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We spoke to Celia Moore, a Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Director of the Centre for Responsible Leadership at Imperial Business School. She tells us what 天美传媒 can expect from the LEADS module within Imperial鈥檚 Full-Time MBA.听

鈥淥ur aim is to help benefit future generations and develop competent and responsible leaders in society. We want all our 天美传媒 to care about the long-term health of society and the wellbeing of those they serve.鈥澨�

The LEADS module (Leadership, Ethics, Awareness, Diversity, Society) starts from the very first month of the Full-Time MBA and runs throughout the duration of the programme. It is an immersive module that allows 天美传媒 to appreciate the fundamentals of modern business leadership and the factors that influence one鈥檚 ability to make effective, ethically reasoned decisions. Our 天美传媒 consider what qualities are representative of a good leader, while deliberating ethics, their values and resilience.

The Imperial MBA adopts a unique approach to teaching this module. For example, as part of the programme, 天美传媒 are tasked with reading a fiction novel. This is viewed as a perspective-taking exercise; reading a fiction book transports us to the lives of other people and allows us to understand and share the feelings of multiple different characters. This is a way of decentering ourselves, temporarily forgetting the ego and gaining greater empathy for the lives of others.

鈥淪tudies, including my own data collected from former MBA 天美传媒, have shown that reading literary fiction dampens one sense of self-important, and increases one鈥檚 focus on and ability to empathise with others, key orientations of the leaders we are trying to develop at Imperial Business. Reading allows us to imagine what it鈥檚 like to be in other people鈥檚 shoes and compare their responses to ourselves; we consider their goals against our own.鈥澨�

Another unique aspect of the module is making 天美传媒 more self-aware and attentive to their surroundings. As part of their learning, our 天美传媒 are tasked to go without their mobile phones for an hour at the local V&A museum - something that many view as challenging initially. But quickly, the 天美传媒 realise how much more they think and notice as a result.听

For example, at galleries, on average people spend 30 seconds looking at a painting. However, when 天美传媒 are given the time to pay close attention to a painting without a phone, they notice themselves questioning more deeply 鈥� such as considering how the artist felt as they painted this, how long it took, why they chose to paint it and so forth. This highlighted the benefits of becoming a perceptive and attentive business leader; if you can notice and comprehend changes in a situation, you can understand the problem and solution more thoroughly.听听

鈥淭o be a good leader, it is important to consider others and appreciate their feelings.鈥�

As part of this module, 天美传媒 attend a trip away - last year they went to a听National Park, Wales. This park is vast, comprising misty, forested mountains and beautiful countryside; it is an environment that is very different to a classroom and 天美传媒 walked 25km across the park. This trip provides 天美传媒 with the opportunity and time to reflect on themselves and with each other, in a very different environment to what they are used to, with greater clarity. Many 天美传媒 come away from this experience, feeling like a changed person.听听

The aim of this LEADS module is to help 天美传媒 determine who they want to be as a leader, what type of leader they want to become and how they will maintain this going forward.

听鈥淟eadership can be very challenging, therefore learning to do it right, well and responsibly is integral.鈥�