TESTIMONIALS – Nathalie, Marine and Alexandre are managers. On a daily basis, they must juggle the expectations of their N+1s – with older management methods – and a team of young people requiring a certain flexibility.
Within the communications agency in which she works, Nathalie (1) describes herself as “the link that acts as a buffer”. At 39, she has been leading a team of twelve twenty-somethings for two years. Dynamic, talented young women, committed to their work, but in great need of flexibility. This is not necessarily to the taste of his own superiors who, in their fifties, have maintained a rather “old school“. Concretely? “They have trouble trusting and constantly tighten the screw,” says Nathalie.
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