Tuck's Women in Business club and McKinsey focus on creating women leaders
Centered Leadership is a leadership model for women developed by management consulting firm and top MBA employer McKinsey & Company. Derived from McKinsey's recent research on successful women leaders, the model is the basis of a program that uses positive psychology to teach women about five interrelated dimensions of leadership: meaning, managing energy, positive framing, connecting, and engaging.
(Media-Newswire.com) - HANOVER, N.H.—As part of its ongoing mission to help women succeed as business leaders, Tuck's Women in Business club sponsored an on-campus workshop in November that explored an unconventional new approach to leadership.
Centered Leadership is a leadership model for women developed by management consulting firm and top MBA employer McKinsey & Company. Derived from McKinsey's recent research on successful women leaders, the model is the basis of a program that uses positive psychology to teach women about five interrelated dimensions of leadership: meaning, managing energy, positive framing, connecting, and engaging.
Each McKinsey workshop focuses on one of the five dimensions, enabling participants to explore them in depth. The event at Tuck spotlighted "managing energy" and allowed workshop attendees to identify both tasks that deplete them and tasks that restore them on a daily basis. Armed with that knowledge, women were able to create action plans to help maintain their energy throughout the day.
Shannon Gordon and Anne-Titia Bove—both of whom are Tuck alumnae and associates at McKinsey—traveled to Hanover to lead the seminar and meet with first- and second-year women.
"We were thrilled to be the first business school to partner with McKinsey on this workshop," says Jenny Farrelly, a second-year student. "One of the biggest success factors for us was that it was taught by Tuckies for Tuckies through the lens of the McKinsey research and insights."
The McKinsey workshop is one of many events WIB sponsors throughout the year. The group also has a mentoring program, which pairs first-year students with alumnae. For more information about WIB, visit the club's website.
Founded in 1900, Tuck is the first graduate school of management in the country and consistently ranks among the top business schools worldwide. Tuck remains distinctive among the world's great business schools by combining human scale with global reach, rigorous coursework with experiences requiring teamwork, and valued traditions with innovation.
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