Leadership Tools and Teams: A Product Development Lab
An MIT Sloan School of Management course built around a single project: designing a leadership development tool that other Sloan students will actually use. Options include a coaching guide for second-year pilots, a leadership workbook for MBA students entering summer internships, an assessment for club presidents, or a networking workshop, and each project must tie back to the leadership model taught at Sloan. Materials on MIT OpenCourseWare include the syllabus, assignment specifications, and project guidelines that walk through scoping, developing, and testing a usable tool rather than writing a paper about leadership theory. The course is structured as a lab, with peer feedback and iteration built into the process of turning a concept into a finished product. It suits students who want practice applying leadership frameworks to a concrete deliverable rather than studying them in the abstract. Free to access through MIT OpenCourseWare, with no certificate offered.