SUMMER I & II CLASS TIME AND DATES (May 19 - August 22)
- May 19 - June 16, Mondays, 6:30pm-8:00pm: Weekly virtual zoom sessions (no class on Memorial Day, 5/26)
- June 27th, Friday, 9:30am-2:30pm: In-person experiential challenge #1, Annapolis, Maryland (bus travel to and from College Park)
- June 30 - August 18, Mondays, 6:30pm-8:00pm: Bi-weekly virtual zoom sessions
- August 22nd, Friday, 9:30am-4:30pm: In-person experiential challenge #2, Annapolis, Maryland (bus travel to and from College Park)
Important Note: Associated Course Fee detailed below.
COURSE PURPOSE: YOUR purposeful, personal development as a leader
This course is all about you and your development as a leader; not just concepts but taking action NOW to grow your capacity to lead. To accomplish this, the course incorporates a variety of leadership development tools:
- Developing a personal strategic plan
- Completing & receiving a personalized debrief on two top-rated leadership assessments
- Developing an actionable, personal leadership development plan
- Working with a “POD” of three students to support implementation of your development plan
- Two competitive hands-on challenges to help you build self-awareness and measure your progress.
COURSE STRUCTURE
The first four weeks of this course will be spent in virtual class sessions applying the concepts of the CEO of ME, Inc. to you. As a CEO does for their organization, you will develop a strategic plan for yourself by answering four questions:
- What is your purpose
- What is your value proposition
- What does success look like
- With whom should you trade
Armed with your CEO of Me, Inc strategic plan, you will then drill down to an immediately actionable Personal Leadership Development Plan (PLDP) that you will put into action and implement over the remainder of the course. This deliberate practice plan is all about leveraging day-to-day experience at work to help develop a new skill or desired behavior you identified as important to your strategic plan. To help you identify a specific skill or behavior to focus on in your PLDP, you will take two assessments from Hogan Assessments which are used by most of the Fortune 100 for developing their senior leaders. These two assessments will help you understand how your behavioral tendencies – both in everyday conditions and stressful conditions – can be experienced by others. This rigorous dose of self-awareness will help you pinpoint a target behavior to work on for the summer.
With your PLDP in place, you will work together in a group of three peers to put your deliberate practice plan into action. Much like workout buddies, your “POD” (partners in ongoing development) and your professor will help you set weekly development actions, reflect, and stick to your deliberate practice plan.
Bookending the implementation of your personal practice plan are two mandatory in-person experiential challenges taking place in Annapolis, MD: the Annapolis Amazing Race where you will follow clues to find locations while solving puzzles along the way; and, a head-to-head boat race where you and your classmates man two 70-foot schooners in a race. The purpose of these experiences is to put you in a novel, competitive situation dependent on smooth collaboration with others so that you observe and reflect on your targeted behavior – once at the beginning of the leadership development period and once at the end.
1) As a pilot course, enrollment is limited to 24 students; 2) Fall 2024 admitted students and earlier can register provided that they have completed the prerequisite BUSI662 or BUSO600 Leadership & Teamwork; 3) There is a course fee of $300 that covers costs associated with the Hogan Assessments and the experiential sessions (e.g., bus travel to and from College Park and Annapolis, lunch, boat race). This fee is non-refundable and is charged on May 19, 2025.