2 - The 3Gs: virtuous circles of relational leadership

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Giving Sense to Your Leadership Experience

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HEC Paris

Giving Sense to Your Leadership Experience

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

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. 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.

From the lesson

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.

0- Giving Sense to Your Leadership experience, introduction4:07

1.1- Comparing your Leadership Skills with the ones of famous Leaders6:35

1.2- Charismatic Leadership6:48

2 - The 3Gs: virtuous circles of relational leadership6:52

Meet the Instructors

Valérie Gauthier
Associate Professor, HEC Paris

[MUSIC]

The charismatic leader, as we just saw, is a source of inspiration and influence, but

it is centered on the personality of the leader and does not preclude the purpose,

the goal behind motivation.

Therefore, charisma can lead to dangerous and detrimental purposes

that affect our world and question the very notion of leadership.

This is where I want you to be critical again.

When addressing leadership in today's environment,

we need to challenge leadership in new ways.

We need to craft our own path.

This is where the savoir-relier approach comes in with the three

key characteristics, the 3Gs, for genuine, generous, and generative.

Let's see what they entail, and

how they work together to form the virtuous circles of relational leadership.

First, the genuine.

Being genuine begins by being true to yourself.

Not an easy task when, as a leader, you're asked to take on many roles

in many different situations with varied audiences.

Being a whole person is the first thing that will help you shoulder the roles and

responsibilities that come with leadership positions.

For some, leadership begins with being the elder in a family or

the captain of sports in teams or a parent.

Sometimes, it is linked to your destiny, like that of Apollonia Poilane, our guest

in our previous episode, whose destiny was to become CEO of the family business,

the bakery Poilane at the age of 18.

It does not matter how it happens, you have it inside yourself, and

you have to trust yourself.

Genuine entails candor, that is authenticity,

transparency, sincerity, or straight talk.

It begins with self-awareness and unfolds confidence,

because to be true to yourself, you have to know who you are and where you stand.

It breeds humility instead of arrogance,

because the confidence gained in the self-awareness process,

as you will see later in this module with our second self portrait exercise,

is one of honesty, the one when you don't have to lie to yourself anymore.

So let's stop one second, and pursue your self-assessment of genuine.

On a scale of one to ten, how genuine do you think you are today?

Remember to be honest, and this is the only way for

you to better understand who you are.

Good, this will help you see your progress on the savoir-relier leader scale

with the 3Gs.

Moving to the second characteristic,

generosity, means moving from confidence to trust.

Trust develops from the way you behave with your colleagues and employees or

friends.

It is particularly important in difficult times when you need to stand strong

in the face of adversity.

As a leader, even if you're afraid, nervous, or

agonizing over a complex problem, you must not transfer your own fears to others.

So our second G for generosity implies the ability to engage with passion and

energy, to give the best of yourself.

It's not a question of money.

It's a question of dedication and time or

commitment to a cause, a purpose you set for yourself and with others.

So, one more self-assessment on your generous side,

on a scale of one to ten, how generous do you think you are today?

Combined with genuineness, generosity opens the door to collaborative

leadership, which empowers individuals, so they can play their role effectively.

But you should note that no one,

yes, not even you can really empower another person.

You can only create the conditions that facilitate self-empowerment.

The passion, energy, and drive required to accomplish a task to meet

one's goal is quite visible when watching Kevin Rolland, for example, in his sport.

The action itself, the visible part,

is the result of this dedication day after day of giving and engaging.

Generosity is the key to successful enterprise.

Embedding the collaborate spirit of sharing in what you do

is one way to create an environment of growth, of growth and engagement.

A collaborate environment and a spirit of sharing create platforms for

discussion and debate that leaders should encourage in order to open themselves

to challenging and sometimes conflicting views.

The third G completes the picture with the action itself, the generative.

It is also embedded in a collaboration with the spirit of innovation and trust.

As a generative leader,

you will leverage your experiences of the world to build sense and identity and

identify opportunities, transforming them into concrete output,

new ideas, new products, new strategies, or even new organizations.

Innovation allows you to generate the future, to create a condition for

the future to emerge.

Innovation is the means at all levels of the organization

to translate the vision, the values, and

the sense that you articulate into tangible business outcomes.

You need to be generative to take your vision, your ideas, and

intuitions to market.

In that sense, innovation is not an act, but a mindset that applies

as much to products as to any other aspect of business operations.

Innovation is the first outcome of generative mindset

that combines action and impact.

So, on a scale of one to ten, how generative do you think you are today?

The 3G's operate in sync to form the virtuous circles of relational leadership.

Confidence in being true to yourself, thanks to the genuine, leads to trust in

others with a generous attitude, which results in a desire to be productive and

create sense for yourself and for others, thanks to the generative.

Now we will look into more details at how each characteristic operates and

how you can develop each of them,

while keeping a critical eye on the risks and possible traps that lay ahead of you.

So, prepare yourself for a challenging view and test of the 3Gs.

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