Fall Semester Closes with Leadership Seminar and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Tour
On December 4th, we concluded the Fall Seminar program and leadership development series with a reflective final session over lunch, during which HHHP Director and Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior Jack McCarthy led the Fellows through a review of the semester’s lessons and a series of related, reflective activities.
The centerpiece of this session was an exercise called Life Lines, in which the Fellows charted and then discussed with one another their professional, personal and family lives since the beginning of their careers, including projected their future goals for each of those three Life Lines.
Professor McCarthy also described in more detail the main leadership development activity of the spring term, a survey-based individual coaching session with our August Orientation Retreat Facilitator, Dr. Chris Roland. The Program will send a short survey to a list of about fifteen people that each Fellow believes can provide constructive, anonymous feedback on their leadership behaviors. The data will then be processed into a report, which will form the basis of each Fellow’s discussion with Dr. Roland.
Following this session, we enjoyed a brisk walk over to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum for a docent-led tour. The Gardner Museum houses an art collection of global importance. Taking it all in was a wonderful way to close our fall semester and look forward to the second half of our Fellowship Year together.