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Leadership

What are the qualities and skills required to lead individuals or organizations towards their goals? More generally, how to train and engage teams?

Move beyond the work-life balance dilemma

Move beyond the work-life balance dilemma

What if finding the right balance between personal and professional life is the wrong question? Recognizing that the two are constantly intermingled makes it possible to move beyond this contrast and to find a new equilibrium.
220b – Synthèse (8 p.) Time management
Learn cost cutting from low-cost businesses

Learn cost cutting from low-cost businesses

Low-cost is often assimilated with cheap prices and cheap quality to match. Wrongly so! This dramatically innovative business model has generated major savings. Could low-cost offer new inspiration to improve the profitability of your organization?
217b – Synthèse (8 p.) Costs
How to take safety to the next level?

How to take safety to the next level?

As atypical as they may be, the high-reliability organizations—aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, space travel installations, etc.—are characterized by a remarkably low number of incidents. How to learn from their methods to raise the bar on safety?
216b – Synthèse (8 p.) Risk
Use collective common sense to make more accurate forecasts

Use collective common sense to make more accurate forecasts

The “wisdom of crowds” turns out to be infinitely more reliable than individual common sense, and even than expert predictions. How to gather and capitalize on employees’ collective perception of the company's challenges?
214b – Synthèse (8 p.) Foresight
Stimulate job satisfaction

Stimulate job satisfaction

A recent study shows that energy at work primarily feeds on the conviction that we can progress effectively. How can we use this lever to optimize resources by reinforcing staff work satisfaction?
212a – Synthèse (8 p.) Motivation
Accept conflict to manage it better

Accept conflict to manage it better

Conflict is part of the everyday landscape for most leaders and managers. However, we generally find it extremely difficult to react calmly to conflict. How can we understand and hence better manage our spontaneous reactions?
212b – Synthèse (8 p.) Conflicts
Create a culture of accountability

Create a culture of accountability

Our defensive reflexes cause us to hold onto old habits, and thus obstruct change. How can we address issues in a more constructive and responsible manner?
210b – Synthèse (8 p.) Responsabilisation
Leader 2.0

Leader 2.0

The information revolution affects more than processes; it also changes people. How can you adapt management to this new environment?
209a – Synthèse (8 p.) Management styles
Inspire trust

Inspire trust

Trust is a key ingredient of high-performance teams and organizations. How can we develop a good understanding of its different components to foster its emergence and maintain it to last?
209b – Synthèse (8 p.) Interpersonal relationships
Happiness, a powerful performance driver

Happiness, a powerful performance driver

Happiness is not the consequence of success. Research in neuroscience shows rather the opposite: happiness is a success factor! How can we improve performance by cultivating happiness?
208a – Synthèse (8 p.) Emotional intelligence

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