The Oxford Leadership Seminar

Introduction:

This seminar is designed to provide practicing or potential leaders with the knowledge and skills required by the role. This leadership programme enables your leaders to critically explore the key idea that the most important function of a leader is to help their people move through the stages of team development.

It will cover all the critical competencies necessary in effective leadership. It runs like a 5 day Leadership master class.

The highlights of this seminar are:

Communicate effectively throughout the organisation
Balance the conflicting priorities of a leadership role
Avoiding getting stuck in ‘management’ functions
Solve problems and make decisions in a structured way
Adapt your leadership style to any situation
Achieve results through your team

Objectives

By the end of this programme you will be able to:

To understand the wide range of skills required of the leader
To develop further the individuals key skills
To build confidence and ability in leadership skills
To understand the impact of change on teams
To develop communication skills
To generate a strategy for improvement of these key skills in each team member through coaching and mentoring

Training Methodology:

The seminar is based on a combination of interactive activities - group and individual exercises, case studies, and discussions - along with formal delivery of the latest theory and thinking.

The environment will be a supportive one in which individuals with varying degrees of experience will be encouraged to share the approaches they currently use as well as try out new ones that they encounter on the seminar. The seminar leader will be on hand to answer any questions a delegate may have and to act as a facilitator for building and applying new approaches. We aim for this to be an enjoyable as well as a learning experience and feel that the mix of style and learning techniques will prove valuable to those that attend.

Organisational Impact:

Leaders take greater responsibility for their personal impact on their people
They will understand the link between values and behaviour standards in their teams
They will be exposed to, and will practice, techniques essential for effective leadership
Provide a proactive support to their managers within their organization
Increased effectiveness against personal KPI’s through more effective use of team
Leaders with focus on actions and outcomes not theory

Personal Impact:

Develop a culture of continuous sustainable development
Ability to analyse personal leadership style and personal impact on the team
Embed positive behavioural change in the minds of leaders
Increased productivity and performance
Understanding of how leadership qualities can be transposed to new tasks and new teams