A Leader With Sense: Finding Your Leadership Style using Savoir-Relier
Learn Path Description
Follow in the footsteps of successful teams and leaders at Apple and L’OréalThis leadership training ExpertTrack offers you the chance to study leadership styles alongside top author and HEC Paris Professor, Valérie Gauthier.
Using the tried and tested Savoir-Relier methodology, you’ll develop your own individual leadership style whilst building essential skills in collaborative leadership and relationship-building.
Whether you want to prepare for facing challenges as a leader or you want to learn the value of collaboration in leadership, this ExpertTrack will help you improve your ability to respond to leadership challenges and complex situations at work.
Build lasting relationships based on trust in current and new teams
In todays’ world, a top-down leadership approach is no longer viable. This ExpertTrack teaches you a new leadership approach based on relational competence, where effective communication and relationships with others are key to strong performance.
Over 16 weeks, you’ll explore:
self-awareness and self-confidence
leadership styles
team dynamics
relational intelligence
complex relationships
finding a sense of purpose.
Practice self-development to grow as a leader
During the first sections of the course, you’ll get to know yourself and your own leadership style better.
Under the guidance of Professor Gauthier herself, you’ll have the chance to deepen your understanding of yourself and improve your interaction with others.
You’ll also work on your relational skills, and learn how to build trust amongst your team in order to create a more collaborative environment that breeds innovation.
Discover the benefits of relational leadership to enhance collaboration
Savoir-Relier enables leaders to build trust and generate inclusion and diversity at work.
You’ll explore in-depth how working as a team is essential in fast-paced working environments and leads to increased business innovation and success.
You’ll learn how to build trust and improve team dynamics, as well as how to engage and motivate your team to get results.
Build self-confidence, collective resilience, and a shared sense of purpose
Tensions within a team quickly become obvious and affect everyone. In order to cope with such challenges as a leader, it’s vital to have self-awareness, resilience, and confidence.
You’ll develop these competencies with the Savoir-Relier’s step by step process, so that you can increase your capacity to cope with crises.
As you discover how to lead more confidently and compassionately, you’ll learn how to foster resilience in your team and build a shared purpose.
Grow your leadership using the popular and effective Savoir-Relier method
So far, 110,000 leaders around the world have learned and reaped the benefits of the Savoir-Relier method. With a 97% satisfaction rate among learners, the Savoir-Relier protocol is based on more than 25 years of research and practice.
Its positive impact on individuals and teams can be seen in a wide range of industry-leading companies, including Apple, L’Oréal, LVMH, Sanofi, and Pernod Ricard.
Delivering the course is Savoir-Relier creator and author of leadership training book, Leading with Sense, Professor Valérie Gauthier.
Gauthier holds a BS in Psychology, Masters in Modern Literature and English, a PhD in Comparative Literature and Stanford’s Graduate Business School’s Executive Program (EPSO).
Drawing from her expertise in linguistics and poetic translation as well as leadership and cross-cultural relationships, she has built multiple relational communication and leadership development programs in universities and organisations (including NYU Stern and MIT Sloan) under the concept of Savoir-Relier.
Elected best HEC Paris Professor of the year, she has received the HEC Vernimmen award, and in 2010 was decorated with the Knight of the French National Order of the Legion of Honor and selected as Visionary by the Fortune Global Visionaries Forum.
Skills You Will Gain
Courses In This Learning Path
Total Duration
4 weeks
Level
Intermediate
Learn Type
Certifications
Awareness and Confidence for Effective Leadership
This course will introduce you to the Savoir-Relier method, which is a revolutionary approach to leadership development.
You will be a leader in the future or an aspiring leader. This will allow you to ask questions and reflect about yourself, so that you can better understand your self and how you can help others.
You'll learn how to increase self-awareness by self-reflection, introspection, as well as grow your understanding of yourself with the SOLO exercise.
It is essential to understand yourself and your perspective before you can grow as a leader.
Professor Gauthier's research reveals specific questions that will unlock your inner self.
This course will teach you how to self-reflect, introspection and self-development.
You can increase your self-awareness by using the Savoir-Relier method.
This course was created by ValA(c),rie Gauthier, a renowned academic and linguist.
Professor Gauthier has a Bachelor's degree in Psychology, a Masters Degree in Modern Literature, and a PhD. He also holds a Master's Degree in Comparative Literature.
Professor Gauthier has taught courses at HEC Paris and NYU Stern, as well as building multiple relationships and leadership development. Her vast expertise in linguistics, poetic translation, leadership, and cross-cultural relationships will be of great benefit to you.
You can see some of the steps in this course before you sign up.
Total Duration
4 weeks
Level
Beginner
Learn Type
Certifications
Build Trust and Grow your Self-Confidence
On this second course in Valerie Gauthier's Leading With Sense ExpertTrack, you'll identify and develop the skills required to grow positive interpersonal relationships\n.\nYou'll focus on using your five senses when interacting with others in order to create a constructive environment for a relationship to grow.
People are relational creatures. Good relationships with others can directly impact individual well-being and success. When leading a team, trust is especially important.
This course will teach you how to establish trusting relationships and have the confidence and courage to share your views with others.
Learn the skills needed to build trust and how to use the DUO exercise to develop the mindset required to create trustworthy relationships.
It is vital to share some of your own self in order to build trust. This takes inner strength and courage to openly share your vulnerabilities with others.
Professor Gauthier will teach you how to increase your self-confidence, and to find the courage to share.
You'll learn the Savoir-Relier leadership technique and how to listen and appreciate other points of view. Also, you will be able to see yourself through the eyes of others.
Valérie Gauthier, a renowned academic and linguist created this course.
Professor Gauthier has taught courses at HEC Paris and NYU Stern, as well as MIT Sloan. He also developed many courses in relational communication, leadership development, and other communication skills.
Total Duration
4 weeks
Level
Intermediate
Learn Type
Certifications
Collective Resilience: From Group to Team
Leaders and managers have the opportunity to create the conditions that allow their teams to succeed by taking the ExpertTrack's third course, Leading With Sense using Savoir-Relier.
This course will help you learn about collaborative leadership, whether you are taking on new responsibilities, joining an unfamiliar company, integrating teams or managing multi-cultural teams.
This course will help you identify, explore and discuss the challenges that you face as a leader together with other online learners.
The FutureLearn social learning platform is a tool that teaches you how to trust others and share your problems.
Effective management and team performance are dependent on collective resilience.
You'll build on the knowledge from previous ExpertTrack courses and learn how to build trust among your team and use storytelling as a collaborative work technique.
Additionally, you'll be able to practice and learn exercises that will help build positive team dynamics as well as collective resilience.
It is vital to be able to recognize the challenges, adversity and barriers that your multicultural team might face in order to help them succeed.
Learn how to build trust and communication within your team.
Total Duration
4 weeks
Level
Beginner
Learn Type
Certifications
Design your Purpose as a Leader
The final course in the ExpertTrack series, "Leading with Sense: Discovering Your Leadership Style with Savoir-Relier," offers participants the opportunity to explore their personal sense of purpose and how it aligns with their organization's values. This course introduces the Savoir-Relier leadership method, which aims to create a shared sense of purpose that can drive positive change and innovation within the organization.
One of the challenges many companies face is reconciling individual and collective goals and objectives. This course will use the Savoir-Relier method to explore why tensions and discrepancies between an organization's purpose and its people can actually lead to positive change. By understanding your own sense of purpose, you will be better equipped to align your career and personal goals with it.
Professor Valérie Gauthier will guide participants in identifying their purpose and creating a better work-life balance. The course will also cover leadership skills, teaching participants how to lead others and build influence. Participants will learn how to establish meaningful goals and achieve leadership success, acting in line with their values and committing to decisions regardless of the outcome.
By completing this course, individuals will gain a deeper understanding of their own sense of purpose and how it relates to their role as a leader. They will also acquire valuable skills in leading others, setting goals, and making decisions that align with their values. Ultimately, this course empowers participants to become purposeful leaders who can drive positive change within their organizations.
