Leadership & Management
The Oxford Leadership Seminar
This five-day seminar gives leaders a concentrated space to examine how they lead. Participants develop skills in leadership self-awareness, influence and stakeholder leadership, decision-making and difficult conversations, and team development and change leadership.
Introduction
The Oxford Leadership Seminar Training Course gives leaders a concentrated space to examine how they lead and why it works or does not. Participants work through leadership purpose, influence, decision-making, team development, and change in a discussion-led format. The programme draws on recognised leadership frameworks and real leadership experience from the room. As a result, learners leave with sharper judgement and a clear plan for their own practice. Furthermore, the course strengthens self-awareness, stakeholder credibility, and the resilience that leadership over time demands.
The Oxford Leadership Seminar Course Objectives
- Define personal leadership purpose and connect it to organizational direction.
- Distinguish leadership, management, and authority in everyday practice.
- Apply situational leadership (Hersey-Blanchard) to match style to readiness.
- Build influence and trust using the Trust Equation and power-interest grids.
- Make higher-quality decisions using decision matrices and root cause analysis.
- Communicate with clarity using the pyramid principle (Minto) and active listening.
- Coach and develop people with the GROW model and SBI feedback.
- Build high-performing teams with psychological safety and clear accountability.
- Lead change with Kotter's eight steps and the ADKAR model.
- Set a personal leadership development plan with measurable commitments.
Course Methodology
- Discussion-led seminars on leadership dilemmas and lived experience.
- Workshops on influence, decision-making, and team development.
- Group exercises on difficult conversations and change leadership.
- Hands-on practice with the Trust Equation, pyramid principle, and GROW.
- Simulation of a contested decision and a leadership under pressure.
- Facilitator coaching and peer review on personal leadership plans.
Who Should Take This Course
- Senior managers, directors, and heads of function.
- Experienced managers seeking a reflective leadership space.
- High-potential leaders preparing for broader responsibility.
- Business unit and functional leaders.
- Programme and transformation leaders.
- Consultants advising on leadership and organizational development.
The Oxford Leadership Seminar Course Outlines
Leadership Purpose and Self-Awareness
- • What leadership means beyond position and title.
- • Personal purpose, values, and long-term intent.
- • Leadership styles and situational leadership (Hersey-Blanchard).
- • Emotional intelligence (Goleman) and personal triggers.
- • Strengths, blind spots, and the Johari Window.
- • Credibility, consistency, and personal presence.
- • Case discussion: a leader undone by an unexamined pattern.
Influence, Trust, and Stakeholder Leadership
- • The Trust Equation: credibility, reliability, intimacy, and self-orientation.
- • Building influence without relying on formal authority.
- • Stakeholder mapping with power-interest grids.
- • Communication, framing, and the pyramid principle (Minto).
- • Active listening and questioning technique.
- • Managing upwards and representing a team credibly.
- • Workshop: planning influence for a live leadership objective.
Decision-Making and Difficult Conversations
- • Decision-making under uncertainty with decision matrices.
- • Root cause analysis and problem framing.
- • Countering cognitive biases and groupthink.
- • Preparing for and opening a difficult conversation.
- • Feedback with the SBI (Situation-Behaviour-Impact) model.
- • Conflict handling with the Thomas-Kilmann conflict modes.
- • Simulation: a contested decision and a difficult conversation.
Building Teams and Developing People
- • Psychological safety (Edmondson) and high-performing team conditions.
- • Accountability, ownership, and decision rights with RACI.
- • Coaching with the GROW model.
- • Delegation and empowerment at the right level.
- • Recognition, motivation, and engagement.
- • Developing successors and building capability.
- • Exercise: designing a development plan for a team member.
Leading Change and Personal Leadership Practice
- • Leading change with Kotter's eight steps and the ADKAR model.
- • Communicating change and managing resistance.
- • Sustaining performance and personal resilience.
- • Ethics, integrity, and consistency under pressure.
- • Building a leadership network and support system.
- • Personal leadership development planning.
- • Capstone: presenting a personal leadership plan.
Conclusion
By successfully completing The Oxford Leadership Seminar, participants will gain a practical command of leadership purpose, influence, decision-making, team development, and change. They will acquire skills in trust building, structured communication, coaching, and change leadership grounded in self-awareness. Gentex Training Center designs the programme to help leaders sharpen their own practice with confidence.
FAQs
— What is the "The Oxford Leadership Seminar" course about?
It gives leaders a concentrated space to examine how they lead and why it works or does not. The course spans leadership purpose and self-awareness, influence and stakeholder leadership, decision-making and difficult conversations, team building and people development, and leading change and personal practice.
— What are the key benefits of the "The Oxford Leadership Seminar" course?
You leave with sharper judgement and a clear plan for your own practice. The course deepens self-awareness, strengthens trust and influence, improves decision quality and difficult conversations, and gives you a structured method for developing people and leading change.
— What skills will I gain from the "The Oxford Leadership Seminar" course?
You will develop four core skills: leadership self-awareness and purpose articulation, influence and stakeholder leadership, decision-making and difficult conversation handling, and team development with change leadership.
— What tools, methods, or standards are covered in the "The Oxford Leadership Seminar" course?
The course covers situational leadership (Hersey-Blanchard), Goleman's emotional intelligence framework, the Johari Window, the Trust Equation, power-interest grids, the pyramid principle (Minto), active listening and questioning technique, decision matrices, root cause analysis, the SBI (Situation-Behaviour-Impact) feedback model, the Thomas-Kilmann conflict modes, Edmondson's psychological safety framework, RACI, the GROW coaching model, Kotter's eight steps, and the ADKAR model.
— How is the "The Oxford Leadership Seminar" course applied in real-world practice?
Participants apply it to real work such as aligning a team behind a difficult decision, holding a conversation about underperformance, building trust with a sceptical stakeholder, and leading a change that affects how a team works. The same methods support succession planning and personal leadership reviews.
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Introduction
The Oxford Leadership Seminar Training Course gives leaders a concentrated space to examine how they lead and why it works or does not. Participants work through leadership purpose, influence, decision-making, team development, and change in a discussion-led format. The programme draws on recognised leadership frameworks and real leadership experience from the room. As a result, learners leave with sharper judgement and a clear plan for their own practice. Furthermore, the course strengthens self-awareness, stakeholder credibility, and the resilience that leadership over time demands.
The Oxford Leadership Seminar Course Objectives
- Define personal leadership purpose and connect it to organizational direction.
- Distinguish leadership, management, and authority in everyday practice.
- Apply situational leadership (Hersey-Blanchard) to match style to readiness.
- Build influence and trust using the Trust Equation and power-interest grids.
- Make higher-quality decisions using decision matrices and root cause analysis.
- Communicate with clarity using the pyramid principle (Minto) and active listening.
- Coach and develop people with the GROW model and SBI feedback.
- Build high-performing teams with psychological safety and clear accountability.
- Lead change with Kotter's eight steps and the ADKAR model.
- Set a personal leadership development plan with measurable commitments.
Course Methodology
- Discussion-led seminars on leadership dilemmas and lived experience.
- Workshops on influence, decision-making, and team development.
- Group exercises on difficult conversations and change leadership.
- Hands-on practice with the Trust Equation, pyramid principle, and GROW.
- Simulation of a contested decision and a leadership under pressure.
- Facilitator coaching and peer review on personal leadership plans.
Who Should Take This Course
- Senior managers, directors, and heads of function.
- Experienced managers seeking a reflective leadership space.
- High-potential leaders preparing for broader responsibility.
- Business unit and functional leaders.
- Programme and transformation leaders.
- Consultants advising on leadership and organizational development.
The Oxford Leadership Seminar Course Outlines
Leadership Purpose and Self-Awareness
- • What leadership means beyond position and title.
- • Personal purpose, values, and long-term intent.
- • Leadership styles and situational leadership (Hersey-Blanchard).
- • Emotional intelligence (Goleman) and personal triggers.
- • Strengths, blind spots, and the Johari Window.
- • Credibility, consistency, and personal presence.
- • Case discussion: a leader undone by an unexamined pattern.
Influence, Trust, and Stakeholder Leadership
- • The Trust Equation: credibility, reliability, intimacy, and self-orientation.
- • Building influence without relying on formal authority.
- • Stakeholder mapping with power-interest grids.
- • Communication, framing, and the pyramid principle (Minto).
- • Active listening and questioning technique.
- • Managing upwards and representing a team credibly.
- • Workshop: planning influence for a live leadership objective.
Decision-Making and Difficult Conversations
- • Decision-making under uncertainty with decision matrices.
- • Root cause analysis and problem framing.
- • Countering cognitive biases and groupthink.
- • Preparing for and opening a difficult conversation.
- • Feedback with the SBI (Situation-Behaviour-Impact) model.
- • Conflict handling with the Thomas-Kilmann conflict modes.
- • Simulation: a contested decision and a difficult conversation.
Building Teams and Developing People
- • Psychological safety (Edmondson) and high-performing team conditions.
- • Accountability, ownership, and decision rights with RACI.
- • Coaching with the GROW model.
- • Delegation and empowerment at the right level.
- • Recognition, motivation, and engagement.
- • Developing successors and building capability.
- • Exercise: designing a development plan for a team member.
Leading Change and Personal Leadership Practice
- • Leading change with Kotter's eight steps and the ADKAR model.
- • Communicating change and managing resistance.
- • Sustaining performance and personal resilience.
- • Ethics, integrity, and consistency under pressure.
- • Building a leadership network and support system.
- • Personal leadership development planning.
- • Capstone: presenting a personal leadership plan.
Conclusion
By successfully completing The Oxford Leadership Seminar, participants will gain a practical command of leadership purpose, influence, decision-making, team development, and change. They will acquire skills in trust building, structured communication, coaching, and change leadership grounded in self-awareness. Gentex Training Center designs the programme to help leaders sharpen their own practice with confidence.
FAQs
— What is the "The Oxford Leadership Seminar" course about?
It gives leaders a concentrated space to examine how they lead and why it works or does not. The course spans leadership purpose and self-awareness, influence and stakeholder leadership, decision-making and difficult conversations, team building and people development, and leading change and personal practice.
— What are the key benefits of the "The Oxford Leadership Seminar" course?
You leave with sharper judgement and a clear plan for your own practice. The course deepens self-awareness, strengthens trust and influence, improves decision quality and difficult conversations, and gives you a structured method for developing people and leading change.
— What skills will I gain from the "The Oxford Leadership Seminar" course?
You will develop four core skills: leadership self-awareness and purpose articulation, influence and stakeholder leadership, decision-making and difficult conversation handling, and team development with change leadership.
— What tools, methods, or standards are covered in the "The Oxford Leadership Seminar" course?
The course covers situational leadership (Hersey-Blanchard), Goleman's emotional intelligence framework, the Johari Window, the Trust Equation, power-interest grids, the pyramid principle (Minto), active listening and questioning technique, decision matrices, root cause analysis, the SBI (Situation-Behaviour-Impact) feedback model, the Thomas-Kilmann conflict modes, Edmondson's psychological safety framework, RACI, the GROW coaching model, Kotter's eight steps, and the ADKAR model.
— How is the "The Oxford Leadership Seminar" course applied in real-world practice?
Participants apply it to real work such as aligning a team behind a difficult decision, holding a conversation about underperformance, building trust with a sceptical stakeholder, and leading a change that affects how a team works. The same methods support succession planning and personal leadership reviews.
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