A New Kind of Web Program
Boston Roundtable's Emerging Leaders program is a multi-certificate series of web courses designed to give students an understanding of the tenets of leadership in the context of politics, business, and international relations. Through web modules taught by faculty at prestigious universities and institutions, the next generation of leaders will receive lessons on all the factors that inform leadership, from management to negotiation, to analytics, to understanding of global systems.
Emerging Leaders was initially planned as a 2-week in-person program that would bring together students from the United States and China to analyze the international relations of their countries in the backdrop of the 2020 presidential election. In response to COVID-19's impact domestically and across the globe, the program was reconfigured into a multi-module online program that will cover the same topics in a more in-depth format. Other guests include American politicians, Chinese guest lecturers, and much more! |
The Emerging Leaders Advantage
All Emerging Leaders courses are taught by faculty at top schools in the US and China, giving high school students a taste of college-level curriculum as well as globally-minded skills designed to function in a variety of contexts.
Successful participants of a module receive a certificate of completion at the conclusion of the course. Although the course is treated similarly to a "Pass/Fail" course, students also receive a privately-disclosed number grade reflecting their performance in the class. Letters of recommendation are based on class performance and may be requested from the instructor, but are not guaranteed. Students seeking letters of recommendation are encouraged to exhibit strong participation in class and on assignments in order to provide the instructor with examples by which to base the letter. |
Module One: Negotiations For Leaders (July 28-August 28)
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Negotiations For Leaders is our leadoff module with future modules of Emerging Leaders set to be announced leading into the summer of 2020. Future concentrations will include global economics, international relations, and more!
Negotiations For Leaders will highlight the components of an effective negotiation and teach young leaders, to analyze their own behavior in negotiations. As much as the hope of this course is to help participants become more effective in their personal lives, the primary objective is to ensure that participants feel increasingly confident in using negotiation in the professional context – to influence others, solve problems, resolve conflicts, align key parties, and generally get things done in their community and the world. This course is built around a series of negotiation exercises and reviews one might encounter in an MBA program, but are applicable in a variety of fields. Due to the rigor of the assignments, students will be expected to be fully prepared for exercises prior to class and to participate in the reviews. Students will also be evaluated via journal entries, forum participation, and a final essay. |
Module Two: Cultural Intelligence (July 28 - August 28)
Our second module focuses on Cultural Intelligence skills necessary for a variety of contexts. Leading in today’s organizations, whether business or otherwise, requires expertise in multiple dimensions of various national, ethnic, and organizational cultures. Rather than trying to master all the details of each and every culture, this course will present the meta-cultural approach of “Cultural Intelligence Quotient” (CQ), giving a leader a framework to function effectively in any cross-cultural setting.
The dimensions involved show substantive differences among many cultures that are conventionally considered similar, then moves big picture to see how these cultures interact. Multi-disciplinary academic research across 30 countries and various industries confirms that success in cross-cultural management can be measured, predicted, and learned, building a repertoire of skills that pertain to any cross-cultural situation. The course also employs elements of psychology and examines CQ’s relation to the Big Five model of personality traits. |
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Our Technology:
WeChat is the premier social media tool used all across China, as well as other parts of the world. Our web courses use WeChat as a supplemental tool where students have easy access to educators for fast questions such as homework or vocabulary assistance. Groups become inactive at the end of the course.
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