Personal development
Cranfield’s Executive Doctorate provides a rich developmental experience in ways that may not be immediately obvious.
The many skills that you acquire, or in many cases build on, are sophisticated ones that will clearly differentiate you from other managers. The skills are both derived from, and are seamlessly transferable to, ongoing business situations.
Undertaking the Executive Doctorate can be for a variety of personal reasons, for example:
- the desire for intellectual stimulation
- a belief that a DBA will enhance your career
- recognition that accepted wisdom is not sufficient for effectively dealing with work challenges
- enjoyment of lifelong learning
- fulfilling a lifelong aspiration to research something in depth.
As well as making a contribution to knowledge about practice that can be used by the community at large, most people expect that doing the degree will have a personal impact on them and their work. However, they may not be able to explain exactly what they expect this personal impact to be.
The Personal Development aspect of the Executive Doctorate provides you with a structured approach to help you reflect on and make sense of this more personal impact. By reflecting on these aspects in a systematic way, you will be better able to harness the personal learning which is inherent to the programme.
There are three key areas of anticipated personal development:
- increased managerial effectiveness
- increased understanding of yourself as a researcher
- transfer of skills.