Populations
Collaborators
In a group setting, you will discover your thought processes and how they influence your relationships with others. Increasingly subjected to pressure to achieve results, a loss of meaning in their commitment to the company, and confusion regarding directives perceived as contradictory (satisfying the customer while reducing costs), employees are facing a new type of stress: existential stress. To address this, we offer a playful yet profound, recreational yet active activity based on "thinking together" as a regular practice. This practice encourages open communication and provides respite from the daily pressures of the workplace, all at a reasonable cost. This activity takes place during group consultations or workshops.
Human Resources Department
You are on the front line when social tensions arise within the company during reorganizations, strategic changes, mergers, etc. You are the one who interacts with employees and unions, listening to their demands and implementing management's strategy...read more. You also play a key role in recommending internal training programs and career development opportunities for senior managers. The DIALOGON method helps to: reduce stress for employees under high pressure, gain perspective and find meaning in their commitment to the company to better (re)position themselves internally and advance their career, improve collaborative thinking and therefore work more effectively with colleagues, clarify communication, foster a culture of openness conducive to creativity and acceptance of change, defuse potentially conflictual situations or managerial tensions to clearly identify and address problems. This method fosters communication between teams, particularly between teams with different cultures: different national cultures, different corporate cultures (working with a partner, with a team restructured following a merger, reorganization, or acquisition, working with suppliers or even clients), and different professional cultures (marketing and R&D, creative and sales, sales and technical, etc.). We offer various intervention methods tailored to your company's needs, which are detailed here.
Project teams, services, departments, business units...
You need to work well together to be productive and achieve your goals. This method allows you to explore a topic in depth by reflecting together, learning to listen to one another, and asking rigorous questions to develop actionable concepts. The facilitator encourages participants to clearly express their questions and objections, to consider alternatives to proposals without clinging to rigid positions of principle, in order to gain perspective on their own words and hear others' perspectives. They are encouraged not to use their discourse as a tool for power or social status, but rather as a vehicle for reasoned discussion, for example, to examine the best options for a decision concerning their team, department, or service. Furthermore, this method allows members to develop critical thinking skills that foster the exchange of ideas and the generation of creative alternatives that would likely not emerge in a meeting where members prefer to say what the leader wants to hear. There is a playful aspect to the method which, by provoking contradiction, also compels us to reconcile ourselves with it by proposing new alternatives using the dialectical method. For project teams, we offer several operational approaches: - Philosophy coaching workshops - Meaning-building seminars - Problem identification and resolution missions - Direct intervention during project meetings
Managers, team leaders, project managers
You need to set clear and consistent objectives for your teams, provide regular feedback to your employees, evaluate their actions against performance criteria, and maintain their motivation by building on their strengths and assets. In short, you must constantly create meaning, sometimes despite directives whose purpose you struggle to grasp. For you, the DIALOGON method allows you to become aware of your underlying assumptions and your worldview in order to clarify for yourself the kind of manager you want to be. Furthermore, by updating your own management practices during our workshops, you can identify behaviors you were unaware of that were hindering your effectiveness as a manager. Finally, by learning to give meaning to your employees' actions, they will become more engaged and take more initiative in achieving their objectives. We've developed a specific training program for you: creating meaning for yourself and your colleagues. But you can also choose to improve with your team by organizing or participating in philosophy coaching workshops.