MBA-FPX5002 opens the MBA program with a foundational leadership course, combining leadership theory with genuine self-assessment of the student's own leadership strengths and development areas.
Foundational leadership theory for MBA students
MBA-FPX5002 surveys core leadership theories — situational, transformational, servant leadership — giving incoming MBA students the shared theoretical vocabulary the rest of the program builds on.
Personal leadership self-assessment
The course requires genuine self-assessment using validated leadership assessment tools, asking students to honestly identify their own leadership strengths and development areas as a foundation for growth throughout the MBA program, not just an academic exercise.
Key topics in MBA-FPX5002
- Situational, transformational, and servant leadership theory
- Validated leadership self-assessment tools
- Identifying personal leadership strengths and development areas
- Building a personal leadership development plan
- 360-degree feedback and its role in leadership self-awareness
- Connecting leadership self-assessment to career goals
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Worked example: translating self-assessment into a development plan
- Self-assessment finding: A student's assessment reveals strong strategic thinking but a development area in delegation, tending toward doing tasks personally rather than empowering others
- Development plan: Specific, actionable steps — deliberately delegating one significant project this quarter and reflecting on the outcome
- Lesson: Genuine leadership development requires translating an honest self-assessment into specific, actionable behavior change, not just intellectual awareness of a growth area
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Frequently asked questions
Leadership skill and self-awareness underpin how effectively an MBA graduate will apply every subsequent functional skill they learn — a technically excellent strategic analysis or financial model produces little organizational value if the person can't lead others to act on it, and genuine leadership development requires honest self-awareness as its starting point. MBA-FPX5002 begins with this foundation because the program is designed to develop not just technical business knowledge but the leadership capacity to apply that knowledge effectively within real organizations, and starting with genuine self-assessment establishes each student's personal starting point for the leadership growth the rest of the program is designed to support.
Leadership theory can be learned and recited without producing any genuine change in how a person actually leads, but development requires understanding one's own specific patterns, strengths, and blind spots and deliberately working to address them — this is why MBA-FPX5002 pairs theoretical content with genuine self-assessment tools, since a student who intellectually understands transformational leadership theory but has no honest awareness of their own tendency toward, for example, avoiding delegation, is unlikely to actually change that specific behavior pattern. Genuine, honest self-assessment (sometimes uncomfortable, since it can reveal genuine growth areas) is what connects abstract leadership theory to concrete, personally relevant development goals a student can actually act on throughout their MBA program and career.