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A traveller's diary-In Bruges

Ah Bruges, Belgium. One of the most beautiful & most surprising cities in Europe. A perfectly preserved medieval city famous for its history, its canals, its primitive Flemish painters like Jan Van Eyck and Hans Memling, its many museums, its wonderful medieval brick Gothic architecture & Flemish brick building façades with their stepped gables, its Beguinage. The Venice of the North. A…

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Journal d'un paddle boarder-Le tropical race de Genève.

Festina lente. Hâte-toi lentement. Aah! Genève, la Suisse. Son vieux quartier, sa Cathédrale de Saint Pierre, ses organisations internationales, ses grands hotels, ses banques, ses montagnes, ses horlogers, son chocolat, son jet d’eau, son Lac Léman magnifique, ses hommes et femmes célèbres (Jean Calvin, JJ Rousseau, Henri Dunant, Albert Schweitzer,…). Un petit weekend dans la cité helvétique…

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Négocier un accord de télétravail avec les partenaires sociaux-10 recommandations

Négocier un accord de télétravail avec les partenaires sociaux-10 recommandations

LE TELETRAVAIL – BEAUCOUP D’ACCORDS D’ENTRERPRISE EN VUE EN 2021 Les DRH en France vont être très occupé(e)s dans les mois à venir à préparer et à négocier des accords d’entreprise sur le télétravail. A ce sujet, des experts de L’Agence Nationale pour l’Amélioration des Conditions de Travail (ANACT) vient de réaliser une étude très intéressante et approfondie des accords de travail et chartes…

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French social partners sign national interprofessional agreement on Teleworking

French social partners sign national interprofessional agreement on Teleworking

Make a very necessary clarification to teleworking rules in france New technologies and digitalization have greatly impacted work practices in France as elsewhere over the past number of years. Teleworking has gradually become part of the working environment at least for certain categories of white collar workers. The initial sudden lock down due to Covid 19 in March 2020 and the continuing…

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Virtual presentations: some tips to help you get your message across.

Virtual presentations: some tips to help you get your message across.

As the Covid 19 pandemic continues across the globe, more and more countries are returning to a lock down similar to the lock down of March 2020 and remote working is becoming more and more the new norm. As a result, more and more employees are finding themselves having to make more and more virtual presentations on virtual meeting platforms like Teams, Go to meeting, Webex, Zoom, Google…

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Some tips to help make "remote working" work for you

Some tips to help make “remote working” work for you

Due to the ongoing Covid19 pandemic, more and more employees are being asked by their employers to work from home. The longer the pandemic lasts, the more home office/remote working is becoming the “new normal” way of working. However, while home office/remote working has many avantages, it also has many pitfalls, especially for new remote workers.

Remote working can indeed represent quite a…

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Business Transformation: Key “hard factors” that influence success!

Business Transformation: Key “hard factors” that influence success!

I wrote in a previous post about why many change management initiative fail and made some suggestions as to what to do to swing the balance in favor of success.

If according to research, many transformation initiatives fail, operationally and from experience, I know that many do indeed succeed!

Reflecting on all the good practices I witnessed over the years at different organizations that…

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Why Change Initiatives fail and what we can do about it.

Why Change Initiatives fail and what we can do about it.

According to a study back in 2013 by Towers Watson, only 25% of change initiatives are successful in the long term! (See Victor Lipman, Forbes, Why Change Management Fails)

Quite dismal results when you think of the huge investment made by many corporations to implement change initiatives in their organizations, even more so when you consider that such initiatives are almost always announced as…

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What's killing Employee Engagement and how to deal with it?

What’s killing Employee Engagement and how to deal with it?

JFK once said « Things do not happen, they are made to happen » and Mark Hurd, CEO of Oracle may have been thinking of JFK when he chose Employee Engagement as the topic for his address at the opening keynote session of Oracle HCM world in Chicago recently (see The Compelling Case for Employee Engagement).

Employee engagement deals of course with how deeply an employee connects with his/her…

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What makes a Great Team? 7 “Scrum…tastic” Success factors!

What makes a Great Team? 7 “Scrum…tastic” Success factors!

So Leicester City has won the English Premier League!

If you are not an avid soccer or sports fan, this piece of news will probably leave you cold.

But for all the crazy sports fanatics around the Globe, this is a truly astonishing result.

Here is a team that has absolutely no recognized « A » players in its first team, has one of the smallest budgets in the Premier League, that was almost…

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Unveiling the Tesla Model 3 -Answering the question Why. Disrupting the market!

Unveiling the Tesla Model 3 -Answering the question Why. Disrupting the market!

On March 31, 2016 last, Elon Musk unveiled the new Tesla model 3 and from a Leadership point of view, what is really compelling is the way he chose to  do it.

Rather than  trying to sell the Model 3 to his audience by  answering the question “What” and focusing in detail on the car’s technical specifications as a traditional car maker would have done, Elon Musk chose first to answer the question…

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a Contrarian's view to start-up success -from Zero to One by Peter Thiel

a Contrarian’s view to start-up success -from Zero to One by Peter Thiel

It could seem quite contrarian indeed  to question generally accepted conventional wisdom that competition is synonymous with capitalism. Ever since Adam Smith, we have been educated to believe that free competition is the foundation of economic prosperity and every entrepreneur should willingly and gladly accept that competing for market share is the rule of the game.

Nor would you expect such a…

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The Power of Purpose

The Power of Purpose

Check out this very enjoyable and thought-provoking speech by Robert E. Quinn from the Ross Business School at the University of Michigan  in which Robert reveals very simply how we can all bring positive change around us. The secret lies in discovering our sense of a higher purpose!

As Robert Quinn explains, “when we embrace a sense of a higher purpose, meaning increases in our lives. When we…

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Competing Values - understanding Yellows

Competing Values – understanding Yellows

  The Competing Values Framework shows that organizations are the arena where seemingly opposing values compete: the Yellow “Cooperators” versus the blue “Competitors” on the one hand and the green “Creators” and the red “Controllers” on the other hand.  Competition is inevitable and these 4 mindsets must be harnessed to work together effectively to deliver the outcomes required to meet the…

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A team without trust is not really a team. It's just a group of individuals working together.