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Giving Sense to Your Leadership Experience (Coursera)

Offered by HEC Paris,

With this course you will position your own leadership style and grow your resilience. In this course, second course of the "Inspirational Leadership" Specialization, you will discover the characteristics of charismatic leadership. You’ll personally learn how to embody these traits through the “Savoir-Relier” (art of connecting and leading with sense) methodology, which covers 3Gs: being Genuine, Generous, and Generative. You will then choose which style of leadership best fits you, why and when so you can adapt to more complex and difficult situations with resilience.

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In a “Self-Portrait” and “Conversation” with your classmates, you will be able to adjust your own ideas about your leadership styles and strengths, allowing you to increase your self-awareness, improve your relational intelligence, and prepare you to confront crises and resolve conflicts. You will also be better prepared to face difficult situations and make better decisions by relying on both your perception and analytical skills. All these skills will help you create sense in your team so you can lead it better.
This course is part of a Specialization on Leadership called “Inspirational Leadership: Leading with Sense”, so you may want to take the course “Building Your Leadership Skills” prior of taking this course. As where in course 1 “Building Your Leadership Skills” you have mostly worked on your inner-self and on the relation between you and the other, in this course you’ll work on the relationship between you and the group, improving your leadership skills when interacting in a team.
Leaders from different organizations and participants of the HEC Paris Leadership Certificate, the program from which this course and specialization is inspired, will share with you their insights about what it takes to become a great leader in a group or team and what they are able to achieve now that they apply The Savoir-Relier methodology.

Course 2 of 4 in the Inspirational Leadership: Leading with Sense Specialization.

Syllabus

WEEK 1
Understand your leadership style
By the end of this module you will have further explored and tested your leadership characteristics by comparing them to the genuine, generous and generative attitude of the savoir-relier leader. Your self-awareness will get to a higher level thanks to the second self-portrait exercise.

WEEK 2
Positioning your leadership
With this module you will manage your own leadership style with reference to different leadership models and you will be able to adapt your style to the situation, task and people. Your second Duo (=conversation) will build more confidence and you will master your relational skills even more.

WEEK 3
Embracing change from resilience
By this end of this module you will know how to become more resilient and apply that skill to facing complex problems or inventing new ways and solutions to new situations.

WEEK 4
Building sense for your leadership challenge
With this module you will become sense builders, that is someone who can create sense to drive change and innovation. You will test your team management skills in the context of a cooking exercise and you will apply your relational skills to your leadership challenge

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