(Oxford) Diploma in Creative Leadership
What you'll learn
- Delegate effectively
- Develop own skills
- Identify creativity you never knew you had
- Save time
- Become more effective
- How to establish a happy environment - within yourself and outside
Requirements
- None
Description
It may seem that this 10.5 hours course is rather short...but that would be misleading because:
This is a short course...and yet it is not as you revisit as you change
Ten short lessons...you become a better leader.
It seems strange and yet both the statements are true - but only if you choose to make it so.
There are ONLY ten lectures: true. But they are ONLY short if you watch them once and do nothing. These lectures are made to watch time and time again because each lecture contains exercises you are to respond to, areas to investigate, key points to learn, articles.
Uniquely among leadership courses you are given prompts and then asked to imagine the prompt is the only prompt that you have to base a lecture on.
What does it tell you?
How can you use it to deliver a speech?
You then post in the Q/A.
Don't worry if no ideas come to mind - they will be suggested.
In another aspect of the lecture you will be given a list of leadership qualities - and then 'tested' to see if you remember them!
Layer upon layer - that's why these short lectures need to be watched, absorbed and acted on - repeatedly.
Leadership is not 'learnt' by academic study but by application - and that is what this course does: urges you to apply.
This course includes:
Homework assignments
Creativity exercises
Multiple choice
Oxford Diploma (short course)
Who this course is for:
- Student of leadership
- Practising managers who feel 'burnt out'
- Leaders under stress
- Leaders seeking to exceed their potential
Instructors
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 10,515 Reviews
- 252,598 Students
- 143 Courses
Studied at:
· University of Oxford (Philosophy and Economics)
· Oxford Brookes (Teacher training)
· University of Glamorgan (Business and Economics)
Qualifications
· Professional qualifications at Masters level
· Business and Economics degree
· Examiner for four major examining boards, at ‘O’ and ‘A’ level.
· Three teaching diplomas plus CELTA
· Qualified fitness trainer
Key academic positions held:
· Principal Oxford School of Learning
· Director of Studies: St Joseph’s Hall, Oxford
· Head of Economics: Cherwell Tutors
· Head of Business and Economics: Pipers Corner School, Buckingham
· Founder: Almost Random Theatre
I have experience in four main areas:
a. Teaching (40+ years of face-to-face experience)
b. Running businesses and conferences
c. Acting in films and theatre
d. Volunteering for a number of charities
Teaching/Instructor experience
Face-to-face: MBA students on a 1-1 basis; at University; Grammar, Comprehensive and F.E. College. This has included being Principal, Director of Studies; Head of Business and Head of Economics at various times in the past 40 years!
I have taught: Economics, Business, Sociology, Politics, English Literature and Psychology.
I have also run seminars for Teachers of |Psychology, Sociology, Businessman Economics.
I have run Therapeutic Art groups at Care Homes.
The success of my Business and Economics students has been featured in several newspapers plus I have appeared on BBC.
Running businesses and conferences.
I started Oxford School of Learning in the 1980s. From the college came Marketing Education Services, OSL Training and Saturday tutors.
In 201 I started Almost Random Theatre and have taken actors to Poland and the Czech Republic as well as running Drama days at schools.
Writing: my plays are sold to schools; I have 100+ books on Amazon; I used to write a regular column for The Guardian and BBC Bitesize.
Acting in films and theatre
My plays are sold to schools. I have performed at Oxford and Brighton Fringes as well as appearing in 100+ films, national TV advertising campaigns and role-played a hospital patient for Buckingham University’s medical degree students.
Volunteering
I have worked/am still working for Care Homes, Multiple Sclerosis Society, Dystonia Society, Stroke Association, Stroke Club, Talkback, Oxford Recovery College, Tandem, Age UK and Sport in Mind. I’ve given my tutorial fees to the Multiple Sclerosis Society and the Dystonia Society. I currently have a GoFundMe page to help lonely elderly people.
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 7,712 Reviews
- 183,403 Students
- 52 Courses
Oxford School of Learning was set up in 1986. It became a limited company which was then closed down around 2018 as there was no need to keep it going. The School kept going though, writing/providing books, online courses and issuing the Oxford School of Learning Diploma to those who met difficult criteria.
As the name suggests, Oxford School of Learning is based in Oxford, UK. The original Principal was Chris Sivewright who now delivers various Economics and Business courses for us.