Savoir-Agir@Work

The perfect moment for awareness…


Slowly, but surely, the ashes return to the ground… Once we have dusted ourselves off and our bruises disappear slowly… Before projecting ourselves in...
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  996 lectures
996 lectures

Navigate difficult conversations with empathy during a period of tension


Difficult conversations… You dread them, you postpone them sometimes, but you have to have them at some point. Difficult discussions are part of every...
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  1229 lectures
1229 lectures

Managing your emotions in time of uncertainty and chaos


Circumstances of great uncertainty - like the current crisis - can make us feel destabilized and anxious. Our emotions and thoughts can get in the way...
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  2805 lectures
2805 lectures

Optimism – In time of crisis…


Why write about optimism when we are in the midst of a worldwide crisis and people are manifestly fearful and worried? Research in neuroscience and ps...
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  2024 lectures
2024 lectures

Visual supports | The analog tools’ advantages in the digital era


Before foreseeing a PowerPoint for your next presentation, and neglecting (even forgetting) white boards and flip charts, take the time to read this: ...
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  1332 lectures
1332 lectures

Front-Line Personnel – Have we abandoned our soldiers on the Front?


Soldiers? Uuuh… On the front? What? As a soft skills trainer, I have encountered thousands of workers who come to learn the skills needed to face the ...
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  1066 lectures
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1066 lectures

Tattoos in the Work Place: is it Still a Taboo Topic?


Tattoos, once associated with rebellion, crimes, delinquency, gang membership, and machismo, has now become a modern phenomenon of self affirmation an...
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  2030 lectures
2030 lectures

MENTAL IMAGERY: TO DEVELOP AND INTEGRATE SOFT SKILLS


Here is the second of two articles about mental imagery. In the previous article we explained the technique and how it helps the performance and devel...
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2631 lectures

MENTAL IMAGERY: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PERFORMANCE


The next two articles are dedicated to mental imagery. This first article focuses on explaining this science-based technique, how it contributes to pe...
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  7506 lectures
7506 lectures

“NEW COLLAR” WORKERS ARE TODAY’S PROFESSIONAL WORKFORCE VERSION 4.0


We all understand the difference between white-collar workers (those who have historically worked with their minds) and blue-collar workers (those who...
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  1335 lectures
1335 lectures

Burn-Out, Bore-Out and Brown-Out – Demystifying Modern Work Afflictions


The last decades have seen workers overwhelmed by all kinds of mental health issues, disconcerting afflictions that slowly consumed them engulfing the...
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  35260 lectures
35260 lectures

Communication Isn’t What We Say – It’s What the Other Person Understands


Communication is a complex process. Speaking well or forming good arguments is not sufficient to be a good communicator. In order to explain the compl...
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  6755 lectures
6755 lectures

Demonstrating Courtesy and Respect in the Workplace


Do good manners at work really matter? Should you really be expected to be polite all the time, or can you bend the rules in the name of efficiency an...
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77299 lectures

Open Office Environment: How to Make it Work


There is an ongoing debate about the pros and cons of open offices. Some research indicates they are a playground for collaboration, innovation, creat...
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  4359 lectures
4359 lectures

Working in a Multicultural Environment


Working in a multicultural environment can be a satisfying and rewarding professional experience. You can broaden your horizons by learning various sk...
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  10950 lectures
10950 lectures

Professional Competencies


To continue where the article entitled THE ABILITY TO ACT… AT THE HEART OF PERFORMANCE AND EXCELLENCE left off, let’s begin by defining the term “comp...
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  1754 lectures
1754 lectures

The Ability to Act… At the Heart Of Performance and Excellence


“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” - Aristotle “The ability to act” is the intentional and effective levera...
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  32274 lectures
32274 lectures

Knowing How to Act


WHAT IS PROFESSIONALISM? The ability and commitment to adopt the right behaviour in the workplace – to behave in a way that reflects favourably on the...
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2931 lectures

Services Standards - Levers of customer service quality

Services Standards - Levers of customer service quality
Why are service standards important? Service standards represent an important element for customer service excellence, as well as good yield managemen...
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  36411 lectures
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36411 lectures

Achieving Objectives - Going Beyond New Year's Resolutions!

Achieving Objectives - Going Beyond New Year's Resolutions!
The New Year is when many of us step back, take a good look at our lives and careers, and resolve to change things for the better.  We make a lis...
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  16594 lectures
16594 lectures

Being self-confident and trusting yourself

Being self-confident and trusting yourself
Self-confidence is the ability to believe, realistically and constantly, that we possess the necessary resources to face any situation with ease. It’s...
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  4323 lectures
4323 lectures

The Routine that Hinders our Effectiveness

The Routine that Hinders our Effectiveness
Despite your willingness, efforts, and your engagement to be effective, you will simply not succeed! Days come by and all look the same. You get in to...
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  2855 lectures
2855 lectures

Generations in Today's Workplace


Today’s workforce is more diverse than ever. An aspect of this diversity, among many others, is the age of workers. More generations interact in the s...
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  2580 lectures
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2580 lectures

Adaptability


It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change. Cha...
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  2733 lectures
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2733 lectures

Being Assertive - It's All About Respect!


Assertiveness is the ability to express our feelings, sensations, thoughts, opinions, convictions and preferences freely, openly and directly regardle...
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  20417 lectures
20417 lectures

Empathy on the Workplace


Developing Empathy to Understand Others We all know individuals who lack empathy. Be it for their insensitivity when they make requests, or because th...
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3081 lectures

Beware of Presenteeism - a Sign of Ineffiency!


The term “presenteeism” has been used widely in management magazines recently. It describes a situation in which we show up to work in a state where w...
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  4205 lectures
4205 lectures

Be Careful with Emotions - Risk of Contagion!


Our brain is wired to imitate others – when we are in the presence of people, our mirror neurons (our learning neurons functioning by imitating and sh...
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  6374 lectures
6374 lectures

Building a Service-Centered Business


The staff in contact with the customer takes an ambassador role for your organization and represents – to his eyes – the service quality of your busin...
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  3215 lectures
3215 lectures

Owning up to Change

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We are very ambivalent when it comes to change. We constantly ask our surrounding environment (spouse, colleagues, children, politicians, bosses, etc....
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  4355 lectures
4355 lectures

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