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 amongst others an exploration of different mindfulness practices, feedback from colleagues and fellow students, and peer coaching/mentoring.

This course will run across three terms to provide the time needed to move beyond ‘knowing’ about these skills and integrating them into your daily leadership practice ('doing'), and even weave them into who you are as a leader ('being'). You will have to enrol each term in this course that you enrol in the other MBA Executive capstone courses, and different executive skills will be the focus in each term.