Agile People Picturebook

About the Author About Pia-Maria ThorenPia-Maria is the author of Agile People - A Radical Approach for HR and Managers (That Leads to Motivated Employees), and the founder of Agile People. She specialize in helping companies move towards a culture of increased agility through Agile HR, Agile leadership and Motivation. She has worked as a consultant with many of Sweden's largest companies, helping them to implement HR processes and solutions, always spiced with an agile mindset. She is a People management consultant and devoted change agent with an enterprise perspective. Her main focus is to contribute to creating organizations where people perform better and feel engaged. Agile leadership and agile frameworks are the best ways to create successful change, in her opinion. Pia-Maria is the founder of Agile People, which is a network and a conference with the purpose of spreading the agile mindset in organizations. Her main drive is to see the movement from one state to another in a company, contributing by making that change successful both from a financial and human perspective. Her vision is to create customer value and have fun at the same time! Special focus areas: Agile People (Agile HR AND Agile Leadership), Agile Culture Journeys, Management 3.0, Performance development, Employee engagement & motivation (Reiss Motivation Profile), workshop facilitation, event moderation and professional speaking. Product Description If you are serious about changing the way your organization operates, this picturebook is an essential and fun read to understand what you need to start and stop doing to create the necessary conditions for the future of work. Pia-Maria Thoren is the Swedish author of the successful book ”Agile People, a Radical Approach for Employees and Managers (That Leads to Motivated Employees).” In this picturebook, Nico Simpson, a graphic artist from Claripics, South Africa, complements the text from the book with his easy-to-grasp illustrations that deepen the meaning of the messages.The Agile People Picturebook is for everybody who wants to understand more about business and people agility and how to create that common direction where people are intrinsically motivated to give their best at work every day because they want to, not because they have to. Leadership is about making people go in the direction that you want them to go because THEY want to go in that direction. If you want to know more about what you can do to increase awareness about people and agile, go to agilepeople.com and contact us for any questions or more information. Review 'A picture tells a thousand words' - and that iscertainly the case with this great addition to the business agility library.Pia-Maria's original book, 'Agile People: A Radical Approach for HR &Managers (That Leads to Motivated Employees)' has become required reading forHR leaders, and has attracted a well-deserved following. This new picture bookedition takes the message to another level. Highlighting the crucial points from 'Agile People',and summarising them as simple, easy-accessible, bite-sized insights, lendsitself perfectly to the picture book format. Nico & Elsa Simpson'sdelightful illustrations are friendly and cheerful, reflecting perfectly thewarm humanity woven throughout the ideas in the book - a welcome contrast tomost business books. And make no mistake - this is a business book. Thepicture book medium enables us to grasp more easily the meaning of the AgilePeople message, yet that meaning is a serious one. Agility is not amethodology. It is not even, really, a mindset. Agility is a behaviour, andonly when we encourage and enable and reward that behaviour in our people, dowe see business agility thrive in our organisations. From first (agile) principles, through structure,learning, leadership and the ever-present challenges of complexity, the AgilePeople Picture Book leads us with a clarity of expression and a cheerfulness ofdemeanour t