Christophe Ferrandou

Wrong recruitment? Don’t lie to yourself

While a successful recruitment is a game changer and the most important achievement for any manager, unfortunately it does not work out every time, even if you have done everything to make sure this would be a successful hiring. When you know that you have hired the wrong person, the worst possible decision is toContinue reading “Wrong recruitment? Don’t lie to yourself”

The real mission of a manager is to become useless

The day I understood that the real mission of a manager is to become useless is the day when I became a much better manager. When your focus is to grow your team so that they take over your job / role, then you start creating a lot more value for them, for your organization andContinue reading “The real mission of a manager is to become useless”

Lack of strategic alignment

This is a very pompous title for this post. I could also have written “how to win a free bottle of wine by always winning bets”. The reason is that I have very often bet and always won with some managers that if they go to someone in their team and ask them what theirContinue reading “Lack of strategic alignment”

You are not managing your team with day to day conversations

Don’t think you are managing your teams when talking about operational tasks daily with them. The team members with whom I have the deepest conversations are NOT the ones who work in the same office / city as mine, they are actually the ones who are very far, the ones I travel to meet with.Continue reading “You are not managing your team with day to day conversations”

Get the best when checking candidate’s References

In the recruitment process taking references is a very important process but very difficult. It has actually become even more difficult in the past few years because people are getting increasingly afraid of getting into trouble for saying anything negative about an ex-employee… so they either refuse to give references or they just say someContinue reading “Get the best when checking candidate’s References”