Oxford Diploma in Creative Leadership

It may look like this is a 10.5-hour course made up of only 114 short lectures. In one sense, that is true. But it is also misleading.

This course is designed to be revisited, reflected on, and applied over time. As your experience changes, your understanding of leadership changes too. That means the course grows with you.

Yes, there are only 114 lectures. But they are only “short” if you watch them once and move on. In reality, each lecture is built to be returned to again and again because it contains questions to answer, exercises to complete, ideas to test, key leadership points to absorb, and articles to think about more deeply.

Now, with the inclusion of the November Workbook, the course goes much further. The workbook adds a substantial extra layer of study through summaries, discussion questions, research tasks, current-affairs reading, and wider business and economics themes linked to leadership. This means the course is not just something you watch. It becomes something you work through, respond to, and build from.

One of the distinctive features of the course is that you are given prompts and then challenged to imagine that the prompt is the only starting point you have for building a lecture, talk, or leadership reflection.

You are asked:

• What does this prompt tell you?

• How could you develop it into a speech?

• How might you apply it in a real leadership situation?

You can then post your thoughts in the Q&A.

And do not worry if no ideas come to mind at first — guidance and suggested directions are included to help you develop your thinking.

In other parts of the course, you are introduced to leadership qualities, frameworks, and practical ideas, and then encouraged to test your understanding by recalling, applying, and discussing them.

That is the real structure of the course: layer upon layer.

This is why the lectures are meant to be watched, absorbed, revisited, and acted on repeatedly. Leadership is not developed through passive academic study alone. It grows through application, reflection, discussion, and practice — and that is exactly what this course is designed to encourage.

This course includes:

• 114 focused video lectures

• The November Workbook

• Homework assignments

• Creativity exercises

• Multiple-choice activities

• Q&A discussion opportunities

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