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Catherine Aygen
Consultante Formatrice & Coach en Prise de Parole en Anglais | Dirigeante d’A Star Formation (Qualiopi) | Top 3 européen de discours improvisé | Appli IA d’analyse de discours
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March 17, 2023
Avez-vous déjà essayé l'évaluation Kolbe Assessments ? Il mesure votre capacité d'action, vos inclinaisons naturelles à résoudre des problèmes. 👉 Vous êtes peut-être fort en "fact-finding" : vous êtes doué pour rassembler et partager des informations. 👉 Peut-être vous êtes bon en "follow-through", vous êtes fort en systèmes et en organisation. (Yeah...not me 😰) 👉 Si vous êtes un "quick start", vous aimez l'action et l'improvisation, l'incertitude ne vous dérange pas. 👉 Et les "implementors" aiment trouver et créer des solutions tangibles. Comme toutes les évaluations, elle est intéressante tout en présentant des limites... Mais cette histoire illustre les problèmes d'être "quick start". La semaine dernière, j'ai publié sur YouTube une vidéo qui j'ai envoyé également à ma liste. Heureusement, une amie (a fact-finder, thank you Melanie Hussell) m'a signalé que ce n'était pas la bonne vidéo : la première minute était moi en train de me coiffer et de répéter mon discours 😅 Et puis, le même jour, sans lire aucune instruction, j'ai essayé de télécharger un logiciel d'e-learning sur mon site web, et j'ai fait sauté tout le site. (Milles mercis à Amelie Piñero, développeuse de sites web au top, qui a tout réparé très rapidement). 😅😅😅 La morale de cette histoire est qu'il faut toujours lire les instructions, vérifier ses vidéos avant de les publier (probablement évident pour tous ceux qui ne sont pas des quickstarts) et s'entourer de de tous types de personnes.
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March 17, 2023
Last week I had one of the scariest experiences of my life. I was flying back from Amsterdam to Nice after the Toastmasters international conference. Everything was as usual, until the pilot announced, “We’re going back to Amsterdam.” Everyone in the plane groaned. But then he added, “There’s an electrical fault which has affected the brakes and we don’t know if the back up braking system has been affected or not. We need to go back to Amsterdam to land on the longest runway possible. The crew will now prepare you for an emergency landing in 30 minutes.” The worst thing was that I could hear in the pilot’s voice that he was stressed. I looked at the crew’s faces and although they were calm, their faces showed that they were scared. The next 30 minutes were spent practising the brace position, removing all jewellery, glasses, tightening our seatbelts, learning how to open the emergency doors. We were told to study the safety card, which everyone did more intently than ever before! And like most of the other people on the plane, I was quietly worrying that we’d crash at the end of the runway and perhaps this was how I was going to die. We landed in brace position, with the crew shouting “brace for landing”. Luckily the emergency brakes worked 😅 If you’re expecting me to tell you that I have now changed my life for the better and I’m giving everything up to become a life coach… …I’m not 😆 I did say to myself, “Only trains from now on”, but I still had to get home and that involved two flights the next day. What I did realise was sometimes you have to give up control and put yourself in the hands of people who are trained for this. Also that after we landed, all the passengers were talking to each other, everyone was friendly and helpful. And when I saw some of my fellow passengers the next day, it’s like we were friends, bonded by this experience. And that made me think, why can’t we always create these human connections, even when we’re not in such an emotionally charged situation? So that is my resolution from this experience: make more human connections with everyone around me. (Photo taken from my flight home the next day: I’ve never been so happy to see the Îles Lerins 😁)
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