MCS Leadership Development Seminar

Catalog description

This course is designed for 3rd-year and 4th-year Mellon College of Science students committed to further developing their leadership skills and potential for sustained impact in the future. The course will be substantive and engaging, while also ideally thought provoking, edifying, and enjoyable. The course will build on the foundation of six key leadership pillars, identified to hone each students professional and personal development to serve others, and to seek out and nurture opportunities to heighten ones capacity as a person and leader who is: VISIONARY, with clear goals for yourself, your organizations and communities, and others in whose lives you are a part, including the broader society; ETHICAL, with core values and steadfastness in the face of competing objectives, and the resilience to deal with conflicts without moral compromise; ENGAGING, with empathy, attentive interpersonal attributes, outstanding formal and informal communication skills, and the capacity to inspire; TACTICAL, with an ability to operationalize big ideas and bring them to fruition, creating the ideal environment for individual and group success; TECHNICAL, based on your own high-level skill set and the ego strength for inclusion of others with complementary realms of expertise; REFLECTIVE, manifesting in the honest appraisal of personal and organizational success against metrics, and the ability to redirect based on assessment.