Leadership Archives - Demoucelle

Pursuing your goal: what is the difference between resilience and stubbornness?

29 juin 2020 - Leadership / Positif

It is good to set ourselves targets – personal and professional – but sometimes things don’t pan out how we hope. When should we give up on our goals? How can we know when we are being resilient or stubborn? What are the signs that we need to change track?

‘Not yet’: the power words that boost positivity and resilience!

‘Not yet’ are two powerful words which when added to your negative, self-doubting sentences will help you find the mental strength to continue on, to try again … and again! Learn to use them and become more resilient and positive.

Getting through tough days, weeks and months.

19 mars 2020 - Leadership / Positif

These are indeed worrying times and many of us are feeling anxious and stressed – either we have a lot to do, or suddenly we find we have nothing to do. We have some tried and tested strategies to help you get through the coming days, weeks and months.

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Help your team have great meetings: a checklist for success!

27 janvier 2020 - Durable / Leadership

Setting aside time to prepare properly for their meetings will help your team be more effective. We have a handy checklist for meeting organisers to ensure they are ready and meetings run smoothly and arrive at good conclusions!

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How to ask your team for honest feedback

15 décembre 2019 - Durable / Leadership

Asking your team for feedback is not easy, but it is always worthwhile. We give you tips on how to ensure you get a well-considered response from all members of your team with clear examples of what you do well and areas for improvement. It will be good for you and for them, so don’t hesitate.

The number 1 mistake leaders make

12 novembre 2019 - Leadership

A couple of weeks ago, when facilitating a session at one of our clients, we ran into a typical situation: Managers expressed frustration because decisions were too often implemented without them being consulted. Sometimes, the CEO just want people to voice their opinion!

Our 5 tips to be on top of your day

13 août 2019 - Leadership

As most people, each day we have way more on our to-do list than we could ever accomplish. Even during the weekend and the holidays! There are just too many requests coming our way – and too many things we want to get done ourselves … Therefore, we had to find a system to get the best out of our day – making tremendous progress – feeling lots of satisfaction – without regrets or overwhelm. Here’s the 5 criteria we developed to get the best out of our day. We hope they will prove useful for you too.

What when you know you should act, but you have no time…

10 décembre 2018 - Durable / Leadership

We bet it happens to you too: you have those good intentions (taking more time for family, applying key insights from a book, communicating better towards your teams, …) – and after some time you realize you didn’t progress at all (or worse – you forgot about your intention). The reason? Most will answer ‘no time’. … Suite

How to avoid work overload (for you and your teams)

27 août 2018 - Leadership

Many ambitious overachievers want to … overachieve. And thus, we take on many initiatives, before adding some more initiatives… And at some point, we have to face it: There’s too much on our plate, and results are deteriorating. The question is: how to avoid work overload, and get to our ‘zone of highest performance’?

A great but somewhat controversial tip for effective time management

28 mai 2018 - Leadership

If only there were more hours in the day to get everything done… Unfortunately, there are no ‘more hours’… So what we recommend is to say no to C-tasks. A controversial idea for many, but so effective …