Advice to my daughter – tomorrow is your first day
How to start in a male-dominated industry. What are the skills to have? What are the traps to avoid? You just got your dream job. Congrats! After doing brilliant studies, you now have a beautiful diploma. Passionate about the industry, you applied for a job as a project engineer in a big company which isn’t […]
My team of No Super-Chickens
This title is a reference to an excellent TEDx that explains why a team of “super-chickens” doesn’t work. If you take a look at the teams that I created or led over the years, you’ll find all types of profiles. People with very different careers, life experiences and diplomas. Some are more visionary, they excel […]
Recipe 9 : get out of your ivory tower
In the last article, we talked about how difficult it can be to settle into a first management position, and how few people are prepared for the stress they’re about to face. To handle the situation, some will stay in their offices and isolate themselves. Comfortable offices, between the coffee machine and the canteen, in […]
Recipe 8 : – Do not take yourself seriously
You have followed all my advice, and you’ve just been promoted to an executive manager’s position. First of all, congratulations. Or you haven’t been promoted yet and you aspire to become a manager someday. Either way, in this article, I’m going to give you the most valuable advice regarding job changes and promotions. It’s simple: […]
Recipe 7 : Stay Honest
Today, I want to address a recurrent question in companies, heard and told again. Even beyond the professional sphere, it’s a concept that we were taught before we even knew how to write. Yet, it’s not an easy question to answer. Today, we’re going to tackle the question of honesty, and more precisely honesty in […]
Recipe 6 : Stop the train
In a previous article, I talk about the fact that being a mother and having a career aren’t mutually exclusive and that you shouldn’t have to pick. I’m not going to go back on this, but today, I’d like to talk about priorities. It’s difficult to be happy in your professional life if you’re unhappy […]
Recipe 5 : Making the difference
In big companies, you’ll have to change jobs, more or less often. Most of us (at least those who read this blog) hope that the way we perform in our current position will be decisive for a future promotion and will be a part of our career’s overall progression. However, to put the odds on […]
Recipe 4: What do you want people to think of you?
What do you want people to think of you? Or rather, when people think of you, which image comes to mind? Is it: “She is nice and always ready to help. ” Uh … that’s nice, but it doesn’t really help you progress in your career. That’s what we think of a good friend, the […]
Recipe 3 – Do not take things personally
It may seem contradictory to some of my previous writings… indeed, I advocate finding a job that we love, with values in which we identify. This often involves personal commitment. And that’s exactly why I want to write about this topic. It’s so easy to take everything personally. A negative e-mail? “My boss does not […]
Recipe 2 – stepping out of your comfort zone
A friend who is very invested in the feminist debate was telling me about a bias he experienced recently. When a manager (him, for instance) has two positions to attribute to two equally skilled candidates, they tend to give the simplest one to the woman and the more complicated one to the man. He seeks […]