Getting Wet in the Wild – T&M-DDP Leadership Training Camp
Every summer, Dual Degree Program in Technology and Management (T&M-DDP) holds leadership training camp for all new students to unleash and polish their leadership potential. This year in August, over 50 new Year 1 and Year 2 T&M-DDP students admitted respectively from program-based and school-based admissions joined the leadership training camp at Sai Wan, Sai Kung.
Leadership training is not only about training up a leader, but also learning how to make contribution to a team. A team cannot be effective if all teammates are leaders without cooperative team members. Communication, negotiation and listening skills are essential to a team’s success.
This leadership training camp focuses on building up ability to give, receive and critically assess constructive feedback and utilize feedback to build higher performing groups. Students tried to lead and complete tasks that require not strength, but strategy and effective group dynamics in order to prevail. Throughout the problem-solving process, students learnt to access risk, make judgement and decision and also critical thinking.
Getting comfortable with discomfort is crucial to success. Overcoming challenges like sea kayaking, canyoning, canyon challenge, surfing, camp craft etc. brought the students out of their comfort zones and rewarded them with valuable experience in building self-confidence and greater independence as well as improving leadership qualities.
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About The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) (www.ust.hk) is a world-class research university that focuses on science, technology and business as well as humanities and social science. HKUST offers an international campus, and a holistic and interdisciplinary pedagogy to nurture well-rounded graduates with global vision, a strong entrepreneurial spirit and innovative thinking. HKUST attained the highest proportion of internationally excellent research work in the Research Assessment Exercise 2014 of Hong Kong’s University Grants Committee, and is ranked as the world’s best young university in Times Higher Education’s Young University Rankings 2019. Its graduates were ranked 16th worldwide and top in Greater China in Global University Employability Survey 2018.
