Florence Pérès

Digital Balance: Be in control of your screens!

We are more and more entwined with our smartphone and always connected. We constantly and unconsciously check our mailbox, our social media and other messages, apps or news sources.

We feel the pressure of permanent availability and accessibility. Our smartphone is simultaneously necessary and disruptive, very useful and completely useless.

How can we learn to use it skilfully and stay in control and to overcome digital overload?

Learn how to disconnect, even when always on is the norm.

At least if you want to:

• experience less impulses
• de-stress and have more (mental) rest
• have more quality time
• reload your batteries

In this keynote Florence brings actionable insights that help you to ‘reset’ your digital behaviour!

Focus your brain: How to work with more focus and overcome distraction

It’s been called “The Productivity Paradox.” For all our technological innovations, productivity is declining ever more and stress levels are rising.

The only way to achieve success in our work is to learn the art of focus.

In the age of distraction and information overload, if we don’t master our attention, especially with jammers on the home front and the lack of the normal work routine when working remotely, we will never perform at our best.

During this session, you will learn techniques in order to create more focus.

You’ll be able to:

• apply the principles of deep work
• manage your attention in order to be more efficient
• avoid distractions and deal with information overload
• learn how to set priorities
• manage your reachability and availability
• acquire a (remote and hybrid) meeting hygiene

Start to meditate: Taster session for active professionals

One of the most effective ways of learning about the potential benefits of training your mind is through the taster session “Start to meditate for active professionals”.

During this taster session, which is ca. 1,5 hours in length, you will be introduced to the idea of meditation and to some of the scientific research that supports its effectiveness. You will also gain some insights into dealing with stressful situations.

You will be introduced to a few practical exercises that give an experiential flavor of meditation and we like to leave participants with some valuable tips and tools that they can use with great effect in the course of the working day to :

• manage their stress for more well-being and overall work and life satisfaction,
• raise their resilience for better mental clarity and physical immunity,
• develop mental agility to better cope with change,
• stay focused and balanced and on task to be more productive,
• regulate their emotions and gain better emotional stability

The presentation is interspersed with short guided exercises and ‘on-the-go’ meditations.

This session can be delivered to small groups in a ‘workshop setting’ or to a large audience in-company.

Stress and Burn out: What is it? How to recognize it? How to prevent it?

To stay energetic, motivated and enthusiastic, we need to take good care of ourselves and recognise in time the signals that can lead to exhaustion.

During this presentation you will learn :

• what the difference is between being overworked and being burnt out
• when positive stress threatens to turn into negative stress; we will also look at the different forms and degrees of stress
• how you can recognise the symptoms and warning signs in yourself and others
• how you can prevent stress and burnout

You will also learn how we ourselves have much more impact on our lives and our stress levels than we think.

Thanks to the insights you have gained, the concrete advice and immediately applicable tips,  you can immediately make a big difference  in energy and enthusiasm.

CHANGE HACKING: How to cope with change in your professional life

How to cope with CHANGE in your professional life with more adaptive resilience; to be able to “survive, succeed and stay relevant”.

Change is inevitable and often… disruptive. How can we improve our ability to cope with change, whether it is working with a new software system, going through a merger, or just having to deal with challenging periods and crises?

You will learn:

• how to overcome fear and resistance
• where to focus on when confronted to change
• how to develop self-efficacy
• how to accept reality and foster “reapositivity”

You will get useful insights and practical tips to implement in your professional life as an individual and as a team.