Meetings – Ferrandou

Efficient and productive meetings

Meetings cost a fortune to companies. Direct costs (salaries of everyone attending the meetings) but the highest, most painful, cost is the cost of opportunity! When people attend meetings, they are not working on their top priorities. So meetings should be taken very seriously. There are very basic rules for a meeting to be productive:Continue reading “Efficient and productive meetings”

Hierarchy of needs

We all have the same basic needs in our job: 1 – proper equipment!Starting with a decent computer! Why to spend so much time trying to find a great candidate and then to welcome her with a poor equipment. This is a motivation killer. 2 – to know very clearly what is expected from usContinue reading “Hierarchy of needs”

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”