Leadership Development at Owen
Vanderbilt’s Leadership Development Program (LDP) gives you ample practice as both an individual leader and a team member. LDP is an integral part of the Vanderbilt MMHC experience. Designed to help students better understand themselves as leaders, the program focuses on developing self-awareness, strengthening leadership capabilities, and translating insight into action.
Our desire is to help you better lead people and organizations in the complex and ever changing healthcare environment. Assess your personal leadership style, identify your strengths and challenges, and gain new insights through executive coaching. Take what you learn and apply them to better manage and motivate teams, influence stakeholders, and execute change so that you can accelerate advancement in your career and lead more effectively in your organization. We offer you access to the best-in class diagnostic tools and personalized support for you to learn, practice, modify, and grow your leadership skills.
Participation in leadership development activities is flexible. Students can engage with coaching, reflection, and programming in ways that align with their individual goals and schedules.
How It Works
Access leadership resources used by Fortune 500 CEOs. Start by assessing your personal leadership style. You will engage with the Hogan Leadership Assessment to help you uncover your strengths, improvement areas, and more importantly how you might be perceived by others. What you do as a leader happens in context. Understanding contexts and navigating through, or even shaping, those contexts is critical to you successfully leading your teams and organization.
You will be paired with an executive coach who will help you interpret your assessment data to best understand and leverage your strengths as well as manage your potential “derailers”–areas for improvement–that can undermine your success as a manager and leader. Together, you and your executive coach will create your personalized leadership action plan that will help you achieve your leadership and career goals in multiple contexts.
Put your personalized leadership action plan to work immediately in the Capstone Project and on the job.
During the program, you will have opportunities to try new strategies and approaches on the job and in class. Use these opportunities to practice. The time with your executive coach allows you to reflect and gain insight as you continue expanding and improving your leadership capabilities.
The Capstone Project Team will be a great opportunity to learn how you contribute to team productivity and team success. Your project team will have focused resources that help you and your team optimize its interactions and operations.
Reflect to cement and continue your growth as a leader.
By the end of the Master of Management in Health Care program, you will have gained new leadership insights and skills. Wrap up the program by reflecting on your leadership learning. Share your observations and insight with those who can support you in your continued journey to effectively influence and motivate others. Our hope is that your LDP experience will instill a discipline for self-reflection and habits of development which enable you to broaden your influence and increase the scope of your responsibilities within your organization.
What to Expect
Meet with your individual executive coach five times starting in the fall semester and into the beginning of the spring semester. Leverage assessment data as well as your personal, on-the-job experiences as sources of lessons that can be applied and guide you as you move forward in the program and in your career.
Your Capstone Project Team will give you opportunities to expand what you have learned as you define your team's vision for project success, establish agreements to be the most effective and engaged collegial team, and take time to reflect to be more effective as your team works toward completing their project.
42
The number of professional executive coaches we hire and work with each year as part of our Leadership Development Program for students and alumni.