Building Your Leadership Skills
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About this course: When taking this course, you will raise your own self-awareness and gain self-confidence for a better leadership. You will discover a new approach to leadership based on trust and sense. The “Savoir-Relier” leadership, a new approach of leadership, taught to HEC MBA’s student and top executives, enables better team leadership and encourages relationships between people in spite of their differences of opinion. You will develop relational skills, self-knowledge and self-awareness on the way to unfold your own leadership style. You’ll learn the skills of The Savoir-Relier (SR) methodology for better connecting with yourself or others by going through the following 4 ste…
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When you enroll for courses through Coursera you get to choose for a paid plan or for a free plan .
- Free plan: No certicification and/or audit only. You will have access to all course materials except graded items.
- Paid plan: Commit to earning a Certificate—it's a trusted, shareable way to showcase your new skills.
About this course: When taking this course, you will raise your own self-awareness and gain self-confidence for a better leadership. You will discover a new approach to leadership based on trust and sense. The “Savoir-Relier” leadership, a new approach of leadership, taught to HEC MBA’s student and top executives, enables better team leadership and encourages relationships between people in spite of their differences of opinion. You will develop relational skills, self-knowledge and self-awareness on the way to unfold your own leadership style. You’ll learn the skills of The Savoir-Relier (SR) methodology for better connecting with yourself or others by going through the following 4 steps for successful leadership: Introspection, Conversation, Resilience and Responsibility toward Value Creation. In this first MOOC of the "Inspirational Leadership" specialization, you will practice the first two steps of the method for successful leadership: Introspection and Conversation. You will get to know yourself better during the Introspection part and get a chance to improve your communication skills in order to better interact with others. You will meet people like you who will share their stories and their experience with Savoir-Relier and why it is so inspiring for them in their life. Together, you’ll develop greater self-awareness by developing a leadership self-portrait and going through fun activities to increase your empathy and communication. Leaders from different organizations and participants of the HEC Paris Leadership Certificate, the program from which this course and specialization are inspired, will share with you their insights about what it takes to become a great leader and what they are able to achieve now that they apply The Savoir-Relier methodology. This course is part of the specialization “Inspirational Leadership: Leading with Sense”. In the next courses, you'll go through the second two steps of leadership: Resilience and Responsibility toward Value Creation.
Created by: HEC Paris-
Taught by: Valérie Gauthier, Associate Professor, HEC Paris
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HEC Paris HEC Paris, founded in 1881 by the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry, is one of France’s oldest elite higher education Grandes Ecoles. Throughout its 130-year history, HEC Paris has consistently attracted individuals highly capable and talented, innovative and entrepreneurial, ambitious and open-minded, capable of becoming architects of a responsible world. What makes HEC unique is its conviction shared by the HEC community: knowledge determines the freedom and entrepreneurship required for a better world.Syllabus
WEEK 1
Your inspirational leadership journey
In this module, you will discover a new approach to leadership, the savoir-relier, which is based on the capacity to build quality and trustworthy relationships. You will hear and watch people who have embarked on the same journey as you who will share their stories and their experience with Savoir-Relier. You will see why it is so inspiring for them in their life and find your own motivation to participate. You will reflect on your inspiration to lead and your personal leadership references to give an orientation to your personal leadership journey. You will capture the value of the step by step process which will help you define your leadership style. So get started and enjoy the journey with us!
9 videos, 8 readings, 3 practice quizzes expand
- Reading: Welcome message
- Reading: Module objectives
- Video: 1.1 - Starting your leadership journey
- Video: 1.2 What you will learn, why and how
- Reading: Inspirational Leadership: Leading with Sense
- Video: 2 - Mindset and methodology
- Reading: To complete the course "Building Your Leadership Skills"
- Video: 3 - Sharing the Savoir-Relier experience
- Reading: Additional Resources
- Practice Quiz: Practice Quiz (lesson1)
- Video: 4.1 - Who is your inspiring leader?
- Video: 4.2 - What characterizes your most inspiring leaders?
- Video: 5 - Acts of leadership
- Reading: About Poilâne
- Practice Quiz: Practice Quiz (lesson2)
- Video: 6 - What Savoir-Relier really is?
- Video: 7 - Sense and Sensibility
- Reading: Additional resources
- Practice Quiz: Practice Quiz (lesson3)
- Reading: Special offer on Valerie's book "Leading with Sense"
Graded: Describe your most inspiring leader
Graded: Graded Quiz
WEEK 2
Introspection to grow your self-awareness and sensibility
In this module, you will get to know yourself better thanks to introspection and measure the true value of this exercise.You will enter a sensory experience to develop your sensible skills, particularly increase your empathy and attention to others through fun built in exercises and quizzes like looking at a painting and sharing what you see, think and how you feel when focusing on it.You will understand the role of subjective thoughts in the way you interact with people and practice active listening.
7 videos, 5 readings, 4 practice quizzes expand
- Reading: Welcome message
- Reading: Module objectives
- Video: 1 - The Self-Portrait exercise guidelines and testimonies
- Video: 2 - What has Savoir-Relier taught us so far?
- Reading: Additional resources
- Practice Quiz: Practice Quiz (lesson1)
- Video: 3 - Using your 5 senses: introduction to the value of your senses
- Video: 4 - The relationship between senses and emotions
- Video: 5 - Practicing sense as rational objective thought
- Reading: Additional resources
- Practice Quiz: Practice Quiz (lesson2)
- Video: 6 - The ladder of inference
- Video: 7 - Growing empathy with listening
- Practice Quiz: Questions for the Speaker/Listener/Observer role play
- Reading: Additional resources
- Practice Quiz: Practice Quiz (lesson3)
Graded: Reflection on the Self-Portrait
Graded: Graded quiz
WEEK 3
The conversation, learning to manage quality relationships
In this module, you will acquire the knowledge and skills that sense carries: using intuition to make decisions, giving a direction and vision for your projects and life.You will interact with people who like you will write a self-portrait and share their personal questions and stories in the conversation exercise. From this you will gain self-confidence and build quality and trustworthy relationships. You will define your own leadership challenge so you can improve your leadership skills
7 videos, 4 readings, 3 practice quizzes expand
- Reading: Welcome message
- Reading: Module objectives
- Video: 1 - From the 5 senses to intuition: learning to trust your instincts
- Video: 2 - Common Sense: using judgment with Relational Intelligence
- Video: 3 - Sense as direction: developing vision from sensory data
- Practice Quiz: Practice Quiz (lesson1)
- Video: 4 - Getting started with the Conversation
- Video: 5 - Finding your characteristics
- Reading: Additional resources
- Practice Quiz: Practice Quiz (lesson2)
- Video: 6 - Your Leadership Challenge
- Video: 7 - Where do we go from here?
- Practice Quiz: Practice Quiz (lesson3)
- Reading: BOOKS for inspiration
Graded: Reflection to the Conversation
Graded: Graded Quiz
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