Practical Leadership

A photo of a person dashing across a typical boardroom.

A person dashes across a typical boardroom. (Image courtesy of Nick Cowie, stock.xchng.)

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MIT Course Number

15.974

As Taught In

Fall 2004

Level

Graduate

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Course Description

Course Features

Course Description

Practical Leadership is an interactive seminar where students receive repeated coaching and real-time feedback on their own leadership capabilities from their peers and the instructor. The course is structured around a set of readings. However, the key component is each student's own self-assessment. These self-assessments are done by the students in the first week of the semester. The areas for improvement that the students identify are then targeted in the weekly role plays that are customized for each student in the class. The goal of the class is for each student to increase his or her own leadership abilities through an ongoing cycle of practice, feedback and reflection.

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Pat Bentley. 15.974 Practical Leadership. Fall 2004. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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