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Evolving the company culture: a pragmatic approach

Evolving the company culture: a pragmatic approach

Evolving the company culture is one of the main challenges to conducting successful strategic transformations. How about relying on the existing rather than venturing into a logic of disruption?
284a – Synopsis (8p.) Corporate Culture
Reinforce the company culture

Reinforce the company culture

Companies with a strong culture perform better over time than their competitors. But what is meant by company culture? And how can you turn it into an asset to mobilize your teams?
263b – Synopsis (8p.) Corporate Culture
Realigning culture and strategy

Realigning culture and strategy

The culture of an organization constantly reshapes itself to remain aligned with strategy. But obstacles sometimes stand in this convergence’s way. How can we draw inspiration from history’s great reformers to succeed in transforming our culture?
324a – Synopsis (8 p.) Corporate Culture
Create a culture of accountability

Create a culture of accountability

Our defensive reflexes cause us to hold onto old habits, and thus obstruct change. How can we address issues in a more constructive and responsible manner?
210b – Synopsis (8p.) Accountability
Mergers: building a bridge between cultures

Mergers: building a bridge between cultures

Achieving successful mergers and acquisitions by working to bring cultures closer together.
324b – A look at the news (2 p.) Reorganization
Converting your organization to a digital culture

Converting your organization to a digital culture

Although digital transformation has become a necessity, achieving a successful one is more a question of culture than of technology. How can we “change everything” to maintain a competitive advantage in a world gone digital?
309a – Synopsis (8p.) Digitalization
Fostering a more inclusive culture

Fostering a more inclusive culture

Diversity, equity and inclusion are invaluable and complementary assets for companies. But converting good intentions into concrete action is far from easy. How can we move forward while avoiding missteps?
306a – Synopsis (8p.) Diversity and Inclusion
Differentiate through corporate identity

Differentiate through corporate identity

To differentiate a company in saturated markets, its project, convictions and culture are increasingly important. How can you promote them in a compelling and credible manner?
252a – Synopsis (8p.) Corporate Culture
Changing behavior

Changing behavior

How can you ensure lasting change and avoid falling back into the same old habits? Lasting behavioral change requires a combination of logic and emotions.
192b – Synopsis (8p.) Change Management
The keys to proactivity

The keys to proactivity

Employees who seize the initiative: that is every manager's dream. But this attitude is far from being simple to establish in practice. How can we understand the mechanisms of proactivity to turn it into a key to collective efficiency?
346a – Synopsis (8 p.) Accountability
Rethinking the loyalty and engagement of talents

Rethinking the loyalty and engagement of talents

In a working world in which retaining and mobilizing employees has never been so difficult, what can we act on to protect our teams from the widespread trend toward disengagement?
333a – Synopsis (8 p.) Recruitment and Retention
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
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
Harness the power of habit to manage change successfully

Harness the power of habit to manage change successfully

Many change projects fail because people return to their former behavioral patterns. Yet this is not inevitable: how can one use habit as a supportive—rather than obstructive—change management driver?
220a – Synopsis (8p.) Change Management
Grasp the invisible dynamics of the organization

Grasp the invisible dynamics of the organization

Organizations often have a life of their own, whatever the efforts of their leaders to control it. How can you decode organizational dynamics to better influence them?
204b – Synopsis (8p.) Change Management
Human error, the greatest safety challenge

Human error, the greatest safety challenge

Human errors are the source of most accidents. And they are often due to staff who were neither incompetent nor careless. How can we make our actions more reliable by developing a safety culture?
302a – Synopsis (8p.) Health and Safety
Successfully onboarding new employees

Successfully onboarding new employees

Very few companies have a really satisfying onboarding process. Yet, the latter largely determines the commitment and loyalty of the newcomers. How can you welcome new staff members really well?
294b – Synopsis (8p.) Recruitment and Retention
Facilitating open expression in the company

Facilitating open expression in the company

Knowing how to speak honestly to one another is absolutely critical inside a company. Yet, many reasons push us, on the contrary, to hold our tongue. How can we set up the necessary conditions to enable free expression?
293b – Synopsis (8p.) Communication
Liberating the company: returns of experience

Liberating the company: returns of experience

The notion of a liberated company remains controversial: some see in it as an ideal model, others as a deception. In any event, it raises a key question: how can you combine individual autonomy and collective efficiency?
289a – Synopsis (8p.) Accountability
Building a resilient brand

Building a resilient brand

Some brands are capable of developing a type of resilience. Although they cannot avoid crises, they know how to bounce back in adversity thanks to their privileged relationship with a core set of loyal customers. How do they go about it?
289b – Synopsis (8p.) Brand
Optimizing employee experience

Optimizing employee experience

An increasing number of companies are striving to treat their employees as well as they treat their clients. How can you rely on employee experience to develop your company’s performance and attractiveness?
272b – Synopsis (8p.) Recruitment and Retention
Collaborate with your customers

Collaborate with your customers

While the digital revolution has given consumers the possibility to involve themselves in the life of companies, very few businesses actually take advantage of this opportunity. How can you transform your consumers into privileged partners?
258a – Synopsis (8p.) Customer Relationship
Base your strategy on your distinctive capabilities

Base your strategy on your distinctive capabilities

The race for competitive advantage often leads to endless escalation. How can you break this cycle? One solution is to refocus your strategy on the specific capabilities that strongly differentiate your company.
255b – Synopsis (8p.) Strategy Development
Achieve success with extended collaborations

Achieve success with extended collaborations

Some innovations cannot stem from a single company. In domains such as radical innovation or sustainable development, the concerted mobilization of numerous actors may be necessary. How can you successfully achieve such extended cooperations?
254b – Synopsis (8p.) Extended Company
The holacratic company: beyond the utopia

The holacratic company: beyond the utopia

The concept of the holacratic company attempts to give employees a maximum of autonomy by eliminating the constraints which hobble initiative. What underlies the success of organizations which have adopted this management approach?
248a – Synopsis (8p.) Reorganization
Break down organizational silos

Break down organizational silos

“Siloed” organizations, which used to be highly effective, prove less relevant in today’s complex environments. How can we avoid the downside of an organizational model in which we had previously found so many qualities?
247a – Synopsis (8p.) Transversality
The secret of successful alliances

The secret of successful alliances

Alliances can provide considerable development leverage—provided that they run effectively on an everyday basis. How can you draw lessons from experience to maximize the chances of success?
234a – Synopsis (8p.) Extended Company
Encourage cooperation

Encourage cooperation

Cooperation between teams is a key driver of agility, but it is not easy to establish. How can we create the conditions to get people to want to invest in the collective game?
232b – Synopsis (8p.) Transversality
Stimulate job satisfaction

Stimulate job satisfaction

A recent study shows that energy at work primarily feeds on the conviction that we can progress effectively. How can we use this lever to optimize resources by reinforcing staff work satisfaction?
212a – Synopsis (8p.) Motivation
Rehabilitate conflict

Rehabilitate conflict

Conflict can actually enhance performance when constructive discord reflects important company issues. How to ensure that disagreements add value and do not degenerate into destructive power struggles?
207a – Synopsis (8p.) Conflicts