Leadership Project at the Faculty of Business Administration of the Universidad Externado De Colombia (Proyecto De Liderazgo En La Facultad De Administración De Empresas De La Universidad Externado De Colombia)

Abstract

The University “Externado de Colombia” from its Fac-ulty of Business Administration has been questioning the national problematic whitin the approach of development, competitiveness and progress, it has been realized that in pRoYECto dE LidERAzgo En LA fACULtAd dE AdMinistRACión dE EMpREsAs dE LA UnivERsidAd EXtERnAdo dE CoLoMBiA ILIANA PáEZ gABRIUNAS*many fields of action there is a deficiency in Leadership and Leaders. Due to this, our faculty has defined whitin its lines of work in the Investigations Center, the line called “Total Management”, and inside this one the following projects has been defined: Leadership, Strategy, and Thought and Managerial Practice, in order to apply the knowledge and results obtained in tools of formation to the students, companies and businessmen.The project of Leadership pretends to study the topic from the conceptualization of this term to the desing of a Pedagogic Model of Leaders‘ formation, and in this way consolidate this important component in our Educational Project, as a response to a necessity that it has been felt in the country and the region.