Students build protective devices for a team-building egg drop exercise. (Photograph courtesy of Amy MacMillan. Used with permission.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. John Carroll
MIT Course Number
15.316
As Taught In
Summer 2005
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course is an intensive one-week introduction to leadership, teams, and learning communities. The class meets daily for five days. The class serves as an introduction of concepts and uses a variety of experiential exercises to develop individual and team skills, as well as supportive relationships within the Leaders for Manufacturing class. As part of the focus on leadership, it discusses the idea of the "Universe Within", the images, thoughts, and experiences that are internal to all leaders.