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The keys to lateral leadership

The keys to lateral leadership

Today, hierarchical authority is becoming less effective in obtaining the adhesion of partners and employees. Managers must thus develop their lateral leadership skills.
185b – Synopsis (8p.) Lateral Management
Exercising strategic leadership

Exercising strategic leadership

An organization’s success hinges before all else on its leader’s work behind the scenes to ensure the fine-tuning of internal dynamics. How can the workings of this strategic game be mastered?
311a – Synopsis (8p.) Leader's Positioning
Joining the leadership team—what are the stakes?

Joining the leadership team—what are the stakes?

Being appointed to a senior executive position or entering the executive committee sounds like a consecration. But the transition often proves much more difficult than imagined. How can you prepare for this major change?
266a – Synopsis (8p.) Leader's Positioning
Promote leadership values

Promote leadership values

Many companies seek to develop leadership by communicating on strong values. But these are often at odds with the reality in the field. How can you promote leadership values in a credible way?
257b – Synopsis (8p.) Values
Retain your lucidity despite the isolation of leadership

Retain your lucidity despite the isolation of leadership

Retaining a sense of lucidity about ourselves and the situations we manage is all the more difficult when we are in a leadership position. So how can we preserve our capacity for judgment?
239a – Synopsis (8p.) Open-mindedness
Rethink leadership

Rethink leadership

Faced with the challenges and constraints of the 21st century, managers have to adjust their roles and attitudes. How to adapt leadership to the demands of the working world of the future?  
218a – Synopsis (8p.) Shared Leadership
From heroic to authentic leadership

From heroic to authentic leadership

The observation of sustainably successful leaders highlights a reality that is clearly different from the fantasized figure of the conquering hero. How can we become aware of this gap between the fantasy and the reality to develop our leadership qualities?
216a – Synopsis (8p.) Courage
Foster collaboration within your leadership team

Foster collaboration within your leadership team

An executive committee’s ability to work as a team has a major impact on a company’s performance. What key drivers can be used to break down silos in the leadership team?
188b – Synopsis (8p.) Governance
Leadership beyond words

Leadership beyond words

How to be a persuasive leader? By mastering your body language, which is a more powerful vector of communication than words.
176b – Synopsis (8p.) Influence
Leadership speeches that work

Leadership speeches that work

How can you assert leadership in the art of oratory? Speakers must recognize that emotions play an essential role, in addition to logical arguments.
157b – Synopsis (8p.) Influence
Courage, an essential leadership quality

Courage, an essential leadership quality

Growing uncertainty and often contradictory demands make courage an essential leadership quality. But what is courage? How can people learn to understand and manage their fears?
136b – Synopsis (8p.) Courage
Mutual support, a lever of leadership

Mutual support, a lever of leadership

In the age of collaborative work, helping others is a key way to increase your influence. Yet, you need to know how to judiciously target this help. How can you develop your ability to help efficiently?
302b – Synopsis (8p.) Cohesion
Adaptive leadership, a key to sustainable performance

Adaptive leadership, a key to sustainable performance

There is no magic formula in management. It's the ability to adapt that makes the difference. How to adjust one's management style to the demands of the situation?
207b – Synopsis (8p.) Management Styles
Cultivate social networks

Cultivate social networks

Networking is an effective driver to break down organizational silos. How to build your own network and encourage your subordinates to do so as well?
139a – Synopsis (8p.) Transversality
Uniting your executive committee

Uniting your executive committee

The members of an executive committee must simultaneously position themselves as defenders of the collective interest and defenders of the issues associated with their specific roles. How can we integrate the diversity of visions in a constructive way?
329a – Synopsis (8 p.) Governance
Resolving the dilemmas of transparency

Resolving the dilemmas of transparency

Resolving the dilemmas that inevitably result from the implementation of transparency.
327b – A look at the news (2 p.) Trust
Strengthening your company’s trust capital

Strengthening your company’s trust capital

While the trust of stakeholders is essential to success, many companies only take an active interest in it when it is eroded by a crisis. How can we build our trust capital over the long term and turn it into a real competitive advantage?
326a – Synopsis (8 p.) Trust
Three pillars of trust

Three pillars of trust

Trust rests upon a delicate equilibrium. What conditions must you assemble to maintain it?
319b – A look at the news (2 p.) Trust
Developing your open-mindedness

Developing your open-mindedness

There is nothing natural about questioning our own choices. And yet, in a world in which the rules change quickly, it is more necessary than ever. How can we give ourselves the means to quickly reconsider our judgments?
314a – Synopsis (8p.) Open-mindedness
Defining your company’s corporate purpose

Defining your company’s corporate purpose

More and more companies are choosing to clearly state what they provide to society. But there is nothing anodyne about this approach: it must be at the same time collective and efficient, inspiring and rooted in reality. How can it be steered?
310a – Synopsis (8p.) Vision
Building a close-knit and efficient team

Building a close-knit and efficient team

The pandemic situation is leading to a period when working is reinvented. How can we combine the best of “everyone in the office” with this of “everyone working remotely”? This involves reviewing the fundamentals of what makes a team performant.
300a – Synopsis (8p.) Cohesion
Sharpen your sense of politics

Sharpen your sense of politics

We often consider only the downsides of the corporate political game. In reality, it constitutes a dimension that any business leader should master to increase his/her influence and ability to take action. How can you develop this essential leadership lever?
287a – Synopsis (8p.) Influence
Get back into the habit of asking questions

Get back into the habit of asking questions

Business leaders are rarely represented as people who question themselves. Yet, managers should be equally able to question as they are to affirm; but it seems this capability has somewhat been lost. How to get it back?
286b – Synopsis (8p.) Open-mindedness
Building trust

Building trust

The level of trust is generally low in business organizations, despite it constituting a real performance challenge. How can you identify the behaviors that enable trust to be build—or, conversely, that risk destroying it?
284b – Synopsis (8p.) Trust
Reaching an executive management position

Reaching an executive management position

Becoming a senior executive does not only involve taking on extended responsibilities: the conditions of success are often different from what we expected. How can you best prepare for these new demands?
283a – Synopsis (8p.) Job Transition
How to be an inspiring leader

How to be an inspiring leader

If employees feel increasingly less committed to their work, this is due to the attitude of their managers among other things. How can management stimulate their staff’s engagement?
282a – Synopsis (8p.) Leader's Positioning
Thinking differently

Thinking differently

We all have a natural preference for what is familiar to us. Yet, to adapt to circumstances, companies and their staff must constantly reinvent themselves, which requires that they get out of their usual thinking patterns. How can you nurture this healthy habit?
278b – Synopsis (8p.) Open-mindedness
Networking: a competency that needs developing

Networking: a competency that needs developing

A good network is a recognized factor of professional success. To develop it, an approach that is methodical and targeted is more productive than one that is empirical. How can you build a useful network without incommensurate effort?
273a – Synopsis (8p.) Influence
Addressing the quest for meaning

Addressing the quest for meaning

The issue of meaningfulness has today become a determinant in the life of business organizations. How can we identify our purpose and that of our companies—and transform this into an individual and collective performance engine?  
271b – Synopsis (8p.) Motivation
The illusion of objectivity

The illusion of objectivity

Reflexive thinking is indispensable to react and make decisions efficiently, but may also distort our perception and ossify our way of thinking. How can we avoid being trapped in our cognitive illusions?
257a – Synopsis (8p.) Open-mindedness