HEC Paris
Certificate

Trust Based Leadership University Certificate

Learn to lead by elevating those around you, in any personal or professional situation. Be equipped and empowered to engage a team around a shared goal, to inspire trust and confidence, and to help those around you overcome disruption and crises.

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Enroll by February 29, 2024

Onboarding starts June 17, 2024

4 months

8-10 hours per week

€4,000

100% online

+Live session classes

Find your own unique leadership style, and bring out the best in others

Build leadership skills with HEC Paris

#1 Business School in Europe by the Financial Times for four consecutive years.

Earn Credits towards a MSc degree from HEC Paris

If you are admitted to HEC’s MSc in Innovation and Entrepreneurship degree, your completed Trust Based Leadership University Certificate will count towards your degree.

Be Job-Ready

Gain career-relevant skills that attract attention from recruiters and hiring managers.

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Program description

Switch from a top-down leadership to an open leadership based on trust and sense.

Overview

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Relationships form the core of any successful project. The ability to connect people with different ideas and practices is what drives value creation in any endeavor. With relational leadership, you’ll be better equipped to meet challenges, face uncertainties, and enable businesses and social enterprises to find genuine purpose.

Using Savoir-Relier, a groundbreaking methodology based on relational leadership research, you will:

  • Increase your self-awareness
  • Enhance confidence and build trust in your relationships
  • Gain a deeper understanding of others and their differences
  • Foster engagement and nurture authenticity
  • Accelerate entrepreneurial activities with responsibility and purpose

You’ll learn from real-world projects and simulation exercises designed by HEC Paris faculty. Your leadership skills will grow, with the help of graded individual feedback from the instructor and live sessions with your peers, helping you find your place in your entrepreneurial community.

Program Objectives:

  • Increase self-confidence and mutual trust across boundaries (SOLO + DUO)
  • Speed up the integration of different types of expertise and knowledge while under pressure (CORES)
  • Enhance group sharing to face challenges and boost performance (CODEV)
  • Align your personal et professional sense of purpose to drive sustainable growth (COREL)

Learning Methods:

The fully online nature of the program allows participants to acquire new knowledge and skills without having to compromise their personal and professional commitments, while benefitting from direct interactions with HEC Paris Faculty, and personalized support from an HEC Paris Program Manager and a dedicated Course Facilitator.

The learning activities combine asynchronous courses, interactive webinars facilitated by HEC Paris professors, and assistance by an experienced Course Facilitator.

Required background

You should have an undergraduate education or a professional interest in innovation and business development, whether for an entrepreneurial venture or for launching new projects within your current organization.

The language of instruction is 100% English. Thus, fluency in English (CEFR C1 level minimum) is mandatory to succeed in this program.

This program is accessible for people with disabilities. Please contact us if you have any specific requirements or to obtain the Public Accessibility Register.

Skills you will gain

  • Build more meaningful relationships with others
  • Overcome difficult situations with resilience
  • Navigate complex systems and chains of command
  • Accommodate and manage contradictory and conflicting viewpoints
  • Speed up the integration of different types of expertise and knowledge while under pressure (CORES)
  • Enhance group sharing to face challenges and boost performance (CODEV)
  • Align your personal and professional sense of purpose to drive sustainable growth (COREL)

4 courses in this 4-month program

Course 1 of 4

Building Your Leadership Skills

Course 2 of 4

Giving Sense to Your Leadership Experience

Course 3 of 4

Leading Organizations

Course 4 of 4

Your Leadership Challenge

Earn credit towards a MSc degree from HEC Paris, offered 100% online.

Take the next step in your education to boost your career. This University Certificate is a building block that offers you a pathway to a degree while also providing job-relevant skills today.

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Trust Based Leadership University Certificate

Trust Based Leadership University Certificate Certificate Earn Credit Towards:

If you are admitted to HEC’s MSc in Innovation and Entrepreneurship degree, your completed Trust Based Leadership University Certificate will count towards your degree.

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Coursera does not grant academic credit; the decision to grant, accept, or recognize academic credit, and the process for awarding such credit, is at the sole discretion of the academic institutions offering the University Certificate program and/or other institutions that have determined that completion of the program may be worthy of academic credit. Completion of a University Certificate program does not guarantee admission into the full Master’s program referenced herein, or any other degree program.