The NTU Leadership Program upholds four core values—Team, Altruism, Action, and Change—with an aim to cultivate leadership thinking, problem-solving skills, and effective communication in students. The program has designed a series of leadership classes, including Introduction to Leadership, The Operational Thinking of Leading Enterprise, and Critical Thinking and Problem Solving. The expert guidance of professionals with workplace experience helps students learn how to generate new ideas and refine and narrow down to the best idea during a project, thereby letting students acknowledge that to “lead” and to “be led” are equally important in teams. The program also collaborates with the Taiwan Women on Boards Association to offer Leadership Lectures that give students the opportunity to learn from and interact with corporate leaders.
The program organizes various activities to facilitate interaction among lecturers, industry professionals, and students outside the classroom. Events such as Study Abroad and Internship Experience Forum provide a platform for experienced students to share their adventures with other peers, which encourages students to explore different possibilities. As students learn more about their potential and explore future learning opportunities, they also work to bring about changes to their lives by focusing on diverse societal issues such as social inequality mitigation, environmental sustainability, and local revitalization. The students then work in teams to put theory into practice. For example, the Refugee Network Taiwan initiative provides online English classes to refugees and has won the Best Impact Award in the U20 International Youth Forum. The Leadership Program ignites a fire within students and gets them to confront future challenges, hoping that they will become leaders of change and contribute to the society and the world.
In collaboration with the Taiwan Women on Boards Association, Leadership Lectures has invited 57 leaders from a variety of professional fields since Fall 2021. These lectures guide students to understand the job market and industrial development, which enable them to make career plans early.
Via online teaching, the NTU Leadership Program project – Refugee Network Taiwan provides fundamental education to Syrian refugee children and further establishes a job-matching platform for refugees to solve the problems of unemployment.
The Operational Thinking of Leading Enterprise (OTLE) class holds an OTLE Alumni Assembly, during which alumni share personal career experiences. Such event encourages students from different departments to gather and exchange ideas.
