Rockefeller Leadership Fellows
Overview of all Leadership Programs offered by the Rockefeller Center
The Rockefeller Center continues to build on its commitment to educate, inspire, and train future public policy leaders. In Fall 2009, we initiated an exciting new leadership opportunity, the Management and Leadership Development Program (MLDP), specifically aimed at sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
MLDP focuses on management and leadership principles common to corporate, public, and not-for-profit sectors, enhancing participants' knowledge, experience, and competency through weekly evening sessions.
These weekly sessions, led by guest speakers, cover targeted capacities related to leadership theory, including public speaking and communication, professional writing, problem solving, decision making and negotiation, analytical and critical thinking, group facilitation, cultural competency in a globalized world, and strategic planning. Common themes to promote effective leadership in civil society by enhancing participants' communication skills, ability to inspire and empower members within an organization, and ability to build effective working relationships with business partners and colleagues unite the sessions.
Each session employs a variety of techniques, including lectures, small group work, interactive role-plays, experiential learning, self-reflection, and assessment. Sessions are designed to facilitate connections with students' individual management goals and aspirations.
Participants will come away with new and improved management and leadership skills, and the ability to better apply these skills to roles within campus organizations, internships, projects, and in their careers in "life after Dartmouth". Participation in MLDP offers:
Students who successfully complete MLDP are eligible to apply to be a student assistant or student discussion leader at the Rockefeller Center, and strengthen their applications for internship or mini-grant funding through the Rockefeller Center. Students with a higher-level of participation in MLDP as determined by the program requirements may complete "with distinction". This distinction will be noted if applying to become a Rockefeller Leadership Fellow.
- Please click here to view the Description of Sessions & Speaker Bios.
- Please visit the Rockefeller Center blog to read student summaries and reflections of past sessions.
We are now accepting applications for the 2012-13 academic year. Please visit our online application page.
-Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors
-Applications will be accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis. Each term, up to sixty students will be invited to participate in the program.
-Students can apply for any term at any time during the academic year, but must note the deadlines for the end of each application cycle.
-Students are encouraged to apply with fellow team members from athletics, campus organizations, Greek life, and/or any other organization. By participating in MLDP concurrently, the application of leadership and management concepts may better ensure that the skills learned from MLDP will transfer to students' everyday activities and organizations.
-Program sessions take place every Tuesday from 5:45-7:30 PM. Dinner will be provided. A complete schedule, including optional workshops, is available upon request and can also be found on Blackboard.
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-Students should expect to prepare for the sessions as if they were a regular class and participate in discussion and activities during each session. A group project and minimal writing assignments are also part of the program. Students should consider the time commitment when applying for MLDP. Most sessions are 1.5 hours long.
-Participants will develop skills to become an effective manager or leader by participating in a comprehensive study of leadership and developing transferable skills. These skills may be applied immediately and universally within settings in- or out- of the classroom, on or off-campus.
-Completion of MLDP is a prerequisite for student assistant and discussion leader positions at the Rockefeller Center.
-Completion of MLDP will strengthen students applications for internship funding through the Rockefeller Center.
-Completion of MLDP will allow students to apply for mini-grants to help fund certain events or activities you would like to plan on campus.
-The certification can be listed on your resume as a professional skills development program.
