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Isabelle Dube
The Press

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corporate hackers

Changing the world without necessarily changing jobs: this is what the Junior Chamber of Commerce of Montreal (JCCM) and Fondaction offer with their Generation of Impact training program. The first cohort of 20 emerging leaders working in businesses in Greater Montreal began the program in October and will complete it in April 2023. Workshops, conversations, exchange panel, evening focus group, the young professionals will have thirty hours together to redefine success in the business world. “There is already a strong enthusiasm for young people who want to generate major changes within their organizations,” explains Céline Martin, senior advisor, public affairs, at the JCCM, over the phone. The program will transform intrapreneurs into corporate hackers. The idea is inspired by hackers IT professionals who find vulnerabilities in a company’s systems, but in the case of corporate hackers, is to improve it. The next session will take place in 2023.

The trend

Benevolent Leadership

How do you cultivate benevolent leadership? How to accelerate the application of ESG criteria in companies? How to develop your thinking outside the framework? These are the themes that will be addressed during the workshops on October 26 at the first annual gathering of the School of Management Sciences of the University of Quebec in Montreal (ESG UQAM). “The Decadra event is to show what we do best at ESG in finance, responsible consumption, equity, diversity, inclusion and human resources and work psychology. We are really solid as a school. And people don’t know much about ESG,” says ESG professor Jacques Forest, CHRP, over the phone, who will lead a collaborative workshop on benevolent leadership. “If you give circumstances to the human being allowing him to have his vitamins of autonomy, competence and affiliation, you will reap well-being and performance, explains the professor, who has just published the book Unleash motivation with self-determination theory. What we are good at at ESG is research in human resources, among other things, in work psychology. It’s not just people in ponchos taking herbal teas, it’s science. The self-determination theory has been tested for more than 50 years by several hundred researchers. » Pierre Fitzgibbon, Minister of Economy, Innovation and Energy, Yves Lalumière, CEO of Tourisme Montréal and graduate of ESG UQAM, and Michel Leblanc, President of the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal, will participate to conversations.

The reflection

Quality work as a pillar of a better society

This is what the Interuniversity Research Center on Globalization and Work (CRIMT) and more than 20 other partner centers are proposing at an international symposium that will take place from October 27 to 29 at HEC Montréal. A bilingual and hybrid event where more than 200 participants, researchers and practitioners from various backgrounds and different countries will come to discuss, debate and present their research during forums and workshops. What makes the job better or worse? What if inclusion was a lever for improving work? What are the psychosocial and quality of work life risks of hyperconnectivity? A large part of the sessions will benefit from simultaneous interpretation on site and remotely.

The board

Test the worst scenarios

In this period of uncertainty with the war in Ukraine, soaring energy prices in Europe, the tightening credit market and inflation, Jonathan Tétrault, managing partner of Sagard’s Montreal office, suggests to his clients venture capital-backed entrepreneurs five stocks to prepare to survive or even thrive in these uncertain economic times. He says leaders will quickly realize whether to play “attack” or “defense” in the months and years to come. He suggests, among other things, to clearly assess the potential impact of a recession on your organization, to make action plans, to test the worst scenarios, to re-evaluate short and long-term projects, to analyze its competitors and to have the right frame of mind. “Successful leaders must also have the ability to explain how once unthinkable decisions will allow the company to survive and prosper during the recession, explains in his article Jonathan Tétrault. Understand the “why?” keeps employees engaged. Finally, it is imperative not to underestimate the emotional impact on the management team and the potential politics that can result from navigating a stressful environment,” he concludes.

Source: Sagard

The number

12

Leading teams in hybrid mode, also known as distributed mode, can quickly lead to success or slowly lead to failure, recent studies on the subject reveal, says Mario Côté, consultant, speaker and trainer at Gestion conseil Mario Côté inc., in a video article published in Carrefour RH. If the conditions for success are in place, he explains, everything will be fine. However, if communications are not optimal, it is no longer possible to make short adjustments at any time as in the days when all employees were together in the office, which slows down the process of failure. . “Knowing how to adjust according to the circumstances and needs of individuals will require the leader to have a high level of emotional intelligence and agility,” he says. Situational leadership could be an option as well as transformational leadership. The size of the teams must also be reviewed. According to studies, the teams that work best in hybrid/distributed mode are those of a dozen members.