Ce numéro publié aujourd’hui par la Revue RH aurait été surréaliste il y a à peine deux ou trois ans. Le basculement que nous avons vécu vers le numérique et le virtuel n’est pas arrivé graduellement, mais de façon fracassante. Si je prends mon propre exemple, je me souviens que des collègues et clients étaient impressionnés en mars 2020 car j’avais une solution où on pouvait être plusieurs personnes en vidéo à l’écran…en même temps!

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The Essentials of Leadership training aims to demystify leadership, to enable participants to become aware of the diversity of expectations, to get to know themselves better and to find a way of exercising their leadership that suits them. This five-day program focuses on classroom interaction and was created by Cyrille Sardais, holder of the Pierre-Péladeau Chair in Leadership. It is aimed at people who have eight or more years of work experience, including at least four in a management role. Among the most recent novelties in the HEC Montréal Essentials training series from the School of Executives, we also find The Essentials in Corporate Finance and The Essentials in Marketing Communication.

Our phones have been designed to make us addicted. And it works ! But this dependence is not inconsequential, and more and more experts are sounding the alarm on the troubles that lurk our overloaded brains. To regain control over this modern day drug, you have to understand how it operates on us ... and learn how to get into "airplane mode".

Our attention is worth a million. The longer tech companies manage to capture it, the more money they make, for it is the number of users and the time spent on their platform that gives value to their stock market and allow them to sell advertising.

* There are inherent mechanisms in technology that make use of the phone addictive. But the very source of dependence, the substance, is social interaction (according to Samuel P.L.Veissière, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University) *

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Our phones were designed to make us addicted. And it works ! But this addiction is not without consequences, and more and more experts are sounding the alarm bells on the troubles that threaten our overloaded brains. To regain control over this modern day drug, we have to understand how it acts on us… and learn to put ourselves in “airplane mode”.

Our attention is worth dearly. The longer technology companies manage to capture it, the more money they make since it is the number of users and the time spent on their platform that add value to their stock and allow them to sell advertising. .

* There are mechanisms inherent in gist technology that make phone use addictive. But the very source of addiction, the substance, is social interactions (according to Samuel PLVeissière, assistant professor in the department of psychiatry at McGill University) *

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