Globalization:
Special Topics

In Module 2, the leadership team will continue to develop internal and external leadership capacities, learning language, and building relationships within their communities, while also studying a series of special topics in globalization.

Participants will begin to observe and discuss global issues in ethical decision making, organizational behavior, and entrepreneurial mindsets. They will have the opportunity to practice the principles they acquire in the diverse and changing setting of their host culture. This module will also include intensive seminars, leadership team challenges and travel days, and individual research assignments.

• Language Course
• Myers-Briggs Personality Profile
• Leadership Team Core Reading/Writing Assignments and Presentations
• 2 Globalization Electives
• Biographical Elective
• Leadership Elective
• Individual Research/Writing Assignments and Presentations
• 6-Month Evaluation

Communication:
Intercultural and Professional

By Module 3, participants will have had ample opportunity to observe that communicating, particularly in a language other than one’s mother tongue, is challenging.

Module 3 deepens participants’ cultural understanding through teaching principles and theories of intercultural and professional communication. The participants choose a topic or issue specific to their context, to delve into it, and to present it in a professional setting. During this module, the leadership team leader will help facilitate the placement of each team member in professional internship settings within the host culture.

• Language Course
• 2 Intercultural Communication Electives
• 2 Professional Communication Electives
• Leadership Elective
• Ethnograph Paper
• Philosophy of Intercultural and Professional Communication
• 1-Year Evaluation

Diplomacy:
Negotiation and Mediation

During Module 4, participants become familiar with the fundamentals of diplomacy and will become comfortable with personal involvement in roles of negotiation and mediation. Throughout this module, leadership team leaders will facilitate regular role-playing the negotiation and mediation of several current issues in the global arena. Team members will have the opportunity to observe, and sometimes participate in, real situations in the professional setting in which leaders demonstrate the skills of confrontation, negotiation, and mediation.

Each participant will also be encouraged to use their developing diplomatic skills in their leadership team, internship, and community contexts.

• Language Course
• Leadership Team Core Reading/Writing Assignments and Presentations
• 3 Diplomacy Electives
• Biographical Elective
• Leadership Elective
• Creative Writing Project
• Negotiation and Mediation Assignment
• Leadership Team Travel Experience
• Philosophy of Diplomacy Paper
• Month-Out Internship Assignment

Strategic Leadership:
Mentoring and Coaching

Participants will spend Module 5 becoming familiar with and practicing such strategic leadership principles as mentoring and coaching, in both group and one-on-one settings.

In this module, participants study corporate learning strategies and career development. Each student will be given the opportunity to develop as a strategic leader and will be given new roles in decision making, allocating resources, communicating strategic vision, and managing people. They will strive to recognize and develop leadership qualities in their peers – among their leadership teams – and also among their internship colleagues and neighbors in their communities.

• Language Course
• Leadership Team Core Reading/Writing Assignments and Presentations
• 3 Strategic Leadership Electives
• Biographical Elective
• Leadership Elective
• Leadership Team Strategic Leadership Project
• Month-Out Internship Plan Paper
• Philosophy of Strategic Leadership Paper

Conclusion:
Philosophy of Intercultural Leadership

This three-month long module concludes the formal training process and allowing the leadership team to complete assigned tasks.

Each team member will understand how to set future goals. Each will develop and write a Philosophy of Intercultural Leadership, which assists the trainee in reflection on, and closure of, their leadership training experience. The leadership team will have a three-day debrief to conclude the training time together.

Often, the project, business, or organization created by the leadership team is not finished in the two-year period of the PILOT Program. In these cases, the leadership team will need to evaluate its work and decide upon what is needed, in order to complete the task or to leave the project functioning under the leadership of others.

Sometimes, PILOT alumni return after a few months in their home countries to continue working and developing their teams’ project. Sometimes, we place a second PILOT Program in the same location to continue developing the first team’s project.

• Language Course
• Biographical Elective
• Leadership Elective
• Month-Out Internship Program
• Month-Out Internship Reflection Paper
• PILOT Program Evaluation Paper
• Philosophy of Intercultural Leadership Paper