Overview
The Vanderbilt Leadership Development Program (LDP) is a truly transformational experience. You will have access to best-in-class, cutting-edge leadership development typically reserved for senior managers at Fortune 500 companies. And since no two student are alike, you will customize LDP to fit your unique leadership needs. Upon graduation, you will have had the opportunity to gain the tools to rise above the crowds and rapidly advance to the next levels of leadership.
Year One (click on image below to enlarge)
During your first year, LDP is integrated into the MBA curriculum through a mix of coaching, team application, online tools and complementary programming. Each mod focuses on a foundational theme for successful leadership development, helping to ensure that you build steady, incremental growth toward your personal leadership goals.
LDP Kickoff
During MBA Orientation, you will become part of a team and immediately begin learning the fundamentals of leadership development.
Executive Coaching
A professional executive coach will work with you individually to maximize your personal development. Your coach will help you navigate the results of your Hogan Personal Leadership Assessment, uncovering your strengths and targeting areas for improvement. You will meet with your coach three times during the fall.
Giving and Receiving Feedback
360-degree feedback helps increase your awareness of how you are perceived. Feedback can be extremely powerful and positive, or it can be a disaster. In LDP, you will use online peer feedback tools to practice some of leadership’s most difficult skills in a safe environment. This feedback will increase your self-awareness and give you insight into areas that need to be developed.
Maximizing Team Performance
A trained MBA Leadership Coach will facilitate your core MBA class teams during six intensive sessions, helping you learn the skills to catalyze a team to achieve outstanding results
Special Programming
Throughout the year, you will enjoy special programming that includes bestselling leadership book discussions, exercises, projects, workshops, exclusive access to executives-in-residence and more.
Year Two-Optional (click on image below to enlarge)
Leadership In Action
In your second year, you can choose to dive deeper into leadership development through one or all of these optional elements. Leadership in Action (LIA) LIA is a remarkable project-based course that puts your skills to the test in the real world. The year-long course (6 credits) includes:
Strategic Project: Create an external project with the organization of your choice, build a team, and manage the team and project from start to finish.
Peer Group Learning: Power up your skills with regular problem-solving sessions with fellow LIA students. Meetings are professionally facilitated and often include outside speakers.
Military Immersion: Experience first-hand the rigors of military leadership techniques and learn how they apply to business during this three-day off-site experience.
Leadership Coach
Build on your leadership competencies and share your knowledge by serving as a Leadership Coach for first-year MBAs. Includes a class in coaching skills taught by faculty from the Owen organizational studies department and the Vanderbilt Peabody College of Education and Human Development, ranked #2 among graduate schools of education nationwide. Leadership Coaches receive class credit and compensation.
Special Programming
What kind of leader do you want to be? Explore an extraordinary range of opportunities to work on the individual leadership competencies that you most want to develop. Includes workshops, speakers, exercise, meetings with executives-in-residence and more.
| The Impact Skill: Learning Agility “Learning is the essential skill of Leadership.”* This quote expresses the importance that the Vanderbilt Leadership Development Program places on Learning Agility. Learning Agility is the ability to absorb knowledge from each experience and then build new leadership competencies based on this knowledge. The key outcome of Learning Agility is behavior flexibility, the skillful adaptation of leadership behavior to each situation. It is knowing when and how to act, and it is absolutely critical to your success-or failure-as a leader. Most successful executives spend a lifetime mastering Learning Agility. By gaining exposure to these skills early, and beginning to develop them during your two years, you will have a competitive advantage few can match. *Geeks and Geezers, Warren Bennis and Robert Thomas, 2002. |
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