Features and outcomes

Program overview

The Program involves theoretical and case study components, discussions, debates and seminars, as well as the study of past and present models and contexts of leadership.

Many of the seminars will be led by distinguished Australian leaders and you will have the opportunity to meet a range of high profile community leaders.

Program features

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 participate in a three-day residential component prior to first semester and attend monthly seminars. The Program will take place over 12 months during the students' second year of study at Monash, it is not a lecture series and involves no formal assessment.

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.