360° Leadership Programme

• The 360° Leadership Programme is a development programme designed for current students in their first or second year of study at The University of Auckland who want to grow their leadership capabilities and apply what they learn in a real world context.
• The theme of the programme is “Understanding and developing your leadership identity”. As a future leader, you'll be enabled to more effectively understand and engage with complexity and difference of perspective, while refining your leadership in the University community.
• Over the course of seven months, you'll complete five workshops, each with fresh ideas on the challenges of leadership and the chance to apply new ways of thinking and working.
• The University is looking for its student leaders to commit to getting involved with the various clubs on campus and helping those clubs go from strength to strength.
• We are also looking to create a stronger link between our international students and students from New Zealand. Through a broadening of perspectives on leadership and the opportunity to work cross-culturally, we are looking to develop leaders who will engage confidently with the world.
• We want applicants who are actively involved in extra-curricular activities (either in clubs, societies and associations on campus), or who volunteer their time at the University or in the community. It is in these activities that you’ll be testing out your leadership skills, during and after the programme.
• The 360° Leadership Programme is delivered by facilitators from the New Zealand Leadership Institute, who run a range of leadership courses, drawing on the experiences of leaders from within the University and across the public and private sectors.

• To facilitate students’ contribution to creating a vibrant, engaging and exciting University environment.
• To support and develop leadership in the students who are actively contributing to the University community.
• To support students in the development of a more globally connected leadership.
• To facilitate stronger leadership relationships and learning between international and New Zealand students.

"Understanding and developing your leadership identity"

This theme is underpinned by a series of questions that you will explore throughout the programme:

• Who am I? Who are we?
  What values, experiences and views do I bring?
  As a leadership group, how are we going to connect and create stronger leadership relationships?
• Where am I?
  What’s the context for my leadership? What’s my sense of place?
• Why?
  What’s my leadership for?

This identity and place can be thought about in relation to the numerous contexts:

• As a student
• Within clubs and associations
• Within the wider University community
• In the community
• As a citizen of the world

In investigating the ways in which place informs your leadership identity, you will become more aware of your own boundaries and assumptions. You will become more adept at challenging your ‘truths’. In doing so, you will construct different options for how you believe that you and others can enact leadership within these contexts.

This theme provides a foundation on which to construct a different set of leadership practices, enabling you to more effectively understand and engage with complexity and difference of perspective. There will also be significant opportunities to construct experiences that investigate leadership in different ‘places’ and interactions with others who can also describe how identity and place have influenced their leadership.

The programme is open to first and second year undergraduate students.

As an applicant, you need to address the following criteria which will be considered by the selection panel:

1. Leadership context — you should be able to tell us your leadership context (the place that you are able to actively use and apply your learning during the programme), and articulate your ongoing commitment to it.
2. Readiness and openness to learning and growing — you must demonstrate that you are:
   • Open to challenge.
   • Willing to be honest and open.
   • Willing to actively bring your challenges and stories into the programme.
   • Motivated to test new ideas and share those experiments.
3. Desire to make an impact — you should be able to articulate some ideas around your aspirations, the change you wish to see, and the way you see leadership helping you to make this impact.
4. Self-management — you should be able to balance your current studies and any other commitments with this programme.

The cost to cover workshops, food and accommodation is $300 per person, however the University of Auckland is able to offer scholarships to successful applicants.

Applications for the 2012 programme have closed. Continue to watch this space for information on future programmes.