Équipe Humania chooses AtmanCo to support SME's growth

Before integrating AtmanCo's solution, Équipe Humania faced several challenges in talent management and supporting growing businesses.

In the course of their mandates, Équipe Humania often observed a recurring phenomenon in growing SMEs: the promotion of loyal or technically-skilled employees to management positions without evaluating their leadership potential or compatibility with the role. While well-intentioned, this approach frequently led to misalignments within teams and employee dissatisfaction. According to Marie-Josée Carmel and David Lampron, the AtmanCo tool helps avoid these pitfalls by aligning employees with their natural strengths, ensuring that appointments are well-suited for success—both for managers and their teams.

"In SMEs, the best technicians are often promoted to management roles without assessing their management potential. With AtmanCo, we can avoid these mistakes by ensuring the role matches their natural talents." – Marie-Josée Carmel, Partner at Équipe Humania

Équipe Humania found that many client companies, particularly within their leadership teams, were facing personality conflicts and internal communication issues. These tensions often stemmed from a lack of a common language to understand and describe different personalities and work styles. This led to frequent misunderstandings, hindering team cohesion and effectiveness. According to Marie-Josée, the AtmanCo tool establishes a common foundation to recognize and value individual differences, thereby reducing tensions and improving communication—both among colleagues and between partners.

For leaders of growing SMEs, the speed of development amplified the need to structure their HR practices. However, they often lacked the time and resources to address these complex challenges. The lack of clarity regarding the individual strengths and challenges of their employees also limited their ability to motivate and support their development. As David puts it, the AtmanCo tool helps guide these leaders by professionalizing their HR approach, helping them structure their teams and implement practices that build high-performing teams aligned with the growing demands of the market.

• Selection and development of leaders: Internal promotions are often carried out without a thorough assessment of leadership skills, leading to misalignments within teams and undermining their performance.
• Personality conflicts and communication problems: The absence of a common language for analyzing and understanding personality styles generates tension and conflict, hampering effective collaboration.
• Lack of HR structure: The rapid growth of SMEs accentuates the need to structure HR practices, but companies often lack the time and resources to meet these new challenges.

• Recruitment based on global compatibility: Integration of the AtmanCo psychometric profile into the recruitment process to assess candidates' compatibility with teams and ensure optimal alignment.
• Enhanced self-awareness and skills development: Use of the AtmanCo profile in training programs to deepen understanding of self and others, thereby strengthening participants' collaboration and skills.
• Strategic coaching for management teams: Structuring HR practices and creating balanced teams based on in-depth analysis of individual profiles, to maximize synergy and efficiency.

The integration of AtmanCo into the talent management processes has enabled Équipe Humania to make tangible improvements for their clients. By using psychometric profiles in recruitment, their experts have helped companies reduce turnover by identifying candidates who are better aligned with existing teams and organizational values. This approach has allowed managers to make more informed decisions, fostering better team cohesion, reducing internal tensions, and enhancing overall stability.

According to Marie-Josée, team members are learning to recognize and value each other’s strengths while adopting a more open attitude toward constructive feedback. By providing an objective view of strengths and areas for development, AtmanCo also facilitates the creation of an environment conducive to collective growth.

David highlights that AtmanCo has allowed client companies to make strategic decisions that are better aligned with their objectives. By gaining a better understanding of leadership styles and individual skills, leaders can adjust their practices to better meet the specific needs of their teams.

"Our entrepreneurial approach to human resources management goes beyond just a CRHA perspective. We understand the realities of leaders and share their strategic vision." – David Lampron, Partner at Équipe Humania 

By providing a clear view of leadership and management styles, the tool allows leaders to adjust their practices to better support the company’s growth. By supporting clients at every stage of organizational development, Équipe Humania now uses AtmanCo as a true lever to develop their clients’ "organizational maturity."

• Improved recruitment process: Reduce turnover by selecting recruits who are more compatible with teams, thus improving retention and cultural alignment.
• Strategic decision-making and organizational maturity: Supporting managers in structuring teams and making strategic decisions, by aligning HR practices with the company's growth objectives.
• Strengthening team cohesion: Creating a common language to better understand personalities, reducing conflict and fostering smoother collaboration within teams.
• Positive, people-centered corporate culture: Development of an organizational culture that values individual differences and encourages a healthy, collaborative work environment.

Équipe Humania has integrated AtmanCo into its internal culture, using it for its consultants and associates, which has reinforced its mission to promote human development and the success of client companies. This collaboration goes beyond psychometric assessment, becoming a strategic pillar of Équipe Humania's approach. By choosing AtmanCo as its partner, Équipe Humania has not only improved the accuracy of recruitment and strengthened team cohesion, but has also helped executives to make more informed strategic decisions. This learning and personal development model supports companies in their quest for harmonious growth, performance and talent engagement, while reinforcing their mission to create harmonious and sustainable work environments, where every employee is valued and every organization is well positioned for success.