The Oxford Leadership
Overview:
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.
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 individual's 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
Targeted Audience:
- Managers among all managerial levels
- Supervisors & Team leaders
- Employees who interested to gain very useful skills and knowledge to improve their career path
Course Outlines:
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