On vacation, my mood plummets dramatically. Everything bores me. I must pretend to have fun and not ruin my wife’s and children’s vacation. I miss work, which I am passionate about, while the day at the beach seems meaningless, and not restful at all. As soon as I can, I escape to the city, to […]

Today we celebrate International Women’s Day. This a good opportunity to think about the factors that hinder gender equality in the workplace and limit the presence of women in management positions. How? With five best sellers that help break the glass ceiling. Here are the titles: click on the link and go to the book […]

The situation in the cartoon strip seems to be paradoxical? Let’s analyze it carefully. For Mario and Julie, Tom is hardly on time (“he is always late about everything“) and also not so cooperative (“as soon as he can, he puts a spanner in the works“): a person like anyone happened to work with at […]

When you think a colleague has done something stupid, before indulging in hasty and definitive judgments, ask yourself three questions: What generated the incident that prompts you to make such a sharp verdict? How would I feel if I were in his/her shoes? Would I have done better under the same conditions? I am sure […]

Want to know why I ask you this question? I will tell you right now. I hear repeatedly about talents, just those people who Mother Nature is supposed to have endowed with natural gifts and who succeed seemingly without any effort: the world seems more and more divided between those who are naturally born to […]

Keeping attention while listening is becoming increasingly difficult for all of us; conscious listening, the kind that makes us fully appreciate the speaker’s message and enables us to take appropriate action, is getting rarer and rarer. And difficult! For, we easily realize that people are not listening, but we are not so aware of the […]

Today I want to share a post that I hope will help you improve the management of your time. I know, I have addressed this topic several times on my blog, dwelling on several aspects; recently, while updating the content of my training course, I re-read the posts written in the past and realized that […]

The outlook for the year to come talks of a tough year: the tail end of the pandemic, not yet defeated; a war in Europe and conflicts scattered all over the planet; a rise in inflation that threatens to slow down the economy’s growth momentum; and, last but not least, global warming that threatens to […]

We can define a flatterer as one who praises a person exceedingly with exaggerated wording and behaviours, to appear pleasant and/or be accepted, exploiting his/her vanity and gaining his/her favours. Sounds too much? Listen to Honoré de Balzac. Flattery never comes from big souls; it is the domain of small spirits, who make themselves even […]

As a manager, I can’t say that I was effective in giving feedback; and I discovered I made more than one mistake when designing my training courses focused on the topic. Now I am going to tell you about some mistakes I made; I will talk about the feedback the boss gives to the staff […]