Enriching Leadership Skills through Diversity of Experience

I remember it as if it were yesterday when my boss clapped me on the shoulders saying, “congratulations Martin, you are nominated for the IMPM!” Frankly, that was the first time I’d heard about the International Masters in Practicing Management (editor’s note: This is a certificate program aimed at experienced managers, and in which participants can also complete master’s degree requirements for a qualification from McGill University or Lancaster University). I was a bit confused as to why I should participate in a master’s program after already working in the industry for around 30 years and having a full diploma degree (in Germany, the equivalent of a master’s degree) in economics. So, still with a question mark in my face I said, “wow, that’s fantastic,” not knowing that this would be exactly the truth. During my career I went through a great deal of training, but the IMPM was the only one that created a fundamental and sustainable change.

... How to transfer understanding into personal learning and helping to hone my management and leadership skills in a better way, was a technique introduced in Lancaster and developed further in all of the five modules that are run by Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University in Montreal, in partnership with four other business schools around the world. Next to content-based learning, self-awareness and a deep understanding about my own strengths and deficits grew at the same time.

Read full article: Top MBA, August 11, 2016