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We Empower Learners and Leaders Program (WELL)

Our We Empower Learners and Leaders (WELL) program delivers life-changing skills that empower you to lead with the confidence that deep knowledge and experience bring. You’ll explore leadership topics, learn how to ask critical questions, and develop independent thought.

The program is found only at ob体育试玩 and is a pillar of success for graduates of our undergraduate programs. WELL gives you the opportunity to learn and practice top leadership skills and define your leadership style.

Through a series of three courses, you’ll embody characteristics of strong leadership and set the example of excellence as someone who works to:

• Advance others in their careers
• Advance your own position
• Work collaboratively
• Be creative
• Exemplify empathy

Learn Life-Changing Leadership Skills

In three courses throughout your degree program, you’ll become the professional others naturally gravitate toward for answers and solutions. The program supports self-discovery and teaches you how to articulate and achieve your goals successfully. By the end of the WELL courses, you can:

• Evaluate and develop your leadership skills while learning about the global environment of  leadership
• Manage your career effectively to achieve your professional and leadership goals
• Demonstrate your leadership skills by creating and implementing a successful social action project

Course Spotlight on WELL 440: Leadership in Practice

In this final class of your WELL program, you’ll complete a four-week, 25-hour virtual work-based project through our partner Riipen. Riipen is a virtual platform that connects our students to international employers so they can complete real-world projects.

Your project will be matched as closely as possible to your major and overall interests. You’ll be mentored and guided throughout the project by your contact at the sponsor company to get real-world feedback and experience.

While you’re working on the project, you’ll complete a shared curriculum with the rest of the class to apply what you’re learning to the project. Topics include:

• Virtual leadership
• Team dynamics
• Boundary setting
• Virtual networking
• Giving and receiving feedback
• Change leadership

WELL Program Outcomes

Within the WELL program, you’ll come to understand who you are as a leader and how to brand and advocate or yourself. You’ll be able to demonstrate your leadership strengths through real-life examples that get you noticed at work.

By the end of the program you’ll be able to:

• Create actionable career and academic plans
• Develop a supportive cohort of peers at the university through a shared academic experience
• Reflect on what types of support you need and identify support resources at the university
• Strategize on ways to become part of the university community
• Successfully navigate the challenges of school and work with success skills such as emotional intelligence, grit/persistence, wellness, mindfulness, “failing well,” and knowledge of impostor syndrome
• Leave with a polished resume, professional e-portfolio, and a powerful elevator pitch
• Understand and work toward diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) concepts and goals with a solid foundation in the understanding of DEIB issues that is important in a 21st-century workplace
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