I am pleased to present the tenth part of the my article series on inspiring people in my life. My inspiring colleague Jérôme Adjallé is on the ‘hot seat’ today. I am so pleased that Jérôme is joining this series in his capacity as key note speaker, coach, trainer, and, in this series, first male interviewee. You can find the past interviews with myself, Susanne, Annika, Kirsten, Karen , Jin, Martina, Laura , Julia and Irene linked to the names.
This is all about people who inspire me as a coach and trainer.
This interview is with Jérôme Adjallé . We met at a common coaching and training network during the pandemic, where we worked together on an online onboarding and consulting training together. I was and am still very impressed by how the ease with which working together worked, despite not having met beyond MS teams. I appreciate Jérôme’s humour, professional attitude and adaptability, and hope you find his interview on what inspires himand what he enjoys in his daily work as a key-note speaker, coach and trainer inspire you as much as they did me, and leave the floor to Jérôme. Enjoy the read!
What do you particularly enjoy about your work?
I particularly enjoy helping people to become better.
The great thing is that I also always learn something during the process, either about my coachees/trainees, about the topic or about myself.
I believe in lifelong learning and therefore always try to improve in my job, be it in dealing with participants or in using methods and tools such as VR and AI.
When you are working on something new, where does your inspiration come from?
I launched my new company “BRIDGE-educational strategies & training” a few weeks ago. With BRIDGE, I want to take the topic of further education and soft skills training to a new level. I drew inspiration from my experience and my interest in the future and technical development. I have combined my expertise in psychology and soft skills with AI and technologies such as VR, which were previously mainly used in gaming.
If we had asked you 10 years ago, what would the answers to these two questions have been?
I already enjoyed working with people 10 years ago and will probably still do so in 10 years’ time.
I’ve always been interested in technical progress and how this progress can be used to optimize processes. But what we can now offer with BRIDGE is something I would never have dreamed of 5 years ago. 😊
If you can choose the next question: what would it be? And what would your answer be?
How important do you think soft skills will have in 5 years’ time?
I believe that soft skills, or rather business skills, or even better success skills, will become increasingly relevant.
Companies now understand that the “what” no longer makes a difference in the long term, but that the “how” is becoming more important.
One of my convictions is that -the more automated and digitalized the world becomes, the rarer and more important human contact becomes- …and we can train the quality of this contact…
Thank you, Jérôme! If you have questions on this or coaching, training and facilitation, get in touch! Looking forward to hearing from you.
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