With nearly 100,000 employees, more than 150 nationalities, and 500 professions represented in its workforce, Total is hugely rich in human capital – exemplified by the group’s tremendous technical and commercial expertise. Total, looks forward to an exciting future as it pursues its ambition to lead the way towards a better energy future. To fulfill its ambition, the challenge the group now faces is to build the leadership and management capacity capable of embracing the changes implicit in delivering the significant benefits that the technological advances now offer. To meet this challenge, the company doesn’t need to undertake some major cultural change but rather to improve collaborative working at team level and across functions. The priority is to help managers strengthen their relational intelligence, create a climate conducive to collective performance, and develop better dynamics within teams so they fulfill their potential effectiveness and creativity through collaboration. And to take up the challenge, Total has chosen EMLyon Business School to design and deliver an initiative called Smarter Teamwork—a 100% distance and blended learning intervention—to reach out to managers and support their collaborative learning worldwide.