The Oxford Advanced Strategy and Leadership Professional

This is a specialist and intensive training course designed for ambitious and motivated managers who are willing to contribute to the organizational conversations of the future. Delegates are expected to bring their own thoughts to the training course’s questions and discussions, in a confidential space where debate is encouraged and respected. Those that can contribute fully with their fellow professionals and apply the learnings to their own organization’s context and needs, will gain the most from this training course.

This training course is delivered in a collegiate environment, mixing a deliberately relaxed and informal creative atmosphere with challenging intellectual content. The training course will blend  learning formats that will stimulate and stretch participants, including formal seminar style presentations structured and informal discussions, along with solo work and group exercises to provide lots of time for ideas, thinking and reflection. Content will connect concepts and ideas constructively, from day to day, and delivery uses a mix of workshop tools, from printed materials, slides, case studies, design work and videos.

At the end of this Oxford Advanced Strategy and Leadership Professional training course, successful delegates will learn how to:

• Apply respected models and tools within their planning and management work.
• Understand their own leadership style and improve how they communicate.
• Contribute fully to future executive conversations around change.
• Apply different forms of thinking and analysis to different organizational problems.
• Build a team culture that encourages critical thinking, creativity, and high performance.

This DXB Institute 10-day training course is designed for a range of talented managers across the organization who are expected to be involved in in contributing to future strategic changes, leading teams and steering important management projects.

This Oxford Advanced Strategy and Leadership Professional training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• General Managers, across commercial, marketing, product, technical, or operations.
• Team leaders, tasked with improving performance & delivery in their departments.
• Specialist managers, responsible for building new business cases, plans and projects.
• Executives responsible for creating and driving greater organizational change.
• Other professionals, advising executives and managers (e.g., lawyers, accountants, etc.)

Organisational Impact

The organization will benefit as successful participants will be able to:

• Contribute professionally to the most important leadership conversations.
• Introduce new ways of exploring change of practices, within the organization.
• Support the use of modern agile methods within their own teams and projects.
• Confidently create future business cases, requiring analysis and fresh ideas.
• Manage their team better, develop talent and build stronger relationships.

Personal Impact

Participants will personally benefit from:

• Building confidence in discussing strategy, planning and performance at executive level
• Gaining a range of tools, methods and ideas to use in their own practice and work.
• Understanding their own professional role, and how to develop more impact.
• Improving their personal leadership style, to improve performance and develop talent.
• Sharing and learning from other executives, in a confidential and safe space.