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Context & Challenges
The Challenge: Rigid Mindsets and Generational Divides
Renowned for engineering excellence, the company’s leadership, composed of technically oriented professionals, struggled with skepticism toward innovation and younger talent. High workloads and a “not possible” mindset hindered progress, necessitating a shift in leadership approach to drive agility and engagement.
Objectives
The Goal: Modernize Leadership for a Multi-Generational Workforce
The company aimed to empower leaders with the emotional intelligence and adaptability needed to navigate complex challenges while fostering collaboration and innovation across generations.
QiLeader delivered a tailored program combining:
The program prioritized practical, human-centric leadership methods to bridge generational gaps and boost organizational agility.
Results
The Results: A Collaborative, Agile, and Engaged Organization
The program redefined leadership as empathetic, adaptable, and collaborative. This cultural pivot positioned the company for long-term success, making it a benchmark for leadership evolution in a complex, fast-moving industry.
On top of reaching each company’s personalized goals, QiLeader also aims at rebooting leaders and their teams for more impact in fast & busy times, by deeply reprogramming their habits. Research among 500 respondents shows that a rebooted leader (i.e. a leader who adopted the 5 habits of fast & busy times, namely: Rhythm, Purpose, Growth Mindset, Resilience and Focus) shows significantly better results compared to a more traditional leader or employee. For instance, a rebooted QiLeader is 72% more motivated than a traditional leader or employee, experiencing less stress (by 59%) and a decreased workload (by 45%). The likelihood of this QiLeader looking for another job is also decreased by 50%.
The same research shows that rebooted leaders work on average 10% less than traditional leaders while having 47% more impact, impact being defined in terms of reaching one’s objectives.
Assessments taken by participants to QiLeader programs before and after the training show an increased adaptability to the fast & busy times, with an average progression of 28% across the 5 habits assessed in 3 to 4 months. Biggest improvements are visible in Mindset (moving from a fixed to growth mindset) and in Focus (From overwhelmed & operational to focused and strategic.
The cumulative effect of increased impact, energy and motivation, together with decreased workload and stress results in a significant drop in absenteeism. The QiLeader techniques applied by Murielle Machiels during her time as CEO of an educational publishing company resulted in a 50% decrease in absenteeism. QiLeader also relies on a number of testimonials from participants saying that they avoided burnout thanks to the principles learned through QiLeader courses.
In Belgium, absenteeism is estimated at 10% per year and research shows an average cost of absenteeism of 2.450€ per year per employee.
For a group of 20 leaders, the absenteeism cost would be approximately 49.000€.
Average employee turnover rate is 10% depending on your industry. The cost of replacing a leader varies between 50% and 213% of their annual salary cost. For a group of 20 leaders with an annual salary cost of 100.000€, the employee turnover cost would be at least 100.000€ (50% of the annual salary cost of 2 people). This cost includes loss in productivity, replacement costs, recruitment costs, onboarding costs…
Our research shows that rebooted Qileaders are 50% less likely to look for another job.
See this participant’s testimonial: “It was a crisis moment for me at that point, because I was choosing between ‘Do I stay in this company? Maybe I should go someplace else…’ or ‘Do I find a way to make myself more motivated? And doing the course remotivated me.” (full testimonial here: https://youtu.be/zwRw0h7DeW0).
In Belgium, absenteeism is estimated at 10% per year and research shows an average cost of absenteeism of 2.450€ per year per employee.
For a group of 20 leaders, the absenteeism cost would be approximately 49.000€.
The program costs:
30.000€ for 20 leaders
Estimated 50% reduction of absenteeism:
24.500€ lower costs
Estimated 50% reduction in employee turnover:
50.000€ lower costs
Estimated profit increase:
44.500€
A World Bank study, conducted in partnership with the National University of Singapore Business School and Leuphana University, revealed that mindset-based training increases profits with 30% while traditional business training increases profits with 11%. This study was conducted among 1,500 entrepreneurs divided into 3 groups. One group didn’t receive any training and served as base to compare the other two. One group received a business training and one group received a mindset-based training.
The cost of the mindset- based training was already repaid within the first year thanks to increased profits and is 3 times more profitable than a classic business training.
QiLeader is a mindset-based training and is more sustainable in the long-term as employees and leaders are better equipped to deal with change but also to whatever challenge they face. More traditional business trainings (focusing on hard skills only) get rapidly obsolete as techniques evolve rapidly in the market.
Teams and organizations
A tailor-made program for teams and organizations who want to take the path to authentic transformation and success thanks to regenerative leadership habits.
Team Leaders
A unique program to drive collective transformation, empower resilient teams, and foster sustainable success. Designed for leaders ready to inspire adaptive, purpose-driven cultures in today’s fast-paced world.
For Individual Leaders
An unique blended program to become a regenerative leader, have more impact and reach your goals. Designed for busy leaders facing the challenges of these fast and busy times
Teams and organizations
A tailor-made program for teams and organizations who want to take the path to authentic transformation and success thanks to regenerative leadership habits.
Team Leaders
A unique program to drive collective transformation, empower resilient teams, and foster sustainable success. Designed for leaders ready to inspire adaptive, purpose-driven cultures in today’s fast-paced world.
For Individual Leaders
An unique blended program to become a regenerative leader, have more impact and reach your goals. Designed for busy leaders facing the challenges of these fast and busy times
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