The Oxford Advanced Leadership and Management Seminar

Introduction

This seminar is designed to provide professionals with a complete leadership system of best practices to achieve dynamic leadership mastery combined with leading-edge transformational techniques to maximize their human potential to become outstanding leaders. This has been designed for practising or aspiring professionals to consider the skills and competencies required by the competent manager at all levels in the organisation and to begin the process of developing these skills.

The highlights of this intensive 10-day seminar are:

• Understanding the leader’s dynamic context
• Self-awareness and self-belief as drivers of leadership behaviours
• Adopting the appropriate ‘altitude’ as a leader
• Identify the key skills and competencies required by a competent professional
• Effective ways of managing performance for you and your team
• Strategies for negotiating, influencing and persuading those you work with

Seminar Objectives:

• Develop an understanding of different approaches to management, including leadership styles
• Learn how to performance manage teams and individuals
• Understand how to manage and develop teams
• Consider the role of negotiation, influencing and persuasion for the competent manager
• Develop their understanding of the skills and competencies required by the competent manager
• Plan your own continuous professional development

Training Methodology

The seminar will feature one-to-many presentations, role-plays, forum-based discussions, self-performance profiling tools, self-assessment and evaluation interviewing, creativity breakouts, group feedback and case studies. Lectures, videos and discussions are either preceded or followed by powerful individual or group exercises.

 There will also be a unique opportunity to experience personally, what happens when the key drivers and needs for every leader are taken away, resulting in company performance breakdown and eventual disaster.

Organisational Impact:

• Highly trained and motivated managers who will be able to raise performance standards and morale of their staff and colleagues
• Improved leadership, supervisory and management skills
• Improved productivity of the workforce
• Improved inter-team working
• More effective, efficient and successful teams and individuals
• Improved staff performance through continual personal development

Personal Impact

As a direct result of attending this seminar you will:

• Be able to identify the appropriate management model to improve individual and team performances
• Be able to create and monitor a continual personal development plan for yourself and your staff
• Have the necessary skills to be able to establish clear and concise goals for the organization, department and employees
• Be confident to plan and manage coaching sessions effectively
• Gain a greater understanding of highly effective management tools
• Develop the ability to motivate and develop your staff

Who Should Attend?

• All  Professionals in all functional areas of the organisation
• All Professionals who are operating at a first line or middle management level and wish to consolidate their management experience.
• Supervisors, Team Leaders and Management Staff
• Anyone who is aspiring for a management position.

Seminar Outline

Module I: Dynamics of Leadership

Day 1 : Leadership and Transformation

• Leadership and its context
• Self-perception
• Personality values and behaviour
• Personal transformation and path dependency
• Limiting beliefs and how to overcome them
• Personal style and style flexibility
  

Day 2 : Core Dynamic Competencies

• Leadership competencies
• Influence, authority and power
• Helicopters, satellites and drones
• Emotions, mood & disposition
• Rapport-building
• Communication: art or science?
  

Day 3 : Developing a Dynamic Leadership Vision

• Strategic orientation
• Contextual awareness
• SWOT analysis
• Rationality and its limitations
• Goals and objectives
• Goal congruence and alignment

Day 4 : Building Leadership Alliance And Teams

• Organisational dynamics
• Delegation and empowerment
• Organisational culture
• Creating a positive climate
• Developing the alliance through teamworking
• Team and individual development
• Motivating in times of change

Day 5 : Leadership and Life Balance

• Reassessing personal goals
• Balancing work, life and leadership
• Handling pressure
• Building a sustainable personal future
• Action planning
• Personal development planning

Module II: The Competent Manager

Day 6: Seminar introduction and objectives

• Reviewing the role of the competent manager
• Identifying the skills and competencies required by the role
• Understanding how management has to adapt to culture
• The new business reality and is impact on managers
• Building a professional development plan
• Creating business culture within out team
• Creating minimum behavioural standards
• Risk, reward, and motivation

Day 7: Establishing the difference between management and leadership

• Reviewing alternative approaches to management
• Establishing your own leadership and management style
• Identifying the impact your leadership and management style has on your team
• Learning that personality styles and assigning responsibility are linked
• Understanding the mindset of your staff
• How to run effective team meetings
• How to hold  performance improvement meeting
• Time management

Day 8: Understanding the performance management cycle

• Identifying and agreeing individual and team objectives
• Ensuring everything is in place for excellent performance
• Monitoring performance
• Reviewing performance and giving feedback
• Effective questioning techniques
• Silent coaching to improve individual performance
• Listening a managers greatest weapon
• 4 quadrant model of motivation

Day 9: Identifying stages of team development

• Understanding the difference between a group and a team
• Different team roles and their contribution to a successful team
• Identifying and planning effective team development
• How to present our ideas  to the team
• Communication tools for managers
• The relationship bank account
• Deposits and withdrawals
• Creating a culture of recognition
• The recognition formula

Day 10: Negotiation styles and when they might be appropriate

• Influencing your line manager, colleagues and customer
• Identifying appropriate opportunities and strategies for persuasion.
• Negotiation secrets to help you win
• Letting the other person Save  face
• Case study of elite negotiators
• Continuing development schedule
• Readers are leaders

Oxford Management Centre
John Eccles House
Robert Robinson Ave
Oxford Science Park
Oxford
OX4 4GP
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 1865 338088

Fax: +44 1865 338100

email info@oxford-management.com