Personalized Leadership Assessment

Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves -- their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.

Peter F. Drucker,
Management Challenges for the 21st Century
(HarperCollins, 1999)

Learn Your Leadership Style

You want to learn and improve your business and leadership knowledge and skills. That is why you are pursuing an MBA. But where do you start? Do you know your own leadership style? Would your former boss, colleagues, subordinates, and customers agree with you? Would you like to know what they really thought?

In the Smeal MBA, you’ll use a 360 degree multi-rater feedback assessment to uncover and identify how others perceive your leadership style. You’ll learn your strengths and weaknesses from your peers, former supervisors and direct reports, as well as from your own self-evaluation. You’ll then work with an executive coach and your alumni mentors to develop a plan of action to build on strengths and improve weaknesses.

A Proven Method
The 360 degree multi-rater assessment and coaching process is proven to be effective. The Leadership and Organization Development Journal recently reported that 360 feedback paired with individual coaching can increase leadership effectiveness by up to 60 percent.

Two-thirds of Fortune 100 companies implement this type of leadership assessment into their management development and career progression programs. But 360 degree assessment often doesn't happen until executives are well into or even nearing the top of their career paths. Why wait? With the Smeal MBA, you have the opportunity to assess your leadership skills at the start of your career.

Benefits

In the 2004 Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive Survey, 73 percent of recruiters stated that the "leadership potential" of recruits is very important. Our program helps you discover and develop your own potential.

This process will provide you:

• better insight into your own strengths and weaknesses
• a view of how your self-evaluation compares to those you work with in a structured format
• personalized executive coaching to help you develop strategies for improvement
• a better understanding of your leadership style relative to your peer group
• more personalized learning within your courses