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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Building Your Leadership Skills by HEC Paris

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About the 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....

Top reviews

DK

Aug 29, 2018

Exceptional and outstanding program. thanks a ton SR team... I am thoroughly enjoying it while learning. Highly recommended for people who wants to explore his/her hidden treasure of Leadership

MS

Apr 27, 2020

I was pleased with the result as it was a challenging experience that I was able to successfully complete .

The course is suitable for all kind of professionals which enhancing soft skills.

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By MOHD A K

Sep 17, 2019

The course is really informative & helps me to understand my strengths and weaknesses as well as Leadership development needs. I am thoroughly enjoying it while learning. Highly recommended for people who want to explore his/her hidden treasure of Leadership.

By Vasiliki K

Jan 3, 2021

Amazing experience! I really loved it! Our coach-instructor was extraordinary! I enjoyed her so much in all the Weekly courses. The videos are perfect. An amazing journey! Everybody must enroll in this course for their personal growth.

By Marina P

Dec 29, 2020

It's an amazing course and Valerie is a fanatstic teacher, calm patient friendly with so much self confidence willing to share her knowledge with us all.

By NIKOLAOS G

Dec 28, 2020

An excellent course that teaches how to raise self awareness through the Savoir-Relier approach!!

By Mussarat J

Nov 13, 2018

The contents of the course are very brief. It would be good if more emphasis is given on the practical applicability of the techniques.

By Abhayo

Jul 10, 2023

First the positives, Valerie was very enthusiastic, and not just about her wardrobe. Secondly, the "course" was only three weeks long.

Now, for the review. Fortunately, the first section was only three weeks or else it would have been an immediate drop once I realized the true goal seemed to serve as Valerie's fashion coordinator and count how many times, she changed her wardrobe. If I'm taking a course, I'm focusing more on substance and content; not the flash and fashion statement being made. Also, unless I'm watching the lectures straight through, kind of an unrealistic expectation on Valerie's part to think a couple of day days later, when I come back to a self-paced course, that my focus and study time be on her wardrobe from 3 days ago me. As for substance, the organization was lacking and there were so many errors in grading, that updated apparently updated quizzes had been added; yet the original quizzes are still included --- still with all the wrong answers. For example, If the question asks which section was the most difficult for me; then I shouldn't have to select every answer if I didn't find all sections equally difficult. Likewise, if it asks me how long it took for me to write my essay, and it took my 1 hour; then I shouldn't have to select every answer available to get credit. It's not only fallacious in its logic, but also erroneous, and is contrary to the "Honor Code" that we sign before each and every submission.

Overall, even at three weeks, I felt it was a huge waste of time and have no desire to take any other classes in the SR series.

By Stephen R

Jul 2, 2023

I really hate leaving bad reviews for things, but this course was bad.

On just a technical level, this is problematic and will annoy you. Quizes have multiple problems, and at some point were updated - by adding another copy of the quiz while leaving the old bad quiz in the course. And you have to do both. There a multiple broken links in references and reading sections too. In video quizes are also badly timed in places, a few even showing *before* the information by a few seconds.

The week 1 spends the majority of it just talking about the SR process and why it is so great, barely touching on anything practical. Silly "tricks" are used the course around how many times she has changed her shirt.

By Hronis P

Feb 11, 2021

I tried my best to do all the work required, but there were problems. I managed to go to the second week but there were links that did not work and generally a strange feeling that this course was made just to sell some more books or increase followers and subscribers in the tutor's site. I didn't like that the whole course was based on a specific idea of the tutor and was talking all the time about the tutor. The last thing (the one that made me quit), was when I spent a whole hour writing about myself in the external link that I had to subscribe (I didn't like that either) and when I finished editing my assignment the save button didn't work, so I lost everything. Pourly made course....

By Pansy A

Apr 16, 2017

I've just wasted 2 hours going through repetitions of what I'll learn, but not actually learning anything. Why is it called free, if I can't submit answers to quizzes unless I upgrade first!

I now have an adverse reaction towards that course that it doesn't really have much content to it, and I'm not the least eager to upgrade. Thank you very much!

By Gilles L

Feb 11, 2021

I enrolled and Selected the Audit button, then took a look to the preview and noticed it was not for me. Guess what? You can't even unenroll from that course! Clicking on unenroll is disabled form the dia!og box!

By Basil A

Jun 16, 2017

I am surprised this course has HEC name on it. It is a complete disappointment and includes too much self-marketing.

By Sanjeev J

Jun 25, 2020

Not very genuine.Over emphasis on some terms that seems vague, does not connect.

By Helen R P

Jan 6, 2017

I really did not understand this course. There was way too much jargon.

By Rishav A

Aug 23, 2020

I found it very commercial. Not recommended for a paid course.

By lindsay l

Feb 9, 2017

not very dynamic

By Marwa S A H

Jun 6, 2023

Long course!

By Fadi R

Nov 18, 2018

Bad course

By Javier F

Oct 21, 2015

I didn't finish the course yet, but I strongly recommend this course to anyone interested in these skills. Even if you cannot read the books proposed because you don't have time like me, it gives all the aspects you need to understand, and maybe learn that in the future. The quality of the videos and explanations are overwhelming, I don't know if you can see such level of patience and great speech in other courses and it's FREE. If you take this course please be aware that the method Savoir Relier takes you to a profound journey into your own life, you will revisited things inside yourself, how you are inside this world with another person, a group and the society. It follows introspection, relationships, reflection, experiences and senses, emotions. You need to be ready to open your mind and heart.

By Jacqueline C

Oct 16, 2020

I love this course! The instructor is engaging and the video/lectures are informative and entertaining. it's a new way of looking at leadership that relies more on soft skills and on one's own self-awareness. The only downside is that the alternative website used for this course is not easy to navigate and not that user friendly. I set asides two hours as suggested to do the self-reflection and it didn't save what I wrote. It was on the third attempt that I was able to save my material and progress with the course. That part was frustrating because I did not want my obtaining a certificate to be jeopardized by something beyond my control. That said, I still love the course and hope the kinks are worked out. I also hope I still get my certificate.

By WENDY A V

Jul 14, 2022

I take this course Building your Leadership Skills because I want to know more about myself on being an educational leader someday. This course really helped me to gain self-confidence, be self-aware and to improve my capacity to grow. From the videos, exercises and quizzes I gained a lot of knowledge and skills to become a sensible and effective leader. I love this course so much from the Associate Professor Valérie Gauthier and her team of HEC Paris, I love them because they are warm people and they share their knowledge and experience wholeheartedly. To the exercises that are helpful and beneficial in building my leadership skills, I thank this course and all of the people behind the success of this experience. 

Thank you so much! God bless.

By Tatiana R

Sep 26, 2017

I enjoyed taking this MOOC. The content is very valuable and the format it was delivered in was intuitive and interesting. I have already reccomended it to friends and family!

My only constructive criticism is that switching form one website to another for completing assignments sometimes bothersome, and that the videocall app on the savoir relier website did not work on my computer. These are only technical issues, but in terms of the value of the course, they are only minor.

By Thierry G

Sep 5, 2017

This course is focused on the ability that we have to self identify our characteristics based on observation. there is an interesting approach by connecting with each other through an open exchange. the examination is not hard at all, but only checks that you have understood the concept. Do not expect to be a ready to go leader getting out of the module, but to be prepared to correctly work on yourself and listen to your needs to become the leader you think you can be.

By Naveen G

Mar 1, 2021

i thoroughly enjoyed Self Portrait and more than that Duo conversation. Self Portrait was like summing up me so far and Duo was getting a new dimension of me and a wonderful feeling. The short videos doesn't make it boring and evenly placed quizzes make it challenging. I also like the concept of retaking the quiz which focuses not on pass or fail but on giving you the right understanding of the concepts. thank you Savoir-Relier team!

By LORZA R A F

Apr 23, 2021

En mi concepto es muy bueno ,si realizas todas alas actividades a conciencia y como el curso las demanda. Siempre será difícil realizar trabajos de análisis internos, por que generalmente no nos gusta identificar nuestras debilidades y siempre las escondemos mediante comportamientos. Se que ser líder o buen líder es el tema de este curso, pero creo que lo primero es liderar nuestras vidas para así liderar otras.

By Graziella B

Oct 30, 2021

I am so glad I enrolled this course.

As our instructor said, it makes us develop our self confidence. While I find it hard talking about myself, this course helped me highlight a lot of skills, I am proud today to talk about.

In this course, I feel we need a lot of emojis to react on every single touching thing that our instructor or her youth gests say.

Many thanks to Coursera for giving me this opportunity!