Leadership Program

The leadership program I decided to examine is the Kellogg School of Management-Women's Senior Leadership Program. The program is designed for women who are a part of corporate America. The program is broken down into four three day session which is done over a 12 month period.

I think breaking up the session through a 12 month period is a great idea. You have a chance to reflect on what happened in the last session or in work atmosphere. As discussed in class, reflection is a key thing in leadership. Each of the four session are different which are "Session 1: Gathering Intelligence,Session 2: Creating a Context for Success, Session 3: Driving Results Session 4: Managing External Constituents". I think that is a good thing to have different topics already prepared. It helps it identifying and use transformation, skills, situation approaches etc.

Another thing discuss is giving feedback during the process. I think that feedback during any training is important to have. Listening to stories for any peers is an important part of learning. In my opinion, having people discuss a topic and not have peer interaction is boring and you do not learn as much if a group was interacting together.

The one thing i do not agree with is the price of the program. To take a part of the program it will cost someone $21,500. I think that is a lot of money for four sessions.

Another thing I would like to see change is the people teaching the course. The only people teaching the class is Kellogg faculty. I would like to see the Kellogg group bring in professionals from outside the group for a different perspective.

All in all i think this is a great program.