The Oxford Advanced Management & Leadership Programme

This Oxford Advanced Management & Leadership training course uses a range of approaches to learning, including experiential group activities, individual exercises, mini-case studies, role plays and syndicate discussions. Formal inputs are used to introduce underpinning theory. A key part of the learning process is sharing the differing experiences participants bring, as well as experimenting with novel – and sometimes challenging – techniques.

By the end of this training course, you will be able to:

• Define and to demystify the concepts of ‘strategy’ and ‘strategic plans’, but also to demystify the strategic process - as part of ‘Helicopter Thinking’
• Break the strategy process down step-by-step, providing a practical toolkit for managers for each key stage
• Illustrate it through some well chosen and highly stimulating case studies - and to distill the lessons from this
• Apply it to your own area of management responsibility - through planning the analysis, option generation, choice, implementation and measurement phases of strategy
• Put this within the overall context of the organisation and of the change and influencing process generally
• Give you a lot more confidence in managing your role strategically within your organisation
• Understand your role as a manager and a leader
• Establish clear objectives and standards of performance for your team and to manage and use conflict and challenge

This Gulf Rowad training course has been designed and developed using the most current proven approaches, methods and tools.  It will be beneficial for any leader or manager with responsibility for guiding people through growth, challenges or strategic change:

• Board Directors
• Senior Executives
• Functional Managers
• Strategy Analysts
• Portfolio / Program Managers

Organisational Impact

• Much better decision-taking and time and resource allocation - leading to better organisational and individual performance
• Use of a well proven planning process
• More effective implementation

Fully functional teams are at the heart of organisational performance. Leaders at all levels who can effectively structure, integrate and motivate their teams are better able to focus on longer-term organisational and customer needs.

Personal Impact

• Increasing career flexibility (vertically and horizontally)
• Accelerated thinking speed and problem resolution for all difficult dilemmas
• Far greater motivation and proactivity
• Exposed to a range of perspectives on teams and the leadership function, sharing examples of best practice and together solving real and simulated team performance issues
• Practice new and sometimes challenging techniques will build flexibility and confidence in harnessing the power of the team

Participants will be exposed to a range of perspectives on teams and the leadership function, sharing examples of best practice and together solving real and simulated team performance issues. Practicing new and sometimes challenging techniques will build flexibility and confidence in harnessing the power of the team.