it’s good and well I do too
lowering your hands now it’s good
it’s my turn and well I too get up
every morning on Monday and the others
days telling me nice I’m going
work i will meet marc louis
or asma is together we’re going to do something
interesting thing
dutil of gratifying brief i’m
happy go to work
I have the chance no actually everybody
should be happy to go to work
and not just three quarters of the
hall who raised their hands today
but everyone
indeed we spend a third of our life
at work
so that’s my belief today
but that has not always been the case
for a long time I lived in the region
Parisian I was a big employee
company and every day I took
the subway to go to work and all
the days at 7 am I
crossed the same people the look
tired we were ants
joining their workplace and the
evening the same ants regaining our
anthill it was magical
it’s the life of millions of people and if
we replace the metro with the
jams
it may be the life of some
of you today you are
feel like an ant who understood his
task in the best possible course not
thinking we can on vacation retreat
maybe finally a moment where you will be
finally free and happy it’s up to 7
not exactly in 2014 that I’m
stumbled upon a TV show
entitled happiness at work tonight
there I had turned on my intrigued post
by this title a little paradoxical all the more
more than the subtitle were the
companies released from their bosses
second paradox
and when I turned off my phone an hour
and a half later the world had changed
I felt like copernic
after seeing the shadow of the earth
go on the moon I do not know if
you remember before copernic
the earth was the center of the world and the
stars turn around around her
and then one day
copernic to observe a lunar eclipse
like thousands of people before
him
there he understood that what he saw in
his telescope was the shadow of the earth
who was moving on the moon and order
things to change
it’s called the revolution
copernican good for me this report
on happiness at work
it was the same kind of revelations
suddenly the world in which I
lived was no longer the same what
I had seen in the report was
so much so far from what I
lived at the time
but so much so logical in
these companies by here free people
relay of power over their fate of
autonomy and especially people
who produce the workers the
technicians the salespeople months in 2014
I was a little ant in a
well- run organization and without any
autonomy and without any responsibility
in these companies say release the
people felt responsible for each
others responsible for their
responsible colleagues of their customers
responsible for their business and me
in 2014
I was surrounded by small ants who
was spending a lot of energy
get the chef’s attention and have a
promotion better or faster than the
little ant next door and then
it seemed to be walking in these
companies say free people
looked happy and business
in good health then I was
enthusiastic but I was convinced that
in certain conditions it was
possible to be happy at work
yes but here it is in 2014
I had absolutely no way of
modify the conditions under which
I worked and then a number
subway passed and one day I was
proposed to take the leadership of the
Reunion subsidiary of this big
society
I arrived at the meeting I found
a great team company
great but a company that
had gone through difficult times
and teams affected by this
recent history
suspicious with real opposition
between management and employees
and you still see today
explain the situation with his words me
makes you feel uncomfortable because this
division in the business is really
foreign to the design of
now
after all we are all in the same
boat in the first months of my
attendance at the meeting
I had the chance to go through a
employee satisfaction survey a
big inquiry investigation that’s taking place in
the whole world in this society in
which I’m still working and there it has
been an electroshock
the results for the subsidiary were
not good and above all it is clear
deterioration compared to the respondent
former
two years ago an element
particular shocked me a lot among the
hundred questions that were asked
one of them was form as well
in my company
everyone is respected whatever
either his job and he had to
position on a scale of 1 to 5
between strongly disagree and everything to
agrees and to this question alone
50% of employees answered
that they agreed in this
company I had just taken the
direction
one in two considered that
was not respected it was
bearable it was absolutely necessary to do
something to restore the smile
and trust and that together we
create an environment where let’s not be
happy
so I started thinking
and there I remembered this
issue on happiness at work that
I had seen two hours two years
before and I started
Copernican revolution
and then a few months ago I had some
the huge chance to meet the
boss of a French liberated company
one of the people who had not done
dream in this report
especially after having released his
company he goes off to take a tour of
world by boat and this person has us
told the story its story
personal and the story of his
business a little bit when I do it
with you today
and above all he answered the innumerable
questions that arise because we are
in a world centered on a
pyramidal organization of work and
the company released is a round world
who moves thanks to the energy the
collaborators but who are true
collaborators working together
labor and lots of questions
practices then arises when one
asked but how do we do in such
or such case he answered I did this and
it worked where I did that and it did not
not market but never ever you have to
do if you have to do that at the
question is how am I doing for
release my company
jean françois zobrist who is the first
French bosses to have made it to
the habit of answering by is it
and you it’s a little brutal I you the
rope but what a wonderful message this
that evening I went home with
four valuable luggage a concept on this
that I was doing the
certainty that I was right to do it
the belief that there was a path
to get there and that this path does
could be that mine since that day
from project to project of trial and error
gropings
I gave more autonomy more
responsibilities more freedom for
give you an example
it started with the creation of a
innovation room one day someone said
it would be nice we are a place for
work our innovative projects a
place that changes meeting rooms
usual you know that ‘s what we got
all in our big organizations
tables and chairs around a decoration
little impersonal well yes why not
who wants to work on the
about volunteers from different
services manifested themselves they have
formed a group and this group to
to emerge a natural leader
it was not the most senior it was not
the most experienced
it was someone with skills
techniques but especially a great
motivation for the project and some
natural leadership and at the beginning this leader
chosen by the group came to see me at
every step or every new idea
to validate with me pretty normal that’s
like that we usually do
one day I told him listen as long as
you stay in the budget envelope
which is allocated to this project I am doing you
trust
you do what you want and four
half months
we inaugurated our innovation room
that we called the casino and she is
magnificent
first it is
biodynamic like the amphitheater in
which we are refreshed by
natural air currents
the walls are turquoise blue all the
furniture is made with material from
recovery of pallets from cans
oil and rounded and then we have a table
of course because even when we
works on innovative projects bah
you have to put your things
but when it does not serve
meeting table
This inserts table tennis table
pong whenever we leave them
teams organize themselves transversely
in complete autonomy on a project that
are chosen the result is fantastic
And do you know why
well when we do something we have
want to do that we apply
decisions that we took care of even
implement skills that we have
want to acquire indeed no good and
when we are more
yesterday with different skills to
work on a project that we have chosen
apply decisions we made
care even as part of a vision
shared is powerful and we are
effective it’s banal it seems so much
obvious but what organization
works like that I started this
approach consciously and
structured there is one about it’s long and
complicated because it’s about building the
trust and that nothing is ever
acquired
we did a lot of things already in
more of this salino a group of
parents organized a christmas party for
children of general collaborators
in the crh companies that take care of that
and this party takes place this afternoon
I’m sure she’ll be great a
another group of volunteers
different to work to create and
conduct a satisfaction survey of
collaborators along the water to
not wait for the big inquiry that
fall from the seat every two years a
third group worked on
organization of work and implementation
telework place
and then we can do a lot more
I’m sure but we learn together
advancing
has more and more organizations chosen
this way smes large groups
of aegis administration and even I
heard recently after
others each in his own way
we are building a world
better a world where work could
to be a source of happiness then maybe
you tell yourself how it me
regards after all it’s easy for
she is director she does this
she wants
yes it’s true I’m director and
I have the power to change things
in my organization but maybe that
some of you here also have this
power to change things in their
service in their company
I hope to have convinced you that
it was possible to be is to render
the others happy at work and if you
ask me how do I do you
would answer do you manage
m
and for those of you for those
of you who do not have the power to
change things in their
organization
because it’s still the case of the
majority of people today I want
to tell you a revolution is in
walk and it will concern us one day
in the meantime you still have the
possibility of widely disseminating this
idea for it to reach the fastest
possible people who decide in your
organizations this ideal is simple it’s
possible to be is to make others
happy at work by practicing the
trust thank you
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