(Oxford Diploma ) : The Leadership Program
What you'll learn
- Explain the main leadership trends for 2024
- Examine each aspect of each trend - and refer to other trends
- Apply to their own workplace the knowledge contained here
- Develop the ideas, summarised in the end of lecture cartoon
- Through discussion of Case Studies, explore and expand their learning
Requirements
- A printer for the Case Studies
- Time and ability to focus on the real-life situations
- Willingness to discuss Case Studies in the Q/A
Description
So, you want to get ahead in 2025...and stay ahead? Then you need to know about leadership trends and be able to remember them, expand on them, apply them by remembering a key word, a key phrase or...a cartoon?
This short course deals with leadership trends for this year (2024), summarises them and then a cartoon especially drawn for this course by award-winning Pepe (co-instructor) is shown. Freeze the frame. Print it out and stick it on the fridge so every morning you see these key leadership trends.
Trends such as:
1. Storytellers with a vision
2. Leaders aligning with mission statement, values, and purpose, and leading from the front.
3. Planners for the future - retaining workers as they look forward to working for you
4. Wellbeing-oriented. Employee-centric. Nurturing employees, little by little...to maximise output.
5. No 'I' in team...take it from there
6. A tactician, knowing how to beat off competition, keep employees and deliver what is required at work and to the customer
7. An innovator in systems and products, services and customer satisfaction
8. Delegating, empowering and equipping workers with the tools for the job.
9. No-one lives for ever. A leader will plan for his/her succession
10. Supporting causes for the benefit of all
So, each lecture is a brief description and some analysis of a trend and this is summarised by the cartoon. Throughout the course you are encouraged to think and apply the lectures to your working life - and to give feedback and add to discussions.
Many of the lectures have modern Case Studies accompanying them. This is to facilitate learning as discussion questions are included. By discussing the Case Study a student will learn so much more as the Case Study is directly linked to the lecture. This high level of Instructor-Student involvement cements learning and allows diligent students to gain far more from the course.
This course comes with the Oxford Diploma
Who this course is for:
- All studying management and leadership at University - or intending to study
- Those aspiring to leadership
- Middle management
- Experienced leaders in need of a quick refresher
- Anyone job hunting for leadership roles and needing a quick summary
- Students interested in trying new learning strategies
- Students who realise you learn by doing and welcome Instructor involvement
Instructors
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 10,213 Reviews
- 251,322 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
- 7,483 Reviews
- 182,275 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.