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Test: "Should you take a sabbatical?

What are the essential criteria to consider when deciding whether or not to take [...].

6 min. reading
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Test: "Should you move abroad?

What are the essential criteria to consider when deciding to move abroad? It's [...]

5 min. reading
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Test: "Should you continue your studies or start working?"

What are the essential criteria to consider before deciding to stop studying [...].

4 min. reading
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Test: "Do you need to change jobs?

What are the signs that it's time to change jobs? For [...]

5 min. reading
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Test: "evaluate the toxicity of a friendly relationship".

What are the signs of a toxic friendship? A toxic friendship does not allow you to [...]

5 min. reading
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Internal career development: start by convincing your manager

You've decided to make a career move. And you've opted for an evolution in [...].

7 min. reading
Emeric Lebreton, tree metaphor, competency development, root competencies, personal growth, branches of knowledge, leaves of skills, sap of experience, professional fulfillment, natural potential, rooting of competencies, continuous development, career cycles, transversal competencies, biodiversity of competencies, inner wealth, professional ecosystem, forest of talents, tree of life, professional symbiosis, foliage of competencies, fructification of know-how, organic growth, roots of personality, professional harmony

What is a skill: the tree metaphor

8 min. reading
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Giving meaning to your life: advice from a coach

2 min. reading
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How can you regain your self-confidence?

2 min. reading
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Career transition: should you stay a nurse all your life?

1 Nurses know how to communicate Nurses spend their days in contact with the public. They [...]

3 min. reading
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Interview with Emeric Lebreton, BFM Business - October 18, 2021

Journalist: Hello and welcome to our "Focus Entreprise" program. Today we're talking to Emeric Lebreton, Chairman [...].

7 min. reading
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Psychology: life is a poker game

Life is a poker game. But how do you win the jackpot in the big game?

6 min. reading
Emeric Lebreton, job-personality match, professional fulfillment, work psychology, career guidance, self-awareness, introspection, passion, tailored career, personal development, innate skills, job satisfaction, life mission, personality traits, personal assets, professional harmony, individual values, professional identity, ORIENTACTION, job-personality congruence, well-being at work, personal ambition, intrinsic motivation, personal SWOT analysis, self-actualization.

Does your job match your personality?

My name is Emeric Lebreton, I have a doctorate in psychology and I'm a coach, and I'm going to [...]

2 min. reading
Emeric Lebreton, color symbolism, leadership, ORIENTACTION, color psychology, visual communication, color impact, red leadership, blue confidence, green creativity, yellow optimism, colorful management, color influence, emotional nuances, color language, chromatic harmony, visual identity, sensory stimulation, work atmosphere, color and perception, visual coherence, color culture, inspiring leadership, chromatic personality, creative stimulation.

Boosting leadership with colors

You're about to make a public appearance. You would like some advice on how to [...]

3 min. reading
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New: test your soft skills with ORIENTACTION

3 min. reading
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Rebuilding after burnout: why the ORIENTACTION skills assessment can help?

6 min. reading
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Career Change at 30: Choosing Your Life Over a Career You’re Stuck In

10 min. reading
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Discover the 32 Preferences® personality test created by Emeric Lebreton, Ph.

2 min. reading
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How to finance a skills assessment in 2026: CPF, employer, ANFH, and social assistance

14-minute read
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Retraining from nurse to skills assessment consultant

8 min. reading
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Prevent occupational illness by taking a skills assessment with ORIENTACTION

2 min. reading
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50 Powerful Messages of Encouragement to Boost Motivation and Confidence

8 min. reading
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Thirty funny and kind messages to wish you a happy birthday

4 min. reading
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Evaluation questionnaire - skills assessment - ORIENTACTION

1 min. reading
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Fifty messages to (re)give a woman confidence

5 min. reading
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Fifteen examples of birthday messages for her daughter

5 min. reading
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What are the main job search sites in France?

3 min. reading
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The 50 most beautiful proverbs about life

6 min. reading
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Fifty thank-you messages to a friend

8 min. reading
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"Rallumez les étoiles": a luminous guide to rediscovering your path and your joy

7 min. reading
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"Origins, a history of consciousness": Emeric Lebreton explores the roots of the human mind

9 min. reading
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Back-to-school 2025's must-read HR and business books

6 min. reading
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Five inspiring books to get you started in 2025

8 min. reading
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How to sell your book at Fnac: a practical guide for authors and publishers

5 min. reading
colleague Christmas gift

What Christmas present should you give one of your colleagues?

4 min. reading
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Excerpt from the book "Et puis m...c'est fini" by Dr Emeric Lebreton

5 min. reading
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"10 rules for happy, successful employees": Emeric Lebreton's latest book

2 min. reading
10 attitudes gagnantes pour réussir dans la vie, Emeric Lebreton, Orient'Action, ouvrage, management, conseils, attitudes gagnantes, adopter les bons comportements, : un livre pour réussir

"10 winning attitudes for success in life": a book for success!

2 min. reading
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New: test your soft skills with ORIENTACTION

3 min. reading
prevent burnout, psychosocial risk, exhaustion, fatigue, rebuild, Orient'Action skills assessment

Rebuilding after burnout: why the ORIENTACTION skills assessment can help?

6 min. reading
professional reconversion at 30, change of profession, employee, create a company, job, new, skills assessment, retirement, passion, motivation, desire, employee, employer, do a skills assessment with Orient Action

Career Change at 30: Choosing Your Life Over a Career You’re Stuck In

10 min. reading
Books
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"Rallumez les étoiles": a luminous guide to rediscovering your path and your joy

7 min. reading
Origins consciousness, Emeric Lebreton, history consciousness, human mind, roots consciousness, psychological exploration, philosophy mind, neuroscience consciousness, evolutionary psychology, development consciousness, human thought, emergence consciousness, cognitive psychology, psychological anthropology, archaeology mind, genesis thought, human psychology, consciousness and humanity, deep psychology, origins thought, historical psychology, human consciousness, philosophical psychology, intellectual exploration, origins psychology

"Origins, a history of consciousness": Emeric Lebreton explores the roots of the human mind

9 min. reading
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Back-to-school 2025's must-read HR and business books

6 min. reading

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