Center for Leadership Development and Research

 

 

Leadership Perspectives (OB 363)

Leadership Perspectives is a 4-unit elective offered in Autumn Quarter.  Each week, one class involves interactive lectures with visiting executives, and the other class involves small group discussion. In the weekly small group discussions, students learn how practicing leaders implement their principles, while reflecting the realities of different cultural expectations and meeting business demands.

The course examines the concept of principled leadership and the various ways that business leaders try to institutionalize particular values within the organizations they lead. Equally important, it explores the difficult challenges that leaders sometimes face when trying to apply their principles in a tough, fast-paced business environment, where others may not share the same expectations.  The course provides a forum for students to learn directly from practicing leaders and to think introspectively about their own personal values, leadership styles, and long-term aspirations.

 

Leadership Coaching and Mentoring
(OB 362/392)

Leadership Coaching and Mentoring is a two-quarter experiential course for second-year MBAs, in which students learn how to be leaders who can develop others through coaching and mentoring. Students work in depth, one on one with three first-year students during Winter and Spring quarters. In addition to class sessions, students also meet in clinics with master coaches to further develop their skills and competencies.

Leadership Coaching and Mentoring provides students with the critical skills needed to develop others through effective coaching and mentoring and enhances their own leadership in the process. Armed with an in-depth understanding of fundamental coaching and mentoring concepts and strategies and tools, students will be able to help future employees develop new capabilities, build skills to solve their own problems, and achieve professional growth.