EPN Breakfast Talk 21: 'Team Management: Reaching CollectivePerformance'

Team management is a concept that is increasingly gaining importance in today's companies and organizations. For this very reason European Professionals Network (EPN) acted to expand its members' leadership and team management skills by hosting a seminar titled 'Team Management: Reaching collective performance.' The lecturer of the event was Master Certified Coach Sylviane Cannio,whois one of the five Belgian Master Certified Coaches -- the highest international recognized certification level for coaching.

At the highly interactive seminar on April 27th, Ms. Cannio requested the participants to think about what the key characteristics of a productive and successful manager and worker are and then heard each of the participants’ ideas. Communication skills, self-motivation, integrity, promoting cross-level and cross-functional collaboration and trust were among the ideas agreed and further elaborated by Ms. Cannio. According to the coach, the paradigms of diversity, value and respect are highly necessary for improving the business. She also advised that people should achieve a balance between their personal and professional life. Being dedicated and ambitious is admirable to a certain extent, but we should not allow work to define our self-worth and identity, she underlined. Another issue Ms. Cannio stressed at the seminar was not to use negative words when leading and taking a decision. Managers need to choose their words carefully when managing and supervising teams; otherwise, they’ll soon discover that they are too much focusing on negativity and it damages their staff and productivity – not to mention their career, the master certified coach underscored.