SEED Leadership Program

The SEED Leadership Program incorporates the MasonLeads assumptions , values, and competencies, while specifically highlighting four (4) Guiding Principles and four (4) Learning Stages, which are woven throughout the program.

What you’ll learn about:

Guiding Principles The SEED Leadership Program is focused around four guiding priciples which can help students to develop as effective, ethical leaders.

 Leaders should realize that we all are interdependent and help others in ways that are mutually beneficial

 Leaders should seek to do what is right, act morally and serve the common good

Leaders should be deeply involved and fully participate in their communities, work and lives

Leaders should be inclusive, globally competent and realize that a diverse group can be a more effective group

How you’ll learn: 

Learning Stages: Learning is a lifelong process and, as listed in the Mason Leads Leadership Assumptions: “Although some individuals may appear to be born leaders, we each can learn and develop leadership skills. We may express leadership differently, yet every person in the university community is capable of leadership development”.

There are a variety of ways to learn and we believe that it is essential to address as many different ways of learning as possible.  Some may know a great deal about leadership theory, but not be able to work effectively in a group. Others may work well in groups, but lack an understanding of the leadership theories, which could help them to be even more effective.  SEED’s experiential learning stages are based on educational theorist David A. Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory and focus on integrating different types of learning.

Leaders learn from personally encountering something

Leaders learn from observing, considering thoughtfully and finding meaning

Leaders learn from gaining an intellectual understanding of principles

Leaders learn from putting ideas into effect and applying knowledge to various circumstances