Leadership Core Series

As a new student in the Part-Time MBA Program, you will be immersed into some of the basic concepts you will use throughout your career and beyond as participants in Leadership Core Series (LCS). Held on a weekend during your first two quarters, you will participate in workshops, focusing on teamwork and leadership. These highly interactive sessions will prepare you for the work that lies ahead in future coursework and provide an opportunity to create spirit of group cooperation and teamwork. In addition, you will get to know your classmates well. The final segment of LCS is the class party at the end of the quarter, planned for new students, by new students.

The program is a foundational, or core, leadership experience as you begin to develop your own leadership skills. Through a series of short academic workshops, discussion and feedback sessions, and leadership self-assessment, you will be able to formulate a plan to continue to develop your own leadership qualities throughout your academic career at Kellogg. All new students must attend both of the LCS sessions.

Evening MBA Students: LCS sessions are held on Saturdays during the first half of the quarter.

Saturday MBA Students: LCS sessions are held on Sundays during the first half of the quarter.

LCS One
LCS One begins the very first quarter of your enrollment with a day of academic workshops held at Wieboldt Hall. Here you will be exposed to a few aspects of leadership qualities that will anchor your Kellogg experience. Lunch will be provided in between the sessions.

In High Performance Teamwork, you will learn about types of high-performing teams, team performance evaluation, the key challenges and threats to effective teamwork, and how to overcome these challenges.

Cross-Cultural Negotiations covers the fundamental concepts for planning negotiations, managing the negotiation process, and evaluating the quality of negotiation outcomes. This workshop includes a simulation exercise that highlights the concepts that underlie negotiation strategy with cultural implications.

About two weeks after your LCS One session, you will receive an email from us to get you started on a critical assessment tool— the 360 Degree Leadership Self-Assessment. The 360 Degree Leadership Self-Assessment tool queries you as well as your managers and work colleagues on several aspects of leadership and will ultimately provide concrete feedback for you to develop your own leadership plans. You will take this tool on your own time before the second LCS session the next quarter.

LCS Two
You will return the next quarter for LCS Two, which will focus on leadership and how it relates to you as a Kellogg student and as a professional. You will spend time understanding the key attributes of leadership and work on defining your own leadership goals.

Leadership— Defining Your Path will focus on leadership and defining one's own path, taught by a member of the Kellogg faculty, with a portion spent on how to interpret individual performance reports from the 360 Degree Leadership Self-Assessment. Using a matrix of coursework and programs, you can design your own action plans to help you continue your leadership growth and development.

Please remember that all part-time students must attend all of the LCS sessions.
Please contact Dean Krueger at m-krueger@kellogg.northwestern.edu with any questions.

The LCS schedule is as follows:

Evening MBA Program: Summer 2008
LCS One: High Performance Teams and Cross-Cultural Negotiations
Saturday, June 28, 2008
8:30 am - 4:00 pm
Wieboldt Hall

LCS Two : Leadership Development Planning
Friday, October 3, 2008
5:30 - 9:00 pm
Wieboldt Hall

Saturday MBA Program: Class of 2008
LCS One: High Performance Teams and Cross-Cultural Negotiations
Sunday, October 19
8:30 am - 4:00 pm
Wieboldt Hall

LCS Two : Leadership Development Planning
Sunday, TBA
Time TBA
Wieboldt Hall

Evening MBA Program: Fall 2008
LCS One: High Performance Teams and Cross-Cultural Negotiations
Saturday, September 27, 2008
8:30 am - 4:00 pm
Wieboldt Hall

LCS Two : Leadership Development Planning
Saturday, January 17
8:30 am - Noon or 12:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Wieboldt Hall