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Catherine Aygen
Consultante Formatrice & Coach en Prise de Parole en Anglais | Dirigeante d’A Star Formation (Qualiopi) | Top 3 europĂ©en de discours improvisĂ© | Appli IA d’analyse de discours
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October 11, 2022
Vous aimez les #rĂ©unions en ligne ?Â đŸ€” La rĂ©ponse est probablement qu'elles sont un mal nĂ©cessaire... L'autre jour, j'ai Ă©coutĂ© un #podcast de Harvard Business Review (Ideacast - je vous conseille fortement) avec le PDG de GitLab, une entreprise 100% remote, qui a des idĂ©es radicales pour les rĂ©unions : Chez Gitlab, leurs rĂ©unions durent 25 minutes et ils ne font jamais de prĂ©sentations pendant les rĂ©unions. C'est vrai, aucune prĂ©sentation pendant une rĂ©union đŸ€Ż Vous vous demandez peut-ĂȘtre comment ils partagent l'information : s'il y a quelque chose d'important Ă  prĂ©senter, la personne enregistre sa prĂ©sentation et l'envoie. S'il y a des questions ou des points de discussion, ils seront abordĂ©s lors d'une rĂ©union ultĂ©rieure. And guess what ? Comme les employĂ©s ne sont pas toujours en rĂ©union, ils ont le temps de regarder les prĂ©sentations enregistrĂ©es qui sont importantes pour eux ! Que pensez-vous de cette idĂ©e ?
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October 11, 2022
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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