Handbook

The capstone year of the MBA (Executive) focuses on themes of growth, innovation, disruption and transformation. As part of the capstone year, this course will help you understand innovation, growth and transformation on a personal and interpersonal level. It does so in two ways.

First, the course will help you develop an understanding of the human developmental processes, how that influences a leader’s capacity to deal with the cognitive and emotional complexities of organisational life, and how that has and will continue to shape some of your own experiences.

Second, the course will develop or deepen some critical and practical executive skills. We focus on a relatively narrow set of executive skills to allow for significant time for practice and reflection. It also requires seeking feedback from others as well as courageous and critical reflection on what drives our own unskilful reactive behaviours versus productive, creative responses as a human being and as a leader. This process will include, among others, an exploration of different mindfulness practices, feedback from colleagues and fellow students, and peer coaching/mentoring.

Executive Accelerator is a suite of three courses (2 units of credit each) that will run across three consecutive terms: Executive Accelerator Initial Term, Executive Accelerator Middle Term and Executive Accelerator Final Term. The three courses will give you opportunities to move beyond ‘knowing’ skills you have encountered in the Program to integrating them into your daily leadership practice (‘doing’), and weaving them into who you are as a leader (‘being’).

Key focus areas of Executive Accelerator Initial Term will be the relationship between adult development and executive leadership, building effective teams, peer coaching, process facilitation  and executive presence.