Leadership and Professional Development Opportunities

Stanford’s graduate students will be leaders in educational, governmental, business, community, and social organizations throughout their lives. This will require more than expertise in your particular field. You will need skills and abilities in leadership, communications, and management.

Stanford offers many ways to learn and practice important skills. Programs offered by the VPGE office are described here. In addition, programs and services are offered through several other offices and programs on the Stanford campus (see Other Stanford Opportunities).

Resources for developing both oral and written communication skills are also available.

VPGE will be sponsoring the following programs during 2009-10:

   LEADERSHIP DINNERS

An opportunity for small groups to have dinner with recognized leaders. The next dinner this year will be with
   Emmett Carson, Founding CEO and President,
      Silicon Valley Community Foundation
   November 3, 2009 from 5 - 8 p.m. at the Faculty Club.
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   INTELLECTUAL LEADERSHIP: Creating a Research Agenda

These workshops, each in two sessions, will help you frame and articulate your future research agenda. Workshops will be offered for different disciplinary/thematic clusters. This Fall Quarter, workshops will be offered for:
   - Humanities (October 14 and 21, from 4 - 6 p.m.)
   - Gender (November 3 and 11, from noon - 2 p.m.)
   - Social Science (November 10 and 19, from 4 - 6 p.m.)
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   12@12

A program of lunchtime conversations, starting in Winter Quarter 2010. Check back soon for more information.

   MANAGEMENT MATTERS WORKSHOPS

A series of workshops designed to provide skills-based management techniques. Winter 2010 includes three integrated sessions focused on successfully managing people.
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   COMMUNICATION MATTERS WORKSHOPS

In partnership with the Stanford Center for Teaching and Learning, these Spring 2010 workshops focue on communication skills, including some that are not typical of graduate school training but which are essential for leaders in any environment including, but not limited to, negotiation and persuasion.
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Recent leadership programs have included Leadership from the Inside Out, a series of three morning workshops offered in August 2009, and On Leadership: A Series of Conversations, featuring talks by recognized leaders, including Stanford University President John Hennessy among others (2008-09).

 

 

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