[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.
