The impact of a harassment investigation
A harassment investigation can be essential.It is never neutral. I want to be clear about this.These procedures make sense.They make it possible to handle situations that need to be handled.And they need to exist. But we also need to be aware of what they leave behind. Recently, several organisations have reached out to me after […]
Questiology and leadership
We expect a leader to have answers.I think their real superpower is having the right questions. A few weeks ago, a company I work with regularly asked me to contribute to its thinking on how its management culture is evolving. Among the themes chosen to inspire their project team, there were six.Including leadership. And questiology. […]
Seminar vs team coaching
A few days ago, I facilitated a team seminar.On the way home, I thought we might be asking too much of a single day. It was an executive committee I had already worked with a year earlier.We had run a first seminar together.At the time, the team was just forming.We had worked on getting to […]
Madame Wellness
At one company, I heard someone say: “Madame Wellness isn’t doing well.”It made me smile. Then much less so. The person they were talking about was the one in charge of wellbeing, quality of working life and wellness topics in the organisation.And clearly, she was struggling. What this sentence says, between the lines, is something […]
Post-seminar: testimonial 2
There are moments in a career when you need to stop and check who you really are as a leader. That’s exactly where Claudine, Director of Talent Development, was when she arrived at the seminar. She had just taken on a new, more strategic role.And she wanted to check two things. Who she is as […]
Post-seminar: testimonial 1
Sometimes, leadership isn’t lost in a crisis.It erodes quietly. Until the day you no longer recognise yourself. That’s what Gisèle told me when she arrived at the seminar. Founding Director of an accounting firm.Weakened by a health episode.Head down, worn out by her decisions, her stance, everything. She was no longer stepping back to see […]
Urgent vs important
The urgent has thousands of spokespeople.The important often has only one. This week in coaching, a client told me:“I know I need to work on the big-picture stuff. But I never manage to.There’s always an email, a request, a problem to fix, someone waiting.” I hear this sentence often.In different forms and from very different […]
MCC: Master Certified Coach
I was taught that true expertise means continuing to learn.The MCC I’ve just been awarded is proof of that. MCC. Master Certified Coach.The highest level of certification from the ICF, the International Coaching Federation. 56 coaches in France hold it.4% of ICF-certified coaches worldwide. I’m not saying this to impress.I’m saying it because it says […]
Our words shape our reality
September to-do list: be more organised, exercise, prioritise better, don’t work so much.Just writing it down, I’m already tired. And that’s no coincidence. “I have to.” “I must.” “I can’t manage to.”It seems harmless. But these words set up an obligation, even a debt.And sometimes the idea that who we are or what we do […]
The Churchill effect
“When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.”In organisations, we’ve been quick to forget Churchill’s words. In December 1941, he declared war on Japan.His message to the Japanese ambassador was extremely courteous.He was criticised for the tone.It’s his reply that went down in history. Management researchers have named this paradox […]