR and vice versa
• learn about People solutions in Agile Enterprises

Do you remember the frustration that comes from trying to make traditional HR instruments like performance reviews work for your Agile teams? Do you feel HR is undermining your best efforts at collaborative leadership and is holding you back? Do you find yourself in a constant dispute with HR over people processes?

It is inevitable: HR must embrace Lean | Agile values and principles in order to engage and energize Agile talents. It’s time to show HR how key people challenges like retention, talent development, and performance management can be addressed successfully with Lean | Agile.

Join this session to

– gain valuable insights into the world of Human Resource Management

– recognize the impact of Agile HR practices

– discover why Agile needs HR and vice versa

– identify compelling arguments and tactics to convince HR to go Agile.    

Young, overly-confident and tech-savvy Millennials are challenging their colleagues and managers – just like the generation before them and they before them. But for the first time we are dealing with up to four different generations within one team.

That makes generational differences very real; causing misunderstandings and tension. And the hard realities of the «Unique Snowflake Syndrome» make it even more challenging for young professionals to find their place in the workforce.

Join this session to gain a better understanding of the «Snowflake Generation» and how Agile is the perfect blueprint to embrace diversity of thought and bridge the generation gap to shape unbeatable teams.    

Young, overly-confident and tech-savvy Millennials are challenging their colleagues and managers – just like the generation before them and they before them. But for the first time we are dealing with up to four different generations within one team.

That makes generational differences very real; causing misunderstandings and tension. And the hard realities of the «Unique Snowflake Syndrome» make it even more challenging for young professionals to find their place in the workforce.

Join this session to gain a better understanding of the «Snowflake Generation» and how Agile is the perfect blueprint to embrace diversity of thought and bridge the generation gap to shape unbeatable teams.    

Do you remember the frustration that comes from trying to make traditional HR instruments like performance reviews work for your Agile teams? Do you feel HR is undermining your best efforts at collaborative leadership and is holding you back? Do you find yourself in a constant dispute with HR over people processes?

It is inevitable: HR must embrace Lean | Agile values and principles in order to engage and energize Agile talents. It’s time to show HR how key people challenges like retention, talent development, and performance management can be addressed successfully with Lean | Agile.

Join this session to

– gain valuable insights into the world of Human Resource Management

– recognize the impact of Agile HR practices through stories and examples

– discover why Agile needs HR and vice versa

– identify compelling arguments and tactics to convince HR to go Agile.