Tag - Crisis Manangement - Frédéric Aunis

2020, ENTREPRENEURS ARE PREPARING FOR MAJOR CHANGES IN HUMAN RESSOURCES STRATEGY

Par Frédéric Aunis le , 14:37

Growth comes from a Client Centric approach of innovation and organisational development. Growth will also come from ajusting the educational investments on generations. In a highly competitive and changing world the HR issues for managers lie in their capacity to create dynamic conditions to withhold the skills and operational expertise of the "Seniors" and lever on the new skills and potentials of the "X-Y-Z" generation.

Why?

Because in the next 10 years many of the "babyboomers" will have reached the age of 60 with a life experience in their field but very often a complicated relation with technology and the working organisation that goes with it. Human relations will be at the heart of the transformation with the necessity to favor mobility, creativity and flexibility of the mindsets.

Why?

Because in the next 10 years the new generations arriving on the workplace will bring new behaviors and reactions to work and management authority. The "Y" generation is most certainly the first generation to be looked at with so much care by sociologists and HR manager not to say top managers.The shortcut is to combine this new generation with the internet revolution, because it is this generation that was born with it. But is the shortcut enough when we look at the other components of this generation: the relation to the family in a society where divorce has spread, the relation to the world where the Western Culture is being challenged by the irising influence of China and India...

In our societies, whatever the size of the organisation, small or large, the sociological components of generations have become as complex as the cultural components of a given country or community.

Facing this complexity, managers in all fields face a unique and amazing human challenge: to create winning teams that surf on cultural and generational dynamics.

It is definitely a challenge for "HR" strategies as well as for the educational strategies and investments of each and every organisation in every field of activity. And it is not just about encapsulating the know-how of the seniors on a web to transmit it to new generations, it is about making generations dream, work and live together in operational teams.

I remember being taught that, at the age of 30, an individual was a "produit fini" (the French expression for manufactured good but with the meaning of completed and therefore difficult to modify in any substantial way!!). My operational experience as General Manager or Sales Manager in France, Ireland, Brazil and Turkey have proven to me that in a way it is true but that with strategic anticipation and commitment it is definitely possible.

The challenge is a human value and ressources challenge and not only a technical and organizational one

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MINDMAPPING TO CREATE, EXPLORE, SHARE

Par Frédéric Aunis le , 14:59

You want to generate a maximum of creative, efficient ideas on a project, on business trends and crisis issues: Mindmapping is for you.
You want to connect a group or team to a management issue and share the different points of view: again Mindmapping can be for you.
You want to brainstorm and grasp the ideas of every participant, but visualise the common ground of understanding: Mindmapping is for you.

I discovered Mindmapping in 1994 by reading "Dessinez-moi l'Intelligence"(Mind Mapping) by Tony Buzan, the creator of the method. Using it ever since in so many way, I found it particularly "amasing" in intercultural situations. I remember the first time I met a group of Indian Entrepreneurs and I had to share with them World Business Trends that could affect their business in India. I felt unconfortable delivering just a message coming from outside...so I decided to start my conference by a short mindmapping session and asked all participants to draw a circle and write down "business trend" in the middle of the circle. I gave them one minute to concentrate and to ask themselves what were the Trends that, they thought, were going to impact their business in the next 18 months. After a few minutes I stopped the exercise and ask them to draw, by teams of 8, a Mindmap the size of a paperboard and to transfer the exact words that each one had noted on his or her individual mindmap. It was then easy for me to drebrief the findings of each group, to organise them in common grounds and differences but more so to link them to my conference. I must say I was once again amazed by the result: at the end of the conference the echo was that the conference had hit the right topics, that I had a clear understanding of their preoccupations, and that the ideas that had emerged were operational.
There are many books by Tony Buzan around mindmapping and its various impacts on enhancing your memorisation skills, on speed reading and of course creativity and decision making, and what I discovered and adopted spontaneously, are the mindmapping softwares (www.imindmap.com, www.mmdfrance.fr), that enable me today to generate ideas and export them directly into Word or Powerpoint files...
Do you use mindmapping ? Yes ? Tell us about it here

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WHY MY BLOG

Par Frédéric Aunis le , 10:20

Topics like Crisis and Change Management, Intercultural and Intergenerational Relations in Management, Education and Blended Learning, the emerging role of the manager as an educator to conduct change, are some subject of interest
Photographer by passion, actor and observer of Business Management in a variety of companies and countries, I shall try to give an « Eye Opener » view on today
« BLOGGING », an expérience that throws you into the 21rst century, into « New Times », and that has all the ingrédients of a Factor of Change. After 20 years of expérience in the L’Oréal Group, I am buying myself « New Times », and it becomes natural for me to back my « New Times » on technology and expérience that change too
The present crisis is throwing the world in a moment of structural changes like maybe never expérienced before by the présent generations. I decided to change my Professional life and to take the « Time » to think and share openely before moving.
But do I have «the « Time » to think it over ? In the past years, « Time » has become a subject of great interest to me. Isn’t amasing to notice that our life expectation has risen in a dramatic way, giving us more « Time », that technology has allowed us to get what we want, when we want in 1 clic, and therefor creating more « Time » for other things. And although this is true, we keep on feeling that we never have « Time ».
Is it that we don’t have OR that we don’t take the « Time » ?
« Blogging » came to me these past week as an obvious opportunity to take the « Time », the « Time » to share my thoughts on business and poeple management, « Time » to confront with those that want to confront on these thèmes.
« Blogging » came to me as the obvious opportunity to be part of the changing process that has emerged and is gaining momentum like never before.
Where will that take me and those that conect to this blog, « Time » will tell

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