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Program
The Assessment Center
As its name implies, the Assessment Center is all about discovering and understanding
the level of your executive skills and competencies as you enter the Smith EMBA
program. The Leadership Development and Executive Coaching Program is driven by
results. The Assessment Center focuses on robust and established assessments to
discover a baseline for measuring your progress as a leader during the program.
Conducted during your first week in the program, the Assessment Center is a day
where you take a variety of assessments to help identify capacities, such as your
personality type, your listening tendencies, your assertiveness in a group, and
your critical thinking skills. You’ll be asked to assume various leadership roles
to help determine how you would handle certain situations, all with the intention
of helping your executive coach begin to understand how you communicate, motivate,
and direct others. During some of these exercises, you’ll be videotaped so that
you and skilled observers can evaluate and reflect on your behavior across a spectrum
of executive competencies, and so that the coaching you receive is fact-based and
relevant to actual behavior in a group.
The objective of these assessments is to create your customized Leadership Development
Plan with actionable steps and measurable benchmarks to help you continuously evolve
as a leader.
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