Graduate Leadership Program

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Graduate Leadership Program

• Pre-Term 2008
• Wharton Leadership Program Overview
• http//leadership.wharton.upenn.edu/mba
• mbaleadership_at_wharton.upenn.edu

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Our Leadership Framework

• Leadership is
• Action.
• Relationships.
• A lifelong developmental process.
• Situational and contextual.
• Vision, strategy, and action.
• Worthwhile.
• Your responsibility.

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Our Mission

• Mission
• To develop leaders who act with a deeper
  understanding of themselves, their organizations,
  and their communities, and contribute positively
  to the growth of each.

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Our Mission

• To develop leaders
• who act
• with a deeper understanding of themselves, their
  organizations, and their communities,
• and contribute positively
• to the growth of each.

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Our Vision

• Vision
• To be an impactful global leader in the creation
  and dissemination of knowledge, skills, and
  abilities that support lifelong leadership
  development.

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Todays Agenda

• Provide an overview of
• Pre Term Programming
• MGMT 652 and Learning Teams
• Annual Co-Curricular Programming

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Pre-Term Programming

• Leadership Navigation Challenge (LEAD001)
• Section 1 Thursday August 14, 3 pm 8 pm
• Section 2 Friday August 15, 3 pm 8 pm
• Leveraging Insights from the MBTI (LEAD002)
  sponsored with Career Management
• Sections 1-3 Tuesday August 19, 10 am
  1145 pm, 1 pm 245 pm, 3 pm 445 pm
• Sections 4-6 Wednesday August 20 10 am
  1145 pm, 1 pm 245 pm, 3 pm 445 pm
• Sections 7-9 Friday August 22 10 am 1145
  pm, 1 pm 245 pm, 3 pm 445 pm
• Networking for Success (LEAD003)
• Section 1 Monday August 18, 10am -- Noon
• Section 2 Monday August 18, 2pm -- 4pm
• Total Leadership Seminar (LEAD004)
• Session 1 Wednesday August 13, 2 4 pm

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Pre-Term Assignments

• Core Values
• Retreat Consent Form

Assignments are due at 1 pm Friday August 15!
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Management 652

• Course Head Dr. Sigal Barsade
• Faculty Dr. Stew Friedman
• Dr. John Kimberly
• Dr. Monica McGrath
• Dr. Gregory Shea
• Course Meets in Q1 and Q4
• Leadership Fellows, TAs for the course

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Learning Team Retreat

• Meet your learning team
• Establish cohort as learning community
• Engage in activities to spur formation of both
  learning team and cohort

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Leadership Fellows Program

• The Leadership Fellows are 40 second-year MBA
  students who serve as teaching assistants for the
  core course in Leadership, faciliatate the
  Learning Team Retreat, help the first year
  learning teams through their formation and
  development process, and serve as mentors to
  first year students.
• Intense interview process with current fellows
  followed by a rigorous training program.
  Applications and training during second semester
  of 1st year.
• Training in self-awareness, facilitation,
  teamwork, conflict management, and more.

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Leadership Development and Coaching Program

• Joint venture between MBA Program Office and
  Leadership Program
• Individualized program to help students identify
  and develop their leadership skills through
  coaching and mentoring.
• Essential elements of the program include
  self-assessment, a group dynamics workshop,
  one-on-one coaching, a communication workshop,
  and alumni mentoring.
• Runs from second semester 1st year through first
  semester 2nd year.

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Wharton Leadership Ventures

• A set of experiential leadership education
  opportunities for MBA students, undergrad,
  executives, and alumni
• Focused on building awareness and skills in the
  areas of leadership and teamwork through
  experiential education

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Wharton Leadership Ventures
2008 2009 MBA Calendar Sept Quantico
(USMC) Jan Ecuador Mountaineering Jan
Antarctica Trekking Jan Baja Sea Kayaking Feb
Adirondacks Ice Climbing Mar Ecuador
Mountaineering Mar Caribbean Sailing Mar
Patagonia Trekking April Quantico (USMC) May
Kilimanjaro Mountaineering May Atacama Desert
Trekking May Alaska Mountaineering
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Wharton Leadership Ventures
Leadership is an intangible in the classroom,
but it was crystal clear every day through our
adventure in a way I had never experienced
through sports. The lessons learned will
certainly change the way I engage the world and
those around me in the years to come.
Ecuador 2004 participant
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Venture Fellows Program

• Student trip leader responsible for venture
  curriculum design, facilitation, and logistics
• Developmental opportunity designed to build
  skills and experience around leadership,
  management, facilitation, communication, and
  environmental ethics.
• Training curriculum (WFA, NOLS, Outward Bound,
  Prof. Mike Useem)
• Applications due second semester of 1st year.

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Leadership Development Workshop Series

• The Leadership Development Workshop Series
  provides students with a set of active learning
  opportunities.
• This series focuses on one to three day workshops
  that highlight alternative leadership education
  methodologies or specific topics.
• Examples include
• Gettysburg Battlefield Workshop, Leadership
  Through The Arts, Meditation, Small Group
  Processes, Organizational Politics, and The
  Disability Experience.

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Non Profit Board Leadership Program

• Wharton's Non Profit Board Leadership Program
  (NPBLP) was launched in the spring of 2005 with
  the goal of creating an experiential learning
  environment for students that would also support
  local non-profits.
• The NPBLP seeks to provide second year MBAs with
  a greater sense of how their leadership skills
  can be used to make a significant contribution
  within the non-profit sector.
• Attend regular board meetings, serve on a board
  sub-committee and receive one-on-one mentorship
  from a senior board member.
• Selected at the end of 1st year, serve during 2nd
  year.

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Social Enterprise Fellows

• Focus on development of community leadership and
  the creation of sustainable social value through
  cross-sector collaboration
• First semester integrates MBAs into the
  curriculum of the Masters Program in Non Profit
  and NGO Leadership for classroom study of social
  movements and cross-sector collaboration
• Second semester focuses on a field placement with
  an organization focused on building partnerships
  between private, public, and not-for-profit
  organizations.
• Apply end of first semester of 1st year, program
  runs second semester of 1st year and first
  semester of 2nd year.

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Other Opportunities

• Pre-Term
• Kaboom! Playground Build
• Social Impact Salons
• Academic Year
• MBA Leadership Advisory Representatives
• Wharton Leadership Lectures
• WGA Leadership Roles
• WGA Clubs
• Student Conferences

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Center for Leadership and Change Management

• Mission
• 1) stimulate basic research and practical
  application in the area of leadership and change
• 2) foster an understanding of how to develop
  organizational leadership
• 3) support the leadership development agendas of
  the Wharton School and University of
  Pennsylvania.

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Leadership Advisory Board

• Mission provide support and advice on evolving
  and expanding the Leadership Centers and Wharton
  Schools leadership initiatives
• Chair Todd Thomson, CEO, Headwaters Capital
• Deepak Advani, Senior Vice President and Senior
  Marketing Officer, Lenovo
• Maria Bartiromo, Anchor, Business News, CNBC
• Grant Behrman, Managing Partner, Behrman Capital
• Alain Belda, Chairman Chief Executive Officer,
  ALCOA
• Peter Dawkins, Vice Chairman, Citigroup Private
  Bank former Army general
• William Egan, Founder and General Partner, Alta
  Communications
• Thomas P. Gerrity, Dean Emeritus and Professor of
  Management, Wharton School
• Alex Gorsky, Company Group Chairman, ETHICON,
  Johnson JOhnson
• Rick Leib, former Vice Chairman, SEI Investments
• David Pottruck, Chairman CEO, Red Eagle
  Ventures
• Judith Rodin, President, The Rockefeller
  Foundation

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Global Leadership Institute
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Leadership at Wharton

• I take leadership to signify the act of
  making a differenceIt requires us to make an
  active choice among plausible alternatives, and
  it depends on bringing others along, on
  mobilizing them to get the job done. Leadership
  is at its best when the vision is strategic, the
  voice persuasive, and the results tangible.
• Dr. Mike Useem,
• The Leadership Moment

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