Insights for more confident leadership
Concrete articles and guides to help managers defuse tensions, break isolation, and support their teams day to day.
AI and management: how artificial intelligence is transforming human interactions at work
Artificial intelligence is redefining employees' daily work and the role of managers. Stakes, key figures and levers for action for leaders and HR directors of French mid-sized companies.
Chloé Rodrigo
95% of coaching happens between sessions: how to support the inter-session
The real lever of change isn't the session, it's what your coachee lives between two. How to support the inter-session without adding to your workload or losing control.
Loïc Wan-Ajouhu
A companion for difficult management situations: what it's actually for
Not one more productivity tool, but a relational companion: what an AI companion concretely does when a manager faces a conflict, a reprimand or a delicate decision.
Lionel Garnier
Who can you talk to as a manager? Your options, and how to choose
As a manager, you need to talk a situation through but don't know who to turn to? A concrete rundown of the people you can reach out to, their limits, and how to choose depending on the moment.
Loïc Wan-Ajouhu
Will AI replace coaches? What the profession risks (and doesn't)
Will AI replace coaches? The real answer: it shifts the value of the job toward what it can't do. Relationship, presence, meaning. What changes, and what doesn't.
Dominique Vives
The confidentiality paradox: reassuring the manager without blinding HR
A manager only opens a tool about a difficult situation if they're sure no one will read it. But the HR leader who pays needs visibility. How we reconcile the two, without surveillance, without betraying the manager.
Lionel Garnier
Preparing for a difficult conversation: the method to stop going in blind
A reprimand, a disagreement, an awkward announcement: a poorly prepared difficult conversation quickly goes wrong. A concrete five-step method to prepare the conversation and walk in with the right words.
Chloé Rodrigo
Tailoring your AI agent to your coaching method (DISC, NVC, Process Com, Gestalt)
Coaches' top fear about AI is standardization. Here is how an agent takes on your vocabulary, posture and signature tools, without ever deciding in your place.
Lionel Garnier
How to support your managers day to day: the guide for HR leaders
Training managers is no longer enough: they need support the moment tension arises. Five concrete levers to move from one-off training to continuous support, at scale.
Chloé Rodrigo
What actually happens when a manager opens Vikl
10:47 p.m., a manager can't sleep because of a team member. The concrete, end-to-end story of a difficult management situation handled with Vikl, from "I don't know what to do" to the message sent the next day.
Lionel Garnier
ICF, EMCC, SF Coach ethics and AI: adding an agent without betraying your framework
Confidentiality, client autonomy, non-substitution, transparency: how to add an AI agent to your practice without clashing with your code of ethics.
Dominique Vives
Is managerial coaching too expensive? The alternatives that actually hold up
Managerial coaching runs from €600 to €1,800 per session. Hard to offer it to every manager. A rundown of credible alternatives to support your managers without blowing the budget.
Dominique Vives
Tracking your coachees' engagement without ever reading their conversations
How to track your coachees' commitment without monitoring what they say. VIKL's privacy by design, aligned with ICF, EMCC and SF Coach ethics.
Lionel Garnier
Managing for the first time: handling the stress and loneliness of the new role
Becoming a manager means changing jobs overnight. Stress, impostor syndrome, sudden loneliness: what first-time managers face, and how to approach the transition without burning out.
Dominique Vives
Assigning personalized exercises and training to each coachee from your dashboard
How to push individualized modules, exercises and questionnaires to each coachee from your admin space, structure the journey between sessions and stay in control, without extra workload.
Chloé Rodrigo
The loneliness of the manager: why you feel alone, and who to talk to
45% of leaders feel isolated. Manager loneliness is neither a failure nor a weakness, it's a consequence of the role. Why it sets in, and who to actually talk to when you're a manager.
Loïc Wan-Ajouhu
No, Vikl isn't 'ChatGPT for managers'
"It's just a prompt on ChatGPT, right?" The question comes up at every demo. The honest answer, under the hood: specialized skills, pro frameworks, relational memory, deliverables and data sovereignty.
Lionel Garnier
Scaling your coaching impact without diluting your practice: the augmented-coaching model
Augmented coaching: extend your reach to more coachees and more moments, without sacrificing quality or your singularity. The framework to break the billable-hours ceiling.
Chloé Rodrigo
The 2025 manager: less process, more clarity
Management tools keep multiplying, but team tensions have never been higher. What if the real lever isn't another process, but working on the manager's posture?
Loïc Wan-Ajouhu
Emotional intelligence in management: beyond the buzzword
Everyone talks about emotional intelligence. Few managers know what to actually do with it. How to go from concept to practice — and why adapting your style to the other person's profile changes everything.
Dominique Vives
Recurring revenue for coaches: breaking free from the billed-session trap
Billing by the hour caps your income at your calendar. How VIKL licenses and the partner program build recurring revenue, within a strict ethical framework.
Loïc Wan-Ajouhu
Individual coaching and AI coaching: two levels of the same support
Individual coaching transforms in depth, but a coach can't be everywhere. How AI coaching extends their work between sessions — and why the two are complementary.
Lionel Garnier
How to redirect a team member without breaking the relationship
Redirecting doesn't mean alienating. A concrete method for setting clear expectations while preserving trust — by adapting your approach to your interlocutor's profile.
Chloé Rodrigo
Where your data lives, and why it won't feed a third-party model
Your management data is among the most sensitive in the company. Hosting, encryption, access, GDPR, AI Act: the straight answers, no detours, for a security review.
Lionel Garnier
The manager's mental load: how to recognize it and lighten it
Thinking about everything, for everyone, all the time: a manager's mental load is invisible but exhausting. How to recognize it, and concrete levers to lighten it without guilt.
Loïc Wan-Ajouhu
Micro-conflicts at work: the hidden cost of unresolved tensions
3 hours per week lost per employee, billions in annual costs. Breaking down the real cost of workplace relational tensions — and how to act before it's too late.
Dominique Vives
Feedback and difficult conversations: how to say what needs to be said
Giving tough feedback, redirecting without alienating, addressing sensitive topics: concrete principles to make your management conversations build trust instead of breaking it.
Chloé Rodrigo
Leaders aren't born: how self-work transforms the manager
Leadership isn't an innate talent. It's a daily practice of clarity, courage, and listening. Why the best managers are those who commit to working on themselves.
Loïc Wan-Ajouhu
Can AI really help managers handle team tensions?
AI coaching, relational assistants, digital companions: beyond the hype, how artificial intelligence can concretely support managers in their daily relational challenges.
Lionel Garnier