A couple of weeks ago, I was invited by the Airbus Leadership University team, Nelida Al Husseini and Paul Conway, to participate in their yearly event: “Partners’ days,” on the Toulouse campus.
It’s a two days yearly event where they invite all the partners (coaches, connectors, facilitators) to thank them for their support. They are helping add value to our journey as Airbus employees via coaching, training, workshops, and team events.
It was a thrilling experience to be part of these two days, and I could feel the positive energy in the room for those two days.
What was even more exciting for me was the possibility of meeting coaches that provided me with some training that was life-changing for me.
One of those coaches was Olivier LASSERRE, who provided me with training on how people can make a difference in project management.
It was almost ten years ago since I attended that training, and as of today, I vividly remember those five days we spent together.
Olivier introduced me to three books that will go to change my life:
- Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy by Relationships (Nonviolent Communication Guides) by Marshall B. Rosenberg
- Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and Your Life by Spencer Johnson
- How Full Is Your Bucket? from Tom Rath
I cannot tell you how often I was frustrated by people and how using nonviolent communication helped me, both in the professional and personal aspects of my life.
After reading the book “Who moved my cheese?” I embraced and welcomed change in my life. That was the first time I realized my comfort zone was my dead zone.
While reading the third book, “How Full Is Your Bucket?” I learned much about myself and how it was necessary to fill my bucket with positive energy.
Talking about energy, one of the primary sources of depletion of our energy is our EGO:
- E as Energie
- G as Go
- O as Out
By checking my EGO from time to time, I could protect my bucket from depleting.
I found myself having more willpower because I let things go more quickly, and I don’t lose my energy and time trying to bend the universe beyond my sphere of influence.
So I want to thank you, Olivier LASSERRE, for the impact you have had and are still having in my life.
“The best athletes of the day, the Greatest, the Michael Jordans, all had a coach. But, still, to this day, the best have coaches. Because the coach can see what you can’t see.”
During those partners’ days, I was surprised to see Olivier again as part of the partners. He did not recognize me. I went to him to remind him about our encounter and how he had impacted my life.
He has his coaching firm: Vert Girafe. So if you look for someone who can help you see the unseen, go to Olivier and say to him, "Mad sends his regards!”.
And thank you to Nelida and Paul from the Airbus Leadership university for allowing me to be part of the partners’ days.
When was the last time you did an EGO check?
How full is your bucket?
Who is your life coach, and why?
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