Optimising Your Potential - 5 Key Skills for Your Career

In a world where technology, uncertainty, complexity and change have become the norm, behavioural skills – or soft skills – are now a key driver of success.

According to the World Economic Forum report “The Future of Jobs Report 2025”, the most sought-after skills in the coming years will include analytical thinking, resilience, agility, critical thinking, continuous learning, self-awareness and positive influence.

Optimising Your Potential is an innovative programme based on cognitive and behavioural sciences, positive psychology and neuroscience. It consists of five complementary and independent modules, each focusing on a key professional skill aligned with the expectations of tomorrow’s labour market.

Through practical tools, scientifically validated methods and practical exercises between sessions, you will learn how to strengthen your mindset and adaptability, improve the way you learn, make clearer decisions, build sustainable habits, cultivate well-being and gratitude, and develop genuine resilience in the face of change.

Each module combines theory and practice: you will leave with concrete exercises to apply in your daily life, helping you to sustainably transform the way you think, act and grow.

At the end of this programme, participants will be able to:

• Develop a growth mindset to overcome obstacles, learn from failure and strengthen their potential on a daily basis.
• Master effective learning strategies validated by neuroscience in order to learn faster, more efficiently and sustainably.
• Identify and limit the impact of cognitive biases to make clearer, more critical and more rational decisions in both professional and personal contexts.
• Build sustainable habits using behavioural psychology to improve performance and achieve personal and professional goals.
• Strengthen personal resilience and apply the psychology of change to adapt calmly to uncertainty and turn change into an opportunity.

Each module of the programme is based on an active, science-based and action-oriented pedagogical approach. Participants alternate between scientific theoretical input, interactive discussions, real-life case studies and high value-added practical exercises.

Structure of Each Module

Before the training

•  30 minutes of mandatory learning content to be completed in advance (articles, videos, interviews, etc.)

Day 1 (3 hours – face-to-face)

• Interactive presentations and discussions around key concepts

•  Workshops, role-playing and practical exercises to facilitate tool adoption
•  Experience sharing and co-construction of solutions adapted to each participant

  A few days later: follow-up virtual session (2 hours – online)

•  Feedback on real-life experimentation

•  Collective analysis of successes and challenges encountered
•  Additional input and personalised advice to ensure long-term skill integration

• Personal action plan

Between the two sessions, participants are invited to apply the methods and tools in real-life situations, fostering experiential learning and long-term integration.

MODULE 1 – Optimising Your Mindset: Growth Mindset and Neuroplasticity

Duration: 5h30 (30 minutes of learning content to review, 3 hours in person + 2 hours of virtual classroom)

Main objective: Develop your talents and intelligence through the principles of the growth mindset and neuroplasticity.

Content:

• Fundamentals of the growth mindset
• Adopting a sustainable growth mindset
• Overcoming limiting beliefs and imposter syndrome
• Developing expertise through the growth mindset

MODULE 2 – Optimising Your Learning Abilities: The Science of Learning and Neuroscience

Duration: 5h30 (30 minutes of learning content to review, 3 hours in person + 2 hours of virtual classroom)

Main objective: Learn more effectively and sustainably using neuroscience-based strategies.

Content:

• Understanding how your brain learns
• Effective learning techniques
• Debunking learning myths
• Overcoming procrastination and distractions
• Mastering complex subjects through learning science

MODULE 3 – Optimising Your Decision-Making: Cognitive Biases and Cognitive Sciences

Duration: 5h30 (30 minutes of learning content to review, 3 hours in person + 2 hours of virtual classroom)

Main objective: Make clearer and more rational decisions by limiting the impact of cognitive biases and developing critical thinking.

Content:

• Fundamentals of cognitive biases
• Mapping major cognitive biases
• Reducing the impact of biases in decision-making
• Developing critical thinking and assessing information reliability
• Applying critical thinking to problem-solving and decision-making in complex contexts

MODULE 4 – Optimising Your Effectiveness: The Science of Habits and Behavioural Psychology

Duration: 5h30 (30 minutes of learning content to review, 3 hours in person + 2 hours of virtual classroom)

Main objective: Establish sustainable and effective habits to improve performance and achieve goals.  

Content:

• Understanding the science of habits
• Mastering the habit formation cycle
• Building effective and sustainable routine

MODULE 5 – Optimising Your Adaptability: Personal Resilience and the Science of Change

Duration: 5h30 (30 minutes of learning content to review, 3 hours in person + 2 hours of virtual classroom)

Main objective: Strengthen resilience and navigate change effectively through the psychology of change.

Content:

• Emotional intelligence and self-awareness
• Personal resilience and stress management
• Embracing change and uncertainty
• Continuous learning and assertiveness

•  Managers, executives, project managers and team leaders seeking to support change, develop leadership and optimise collective performance

•  Professionals in transition, upskilling or career change wishing to accelerate their adaptation and personal or professional development

•  Employees seeking greater efficiency, confidence and agility to meet daily challenges and seize new opportunities

•  Trainers, coaches, HR professionals and facilitators wishing to integrate soft skills and a scientific approach into their practices

•  Anyone curious to better understand themselves, optimise their potential and thrive in a constantly evolving environment

At the end of the training, participants will be able to download a certificate of attendance issued by the House of Training via the learner portal.