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Emerging Leaders to watch
You’ve already heard from several of the participants in the 2014 Emerging Leaders Institute: Jordan Schermerhorn shared her experience with the powerful Human Patterns self-assessment, Emily Roberts recounted the story behind her team’s development of the Think Beyond Internships website, and Aaron Towers explained the value he found in the ELI experience. Learn more about our first graduating class of Emerging Leaders through their profiles, and watch for their impact in the weeks and months to come. We expect great things.
No time to be an Emerging Leader?
How was I going to convince my mentor that spending 25+ hours on my professional development would be a good idea–especially considering that it would take away from time in the lab? The email from Graduate Student Affairs promised that the opportunity would “develop participants’ leadership, professional adaptability, communication, self-awareness, and interdisciplinary teamwork skills, preparing them to become successful employees after graduation.” But how could I sell that to my mentor, who was likely more concerned about my success prior to graduation? (more…)
Who leads a group of emerging leaders? Reflecting on the Emerging Leaders Institute group project
Melissa Bostrom sold me on applying to the Emerging Leaders Institute (ELI) with one word: “deliverable.” The program included many attractive characteristics: leadership training, self-assessments, and coaching. However, from the beginning I was focused on the group project – not simply as an exercise in working with others but to develop a concrete product that I can reference in future interviews as a significant accomplishment from those six weeks.
In the end, I got both – a learning experience in working with a team and a product that exists in the real world. (more…)
Slowing it down at the Emerging Leaders Institute
When I first came to Duke last fall, my incoming master’s class bonded by comparing Myers-Briggs personality types: not the real ones, of course, but instead the ones that match your personality type to a Harry Potter character or a varietal of wine. Last week at the Emerging Leaders Institute, I learned that was child’s play when we received our Human Patterns Reports. (more…)
