(Oxford) Diploma : Leadership & Cultural Diversity
What you'll learn
- The importance of cultural diversity
- The importance of age diversity
- Working in a multi-generational office
- The Skeldon approach
- Dressing gown theory
- Artificial Intelligence and Generation Alpha
- How to motivate Baby Boomers AND Millennials
- Industrial Organisational Strategy
- Leadership in India
- Generation Alpha - and the challenges posed
- Generation Z - and the problems posed
Requirements
- A printer to print out and make notes on the Case Studies (written 2024)
- Time to focus on lectures and homework
Description
IMPORTANT: This course has an emphasis on discussion - the course is to a world-wide global class. We can all learn from one another. This long Diploma course is serious and workbooks and assignments are set. Leadership is not about watching videos alone but discussing, considering, suggesting and then making decisions. The Educational Announcements and the Q/A ensure that this course is always up to date.
Recent review:
"love detailed oriented people, and this instructor not only has a vision, he takes the best time to explain himself and his method"
Lectures added in April 2024:
Decision-making and team dynamics
Nurturing an inclusive environment
Reflections on the role of the leader
Key takeaways
This course is split into three sections:
Generations:
Generations in workplace
8 things to know Millennials
Generation alpha
The Skeldon approach
Cultural diversity
Benefits
Dressing Gown theory
Challenges
Management
Managing Baby Boomers
Managing a multi-generational workplace
The emphasis throughout in giving practical examples and the setting of research topics. You - the students from 166 countries - know far more than I do about your own culture, your own skills and your own workplace environments. I bring to the course my academic and work-based background, (too many) years of experience and a willingness to listen.
Many many lectures about the generations - interspersed with clips from films which I had the privilege of acting in - and some exercises/questions for you to answer.
Theorists?
Maslow
Herzberg
Taylor
McGregor
Skeldon approach
Dressing gown theory
So, some new(ish) and some old.
But all are relevant.
An important feature of this course is that several lectures include Case Studies, written in July 2024. It is by doing Case Studies, applying knowledge, discussing, re-evaluating and participating with other course members, that real learning takes place. The course leads to the Oxford Diploma.
Who this course is for:
- Those who will be in work in the future
- Those currently in management
- Those in work but not as managers
- Those who have now retired
- Those studying management and business at University
- People starting up a business and seeking to expand
- Middle managers in the Public Sector
Instructors
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 10,419 Reviews
- 252,195 Students
- 144 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
- 7,637 Reviews
- 183,053 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.