Features and outcomes

Program overview

Leadership training helps to unlock your potential – enhancing your ability to make an impact on your peers and on the world. The Ancora Imparo program is a unique opportunity available only to first year Monash University students.

Participants get to meet and hear from some of the nation’s most inspired leaders, with backgrounds ranging from politics to business, arts and the law.

Students selected for the program participate in a fully-funded three-day residential workshop involving students, senior university staff and key speakers drawn from across Australia. This is followed by eight evening forums held on Tuesday nights, where you will hear outstanding speakers tackle a range of contemporary leadership issues. Combined with small group presentations on selected topics, you will have the opportunity to debate, discuss, challenge, enlist and consider a range of stimulating topics.

As a member of this unique program, you will have the opportunity to engage in a number of exclusive events open only to Senior Monash Staff, including attending leadership summits, leadership lunches and addressing staff forums.

In recognition of your success in being awarded a position in the program, there is a small stipend and best of all no exams or assignments to complete.

Program Structure

1. Three-day Residential in February
   
   Some of the key themes to be examined in the Program include:
   
   
   • What is leadership?
   • Theoretical, philosophical and conceptual foundations of leadership
   • Values, ethics and sensitivity
   • Problem solving
   • Assumptions about leadership
   • Challenges of leadership – what happens in practice?
   
   Students will stay in a location off-campus prior to first semestergetting to know each other and understanding the concepts associated with leadership.
   
   
2. Eight Evening Seminars spread over the two University semesters
   
   Four of the evening seminars will involve distinguished speakers from a range of backgrounds presenting on their leadership experiences.
   
   The remaining four evening seminars will involve students presenting in Syndicate Groups on a topic of their choice to the rest of the group.
   
   
3. Graduation Ceremony
   
   Students finish the Program by attending a Graduation Ceremony attended by the Vice-Chancellor and close family and friends of the participants.

Program goals

The Ancora Imparo Program offers a range of opportunities and activities that will:

• draw on and foster your sense of idealism
• increase your self-understanding
• affirm and strengthen your confidence in your existing abilities
• foster an ethic of service
• enhance your ability to effect positive social change
• provide you with an opportunity to work with other passionate and committed peers
• facilitate your learning from past and present leaders.

Program outcomes

Following completion of the Ancora Imparo Program, you will:

• have significantly broadened your personal horizons
• possess an enhanced understanding of leadership principles within an ethical framework

be equipped and willing to exercise leadership.