Collaborative Leadership

Catalog description

The Collaborative Leadership (C-LEAD) provides an end-to-end collaborative leader development experience. The course includes a series of experiences that allow students to learn about teammates and to identify individual strengths and weaknesses in being an effective team member and leader. The experiences emphasize leading through collaboration, which is one of the distinctive values in the Duke MBA culture. C-LEAD is an experiential complement to the Leadership, Ethics, and Organizations (LEO) core course. It offers the opportunity to practice and implement the principles first learned in LEO and through exposure to other coursework at Fuqua. There is a strong emphasis on collaborative leadership—working together in teams to accomplish goals, stepping up to guide the team when the situation demands it, holding oneself and others to high standards, and helping teammates contribute and learn. As students move into their second year, the team focus will continue along with some additional focus on self-awareness and practicing inclusive leadership. By design, additional development opportunities are provided throughout the Leadership Communication courses in the fall of the first year, in club and community leadership roles, in selected elective courses, and in sponsored workshops. The majority of the C-LEAD events are organized around assigned C-LEAD teams. Team class assignments and projects allow students to develop effective practices for coordination and collaboration, as well as a sense of camaraderie for working together. This course is for Daytime MBA and Accelerated Daytime MBA students.