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Resilience training should not make up for managerial responsibilities. Today’s more-with-less work climate means heavier workloads and higher pressure. So personal resilience has never been more necessary. The goal of corporate resilience training is to help employees to develop resources and healthy habits so as to better cope with work strains and stresses. It can […]

Swiss women demand greater gender equality. Last Friday saw nearly half a million women protest against Switzerland’s slow pace to gender equality. Overall, Swiss female professionals still earn 20% less than their male counterparts. The International Labour Organisation namely rates Switzerland among the last nations when it comes to equal pay between men and women […]

At times letting employees go might be necessary. Despite the high costs of replacing them. Accurately calculating the net gain – from a human and performance perspective – helps to justify turnover. Traditional HR metrics often focus on the costly resources invested in hiring and onboarding individual replacements. However, a more systemic approach also factors […]

Many managers have failed to evolve alongside changing organizational needs. For nearly a century, management has been conceived according to Henri Fayol’s five default functions. Planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling. This was all perfectly valid before a VUCA landscape became the norm. Indeed, AI is progressively replacing many human tasks. Consequently, managers are expected to think […]

L’Union des Communes Vaudoise (UCV) est l’association faîtière chargée de défendre les intérêts des communes vaudoises et de les promouvoir devant les autorités et le public. Réunissant 281 communes du Canton de Vaud, elle se veut un relais entre l’Etat et les communes et conseille ses membres dans les domaines stratégiques, financiers, juridiques et urbanistiques. […]

La Haute Ecole d’Ingénierie et de Gestion du Canton de Vaud (www.heig-vd.ch) offre des formations bachelor et master HES en ingénierie et économie d’entreprise ainsi que des formations postgraduées. Avec plus de 2’000 étudiant-e-s, elle est la plus grande école du réseau HES-SO. Favorisant l’innovation et la compétitivité des entreprises, elle participe au renouvellement du […]