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 Oxford leadership program 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 for ineffective leadership. It runs like a 5-day Leadership master class.

Targeted Groups:

• Managers among all managerial levels
• Supervisors & Team leaders
• Employees who interested to gain very useful skills and knowledge to improve their career path 

Course Objectives:

At the end of this course the participants will be able to:

• Understand the wide range of skills required of the leader
• Develop further the individuals key skills
• Build confidence and ability in leadership skills
• Understand the impact of change on teams
• Develop communication skills
• Generate a strategy for improvement of these key skills in each team member through coaching and mentoring
• Develop a culture of continuous sustainable development
• Analyze personal leadership style and personal impact on the team
• Set positive behavioral change in the minds of leaders
• Increase productivity and performance
• Understand how leadership qualities can be transposed to new tasks and new teams

Targeted Competencies:

• Leadership skills
• Communication skills
• Time management
• Problem-solving
• Decision making

Course Content:

Unit 1: Achieving Excellence in Leadership Issues:

• Foundations of Self-Transformation
• Understanding the key roles and responsibilities for the effective leader
• Transformational Leadership
• Identifying and developing the key skills required as a leader
• Leadership styles and their effect on the team
• Situational Leadership
• JoHari Window
• Understanding the difference between leadership and management

Unit 2: Excellence in Communication:

• SWOT Analysis
• Understanding the principles of excellent communication
• The Communication Channels
• Active Listening
• Communication Cycle & Filters
• Identifying and Overcoming your communication problems
• Questioning Skills
• Coaching
• Leadership Beliefs

Unit 3: Time Management, Problem Solving, and Decision Making:

• Making the best use of your time
• Setting and maintaining priorities
• Understanding the difference between urgent and important
• Identifying your key time stealers
• Making the Pareto Principle work for you
• A structured approach to problem-solving
• Identifying the influences on decisions you make
• Selecting and evaluating options
• Creativity and problem solving

Unit 4: Understanding and Influencing Behaviour:

• Understanding why we behave as we do
• Personality profiling
• Different types of motivation
• Different forms of behavior
• Using our behavior to persuade and influence others
• Dealing with difficult behavior in others
• The 7 Step Creative Process
• Developing a negotiation style

Unit 5: Managing People To Achieve Results:

• Maslow's - Hierarchy of Needs
• Frederick Herzberg – Hygiene Factors And Motivation
• Is Money a Motivator?
• Managing Conflict
• Using delegation & empowerment effectively
• Coaching and Developing Others
• The role of coaching & mentoring
• How to Give Feedback