How do you give effective and caring feedback? Offering feedback, whether it’s reinforcement or realignment, isn’t always easy, is it? If you want to find a balance between being caring and efficient, here are two essential and simple keys to apply. This...
How do you get people to embrace change? Human beings have an immense capacity to adapt to change. Think about your life, think about the changes you’ve experienced! Dealing with change is our daily lot, the more you have a proven approach and method, the easier...
There is always room for innovation and generating ideas, you might say. That’s right! And it’s really a business activity that I love: generating new ideas! What I love even more are the benefits of being an innovative company or team! Inter alia:...
Do you feel that you (or someone on your team) is losing motivation? Do you notice a lack of commitment or motivation around you? This can be at work or in your personal life. For example, you stay at work but don’t try too hard anymore. Or you find yourself...
As a leader, getting to know yourself better allows you to recognize your strengths and blind spots as well as to determine which profile(s) are essential in order to better surround yourself and have the desired impact. In this article, you will find the five...
Having experienced it as a manager and discussing it regularly with my clients, I admit that the evaluation period can be a demanding and frustrating exercise. But you don’t have to experience it that way. You can turn the experience of the performance review...
The current labor shortage is causing a lot of fear in organizations: fear of losing employees, fear of not delivering on time, fear of this, or fear of that. The problem is not fear. The idea is to see how to use this fear to avoid losing your employees. To do this,...
For the past ten years, the employee engagement rate has been around 30%. Currently, it would be 21%* of people who consider themselves to be very engaged at work. A disengaged employee makes 60%* more mistakes. So, what type of manager should you be to better engage...
The most effective way to adapt in today’s world is through empathy. Empathy for yourself, for others, for the organization. In behavioral agility, systemic empathy is an extraordinary lever for cooperation and contributes to anticipation and innovation. Empathy...
I coach and train people who always want to increase their positive impact on their team. Not that they are not good leaders, they simply want to improve, more and more, and be even more positive leaders for themselves and others. They recognize that being a positive...
Do you find it not always easy to stay motivated? That is to say, to keep the inner motivation, when the outside is chaotic? You know, staying motivated when things aren’t necessarily going the way we want them to? When we feel that we don’t control a lot...
The leadership coaching style is an optimal leadership style to develop the autonomy of your team members and promote learning through mistakes (supervised!). First of all, you should know that being a leader coach is not the same as being a professional coach! That...
Looking at the history of management and the evolution of the manager’s role, it is clear that the management posture is constantly evolving. In the past, the manager’s credibility came from his expertise, later from his leadership and his approach in...
In 1995, Gary Chapman wrote the book “The Five Love Languages”. In this book, Mr. Chapman demonstrated that to improve communication and trust in relationships, it is essential to know how our partner “receives” love. You have to learn to...
A positive leader brings their teams together and unites them. If you’ve already been asked to be a more unifying leader, here are 3 keys that will help you. What you are going to find in this article is the opposite of the type of leader who has the motto:...
Have you ever turned over a new member of your team because he or she didn’t know your organization well enough to have relevant ideas? But how do you deal with new ideas? Even more so when they come from someone new to your organization or when the time is not...
If you’ve ever asked your team how they could increase productivity, I’m willing to bet they’ve told you they need more resources. For example: more human resources, better tools, clearer roles, more efficient processes, etc. And I think those things...
Have you ever wondered if you have one mobilizing and committed leader or even several in your company? How many of your employees do you think are actually engaged at work? When asking this question to the audience of my conference on the subject as part of the SME...
Recently, I read about an approach that surprised me from the start, and that by dint of thinking about it ended up finding its place in the panoply of tips that we can use to improve our behaviors as a leader. In other words, it’s about stopping doing...
I have never seen a manager in bad faith, only managers who are poorly equipped. And as management is learned on the pitch, inevitably the manager makes several mistakes. The only thing you can control is your attitude to mistakes. In this third part on...
