About this course
The sport of cycling provides many valuable lessons in leadership, strategy, and teamwork. As part of a cycling team, you learn to set directions and keep your team on track, to communicate clearly, to manage the individual and collective energy of the team, to mentor teammates through positive reinforcement and rejecting negativity, to prioritize when unforeseen challenges occur, and to have fun in doing so.
This course is built around establishing a cycling team, enabling you to practice leadership and teamwork skills while reflecting on these experiences together in an academic context. A cycling team also connects people in a very concrete way, creating a unique sense of belonging. In doing so, it is a positive and constructive experience for students studying abroad. Throughout the course, you will read and discuss selected articles on strategy, leadership, and organizational behavior, linking theory and concepts to the cycling team.
Within an organizational context, your team will formulate a strategy, set goals together, take turns as team captain, and develop a strong understanding of group dynamics. The course also contains everything that is important around the bike. How to prepare for a bike ride. How to maintain the bike. How to repair a punctured tire. All together, this course combines the action of biking with theories of leadership and organizational behavior to create a uniquely active learning experience.
Syllabus
Spring 2025
Go to syllabusThis is a draft syllabus. The final syllabus will be available here a few days prior to the new course’s first start date.
Course note
To participate in this course, you must be comfortable riding an ordinary bike, willing to bike in all weather conditions, and learn the rules of the road.
Faculty
Henriette Rald
FacultyInternational Politics, University of Copenhagen, 1996. Owner & Director Rald & Co, Strategy Consulting Business, 2018-present. With DIS since 2022.