Discover our best practices to improve your management methods, boost the productivity and well-being at work of your employees, but also facilitate collaborative work and information sharing within your team.
A continuous improvement plan is the ideal way to boost your company's performance!🚀 This concept originated in Japan with the Kaizen method, meaning "change for the better." It's based on one simple idea: always seek to optimize, adjust, and evolve, never resting on...
In nearly four billion years of evolution, nature has developed incredibly resilient and efficient biological systems. So, why don't we seek more inspiration from nature for our own sustainable innovation? That's the trend called biomimicry! Biomimicry has actually...
Project management can be complex, with so many individual tasks and deadlines to track, resources to move around, and last-minute changes to juggle. If you want everything to go smoothly (as we all do!), you need to find a way to keep your team aligned and everyone...
Team output, cultural impact, and strategy are all shaped by leaders. It’s important for business leaders to have organizational and decision-making skills, but one of the most critical attributes for successful leadership is emotional intelligence (EI). Emotional...
Today, it's no longer enough for a company to exist just to exist. Customers, employees, and even investors want more than that: they want meaning, clarity, and direction. 🌟 Unfortunately, many companies aren’t transparent enough with their stakeholders. Take our...
In its 2024 report, Deloitte found that nearly 90% of all Generation Z and Millennials stated that having a sense of purpose at work is important for their job satisfaction and well-being. No surprise, then, that purpose-driven companies are growing by leaps and...
A heavy workload, or a mismanaged workload, can lead to anyone burning out. As a manager, it’s your job to implement key workload management strategies to help support every employee and task. Done right, workload management can help bring complex projects together...
Ever get the impression that you spend more time checking on your gang's work and even making decisions for them? Never fear, there's an exit ramp ahead to get out of this vicious traffic jam: give the power to the people! According to Forbes, employees who feel...
We often think salaries are the most important argument for attracting and retaining top talent. Well, think again: team cohesion is just as crucial! According to a Gusto survey, 54% of American employees have stayed with a company longer than their best interest...
It's hard to perform better at work when you don't know exactly what’s expected of you. Unclear objectives, sporadic feedback, ill-defined roles: this is the daily reality for many employees. These organizational shortcomings lead not only to project stagnation and...
For many managers, improving teamwork efficiency is a daily challenge—even more so when teams are spread across different locations. Between meetings that drag on and on, internal team conflicts, and the constant need to deliver ever-improved results while keeping...
Offboarding is the process of an employee leaving the company. Far from being a simple farewell or good-bye, this is a process with a few steps that shouldn't happen overnight! 🗺️ Offboarding encompasses the handling of administrative formalities, internal...
We all know that business transformation often can freak teams out. We're afraid of not being able to adapt, of losing the wheel. Whether we like it or not, though, change is inevitable in the workplace! Simply recognizing you need to change—and then actually making...
Unproductive meetings, we know them all. It's a practice that many a company would love to banish, and yet they rarely achieve this noble goal. On average, 71% of our meetings are considered ineffective. The big culprits: insufficient preparation, trouble structuring...
Today's professional world is in constant evolution! In this context, the notion of "benevolent leadership"—as opposed to more traditional "authoritarian leadership"—is proving increasingly important! The figures speak for themselves: one survey conducted by the...
It's a gesture all employees appreciate but rarely address openly and proactively when it's missing: recognition. According to a study by the Jean Jaurès Foundation, 72% of British employees feel that their work is not properly recognized—either by their manager or by...
What if implementing a CSR approach (Corporate Social Responsibility) could also improve your company's productivity and bottom line? That's what the concept of sustainable performance is all about! Far from the traditional "make-a-profit-at-any-cost" models, this...
Change management can cause some serious headaches for people in organizations and businesses. Among employee resistance, hidden costs, and unexpected delays, the process can quickly turn into a minefield… To get beyond these challenges, we'd like to stress...
One area of business management that organizations should be prioritizing is employee recognition. The reality is that it is no longer as simple as offering the best benefits package out of your competitors. If you want to have a cohort of happy and motivated...
Do your employees seem to avoid taking initiative? Promoting psychological safety at work can unleash their potential! This term is used to describe an environment where employees are not afraid to speak up : something that 89% of all American employees consider...
According to Gartner, half of all change management projects end in failure! The cause: too much resistance to change, a lack of strategy, poor communication, or an over-ambitious timetable. The solution to these obstacles? Methodology... and, of course,...
All innovative businesses will prioritize group collaboration on projects, particularly for design and company-wide changes. In fact, research from Deloitte shows that 83% of digitally maturing companies use cross-functional teams. And with 69% of companies reporting...
It doesn’t matter how good you are at your job – if you’re not able to work collaboratively, you’re not going to be very productive. Ergo, it’s imperative that your teams feel comfortable working together. However, in 2023, remote working means that creating a...
According to a Harvard Business Review study, 90% of executives around the globe replied that they believe the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation of their organization. A transformation that has helped boost team productivity, centralize...
Collaboration is a key part of success in any workplace. Working together allows employees to share ideas, brainstorm, and more effectively find solutions. However, collaboration is not always easy to achieve; it requires clear communication, trust, and common goals....
There’s an old saying that a team is only as strong as its weakest player. But, if you subscribe to the school of collective intelligence, a team’s strength isn’t necessarily dependent on how strong or weak individual players are—but instead, on how strong those...
A 2017 study by Kronos revealed that 76 percent of organizations fail to properly use onboarding practices, with only 47 percent of responders considering their onboarding process effective in retaining new hires. With onboarding such an integral part of a new...
There’s no denying that hybrid work is here to stay. In fact, a whopping 58 percent of workers worked remotely at least part of the time in 2022, with 35 percent of job holders working from home full-time. And as more people work from more locations, there is an...
Managing a project is a big responsibility. There are a lot of moving parts, from how to assign tasks to how to manage communication to how to ensure deliverables are being completed on time. And if you don’t manage all of those moving parts effectively, it could lead...
A company’s success relies, in large part, on how productive its workforce is. And if you want to inspire your employees to be more productive, one of the best things you can do? Try to make them happier. Research has shown that happiness at work plays a huge part in...
When you’re managing relationships with outside partners—whether that’s clients, suppliers, vendors, or other third-parties—you need the right tools to ensure that things stay organized and run smoothly. And one of those tools? An extranet. An extranet can offer an...
According to research from McKinsey, nearly three in four companies (72%) use social technologies in some way within their organization—including intranets. Intranets can drive a variety of positive changes at your company (for example, according to research from...
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More and more organizations are embracing a hybrid or fully remote work environment—and that means more and more employees are accessing company systems, data, and information from a variety of devices and locations, making identity and access management more...
More companies than ever are shifting to a remote or hybrid model. And in order to keep their employees effective and productive, organizations are having to rethink the way they work and the way their teams function—and that includes rethinking their approach to...
According to this Adecco study, nearly 80% of the world's leaders believe that their companies will now organize themselves according to a hybrid work model. How will managers have to adapt? And what skills will they have to develop to cope with this new work...
Organizations have not waited for the arrival of enterprise social networks (ESN) to involve their employees in innovation or knowledge sharing (= knowledge management). But social technologies have completely renewed the game, providing these same approaches with the...
So let's say you're convinced about the need for and relevance of deploying an enterprise social network within your company. Fantastic! That said, the need to mobilize other stakeholders to get the green light, a budget, a project leader and team, a schedule, etc. is...
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