Personal Leadership Development Programme (PLDP) - MBA Programme

Enhancing Your Career Success

The Personal Leadership Development Programme (PLDP) is designed to provide you with a new standard of excellence in personal and interpersonal awareness, as well as communication effectiveness. It introduces a set of tools and experiences throughout the MBA programme that will give you opportunities to enhance your short-term and long-term career success.

PLDP Curriculum

The programme runs alongside the course of study. It starts before the student arrives on campus and continues throughout the MBA programme. It consists of personal and interpersonal assessment tools, communication awareness, leadership-skills development, as well as professional and peer-based feedback on existing experiential learning opportunities, such as simulations, role plays and group exercises. Grounded in adult learning theory, it follows the Learning Cycle of engaging in, reflecting on, concluding and planning for an experience.



Personal and Professional Identity Narrative (PPIN)
	One-to-One Coaching (Optional)

	Self-Directed Developmental Exercises

Psychometrics: 360, personality tests	Professional Coaching (Face-to-Face, Virtual Group and Individual Coaching)		Communications Mini-Course
		Intergroup Dialogue Sessions Communications Mini-Course Classroom Sessions

	Integration with existing course content, cases and exercises
	Integration across Career Development Centre sessions and coaching

PLDP Journey

Personalised Coaching

Even before the MBA programme starts, the PLDP Team connects with you to kickstart your PLDP journey. You will be offered one-on-one coaching sessions which are guided by your aspirations, and assessments of your strengths and weaknesses.

Interpersonal Skill Development

The PLDP provides you with a number of practice and reflection opportunities to better understand and develop interpersonal skills. In addition to a personal coach, you are offered professional group coaching to learn practical team management skills that can be utilised after graduation.

Communication Proficiency

The PLDP creates a fully integrated series of activities for you to progressively build communication effectiveness skills during your time on the MBA programme. Coaches will challenge your working norms and guide you in understanding the underlying triggers of your behavioural patterns.

Personalised Coaching

Interpersonal Skill Development

Communication Proficiency

The PLDP also runs in parallel with career coaching provided by INSEAD’s Career Development Centre (CDC). The career coaching helps you articulate your career goals based on your value system and desires whereas the PLDP coaching gives you an opportunity to reflect on and explore your effectiveness in leading your own development and leading others. These complimentary approaches at times cover similar ground while working towards distinct aspects of helping you to be the best and most effective version of yourself.

“The PLDP coach helped us challenge our working norms in the team, express our feelings and think how we can make our study group a safe environment to learn and speak up.”

Violeta Argyropoulou
MBA ‘18D

“The PLDP helped me to better understand myself and shed light on some of my unconscious "unknown knowns", underlying triggers of my behavioral patterns. With the support of my coach, I could define a future path towards my personal development.”

Balázs Zoletnik
MBA ‘18J

"When you advance in your career, soft skills become more important than hard skills, and during PLDP you get the chance of reflecting on yourself and learn how you could strengthen some of your soft skills.”

Nieto Felipe
MBA ‘18D