NextGen is a program dedicated to developing the career potential
of exceptional junior staff with a minimum of three years of work
experience in museums. We seek those identified by senior executives
as the field's most promising talent, individuals already responding
impressively to added responsibilities.
Program Approach
NextGen addresses the leadership-management continuum for museum
professionals. The program stresses the importance of realistic
self-assessment, negotiating opportunities, learning from all assignments,
combining energy with focus, and securing appropriate mentors. Emphasis
is placed on broad institutional perspectives, leading from any
position, and strengthening ones own intellectual curiosity.
The program begins with an intensive look at oneself in support
of developing a personalized professional learning agenda. Alongside
fellow peer mentors, the program continues by examining one's role
within a museum, the nature of teams, and the power of inquiry as
influence—and speaks to greater institutional needs and the
future of the field at large. The aim is to push through old habits
and individual viewpoints to gain insights—develop new ways
of thinking and behaving in order to understand the broader strategic
context for oneself and for a museum.
Faculty members, a group of dedicated senior museum executives
in the field and experts in executive education, stay over the course
of the program to facilitate rich conversations in a confidential,
collegial environment. Readings, exercises, and individual case
study work introduce participants to key leadership fundamentals
for long term sustainability.
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