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Leading on the EDGE
Friday, August 28th, 2009
by Aaron Wilder ‘08, Development Fellow
In order to meet the needs of organizations recruiting graduate students today, Thunderbird School of Global Management provides its emerging leaders with a number of pertinent skills for today’s rapidly changing post-graduate career landscape. These skills include the ability to build diverse teams, communicate, make decisions, mentor, network, and set goals all in cross-cultural settings. In effect, the next generation of world leaders must be global change catalysts. Thunderbird’s Leadership Education & Development for Greater Effectiveness (Leadership EDGE) program seeks to meet this need by enabling students to become more effective horizontal managers and global team leaders through individual, interpersonal, and experiential leadership education activities that complement what is learned in the classroom.
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