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
The first four weeks of this course will be spent 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 remaining weeks 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 PLPD 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.
Special Notes: 1) As a pilot course, enrollment is limited to 36 students; 2) Prerequisite of BUSO600/BUSI662: Leadership and Teamwork; 3) There is a course materials fee for the Hogan Assessments of $140.