The Oxford Leadership Seminar

DAY 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's Window

• Understanding the difference between leadership and management

DAY 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

DAY 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

DAY 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

DAY 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