This episode explores how self-leadership and self-awareness are essential to effective communication and collaboration in today’s digital workplace. Guest speaker Florence Dambricourt invites us to pause and reflect on how our reactions in the digital space can be amplified or distorted, creating unexpected responses from colleagues in remote or hybrid teams. In a time marked by busyness and reactivity, Florence encourages us to slow down and explore intentionality in our digital communication—bringing greater awareness, presence, and impact to our virtual interactions.
Key learnings of How to Measure Learning Impact
- Self-awareness is foundational: Noticing how we feel, where our attention goes, and how we show up digitally shapes the quality of our interactions.
- Intentionality matters:
- Digital tools amplify habits: Urgency, reactivity, and disconnection
- Rituals and connection:
- Boundaries as essential for performance.
- Communication in a digital and multi-cultural team
- Self-leadership is proactive: shaping your digital presence and influencing the team environment.
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Save time and focus on the discussion elements which are essential for you:
1. Introduction & Florence’s journey into self-leadership and remote work
2. Two levels of self-awareness: inner (downtime) and outer (uptime) (3:28)
3. The importance of rituals and human connection in virtual meetings (9:31)
4. Urgency culture, time pressure, and the need to manage energy and boundaries (12:50)
5. Self-awareness as an active and intentional practice (20:02)
6. Shifting from “or” thinking to “and” thinking – Communication norms, national culture, and team etiquette in digital spaces (25:47)
7. Self-leadership as intentional action and using the self as an instrument (29:44)
Tools and resources
Mindtools Good Practice Podcast: Episode 300
Phil shares a manager’s voice from 26:00min onward “Slap on a smile …” Exploring a manager range of emotions and which are acceptable to express and which are not. From June 2022 and still very relevant: https://podcast.mindtoolsbusiness.com/300-celebrating-live-from-london
5 Strategies for emotional regulations: the infographic
About Florence Dambricourt, guest speaker of The Art of Meaningful Communication in the Digital Workplace
Florence Dambricourt is an internationally recognised coach and speaker specialising in self-leadership, communication, and team dynamics in the digital workplace. With a background in science and behavioural change, she brings over 20 years of experience helping leaders and teams work more intentionally across remote and hybrid environments.
Florence’s work centres on the belief that meaningful communication starts with self-awareness—how we manage our attention, energy, and presence in fast-paced, tech-enabled contexts. She supports leaders to build psychological safety, set boundaries, and create connection in environments often dominated by urgency and distraction.
Her coaching approach is grounded, systemic, and deeply human. Through her practice Talking4Good and her book Swim Like a Fish, Florence invites leaders to slow down, reflect, and act with clarity — whether in meetings, emails, or spontaneous digital interactions.
She is a sought-after speaker on digital collaboration, and a passionate advocate for more intentional and authentic communication.
Contact Florence
Available episodes:
Episode 1: Making Learning Material Truly Accessible
Episode 3: How to measure Learning Impact
Episode 4: How to use videos for collaboration, creativity and performance enabler
Episode 5: Driving Learning Impact Through Accountability
Episode 6: The Power of Storytelling in the Digital & Hybrid Workplace
Episode 7: Unmuting Emotions for Better Collaboration in Hybrid Teams
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