MLDP is a program offered by the Rockefeller Center here at Dartmouth College. 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 classes.
These weekly sessions, led by guest speakers, cover targeted capacities related to leadership theory; differences between management and leadership; public speaking and communication; persuasive writing; problem solving, decision making and negotiation; analytical and critical thinking; facilitation; program management; and business etiquette. Common themes of global leadership, cultural competence, ethics, and public policy 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.
Students who successfully complete the MLDP requirements may assist guest speakers with future sessions, reinforcing an interactive, peer-to-peer approach to learning. Participants will come away with new and improved management skills, and the ability to better apply these management skills to internships and projects. Participation
