Oxford Leadership Programme:
Self-Managing Leadership®
Aligning people and culture with purpose and strategy.
Find your compass, define your Purpose, Values and Vision as a leader for the next chapter of your life and career.
Programme Type
Leadership Development from the Inside Out
For Whom
All levels of the organisation, from lower Management to Executives
Outcome
Sustainable change on an individual, team and organisational level.
Duration
2.5-day residential or 4-half-day virtual, customisable.
Purpose-driven leaders through growth from within.
Oxford Leadership’s Self- Managing Leadership® (SML®) Programme participants will discover their ‘why’ and be able to enjoy professional and personal successes while having a positive impact on the world around them. To lead others, you first need to learn how to lead yourself, expand your vision and develop your EQ. To be credible your purpose must become integrated in your life – you need to walk your talk. To be authentic you must act from within, guided by your own purpose and values and to make a difference your purpose and values must become your North Star, which guides your choices, decisions and actions.
The Oxford Leadership SML ® Programme is powerful step by step framework for focusing, changing unhelpful habits, making critical choices and bringing plans to life. Participants learn how to influence change at the individual, team and organisational level. Our 10-step model helps participants identify their purpose, values and vision in order to define the focus and character which define their leadership. Each participant develops a 90-day action plan which focuses on a few things which have the largest impact, for both personal and professional development.
Understand your strengths, define your values and find your purpose to grow yourself as a person and as a leader.
Develop a Personal Strategy and Action Plan for your personal leadership development journey.
Our alumni lead top organisations
Aligning human and leadership development for organisational growth.
Oxford Leadership’s 10-step model helps participants identify their purpose, values and vision in order to define the focus and character which defines their leadership. A 90-day action plan for each participant will be devised focusing on the few things which have the largest impact, for both personal and professional development hence benefiting the organisation on a deeper and more sustainable way in aspects of culture, values and growth. Developing the individual leader from the inside out leads to increased team trust and commitment to a purpose beyond individual ego, and contributes to a collective organisational wisdom resulting in more agility, deeper engagement and better performance.
Programme outcomes
- Identify your purpose and create a future vision for your life in three key areas: your role as a leader, your role in your family life, community life and your personal life.
- Recognise and put in place a plan to overcome barriers which are holding you back from becoming all that you can be.
- Develop concrete strategies for better managing yourself, your relationships, your career and your organisation.
- Be a purpose-driven leader aware of your own strengths and challenges embedding purpose and values in the way you live and lead.
- Lead authentically– aligning personal values and goals with the organisation’s goals.
Who is this for
- Organisations looking to instil a human-centred culture and approach to their leadership
- Organisations that like to send their emerging leaders on a journey of growing into leadership roles
- Organisations that want to invest in developing and enabling their leadership to better perform with clarity in times of ambiguity, complexity, and paradox.
- Leaders and senior managers looking to grow themselves and with that the organisation whilst evolving their leadership style.
A transformational journey
The SML ® Programme consists of 10 comprehensive modules as outlined below. Our Leadership Companions will accompany you on a journey guiding you through a transformation process of analysis and discovery. You will gain insights about yourself, formulate a 90 Day Action Plan and get the support you need to move you forward to being yourself better and realising your potential.
Module 1 – Facts
Identify what stage you are at in your life. You will see where you’ve come from and what you’ve learned. You will identify what (good and bad) patterns of thinking, responding and behaving you’ve acquired. You will discover what scale of change is needed. You will also learn about presence and the ‘total intelligence’ of the leader.
Module 2 – Insights
What does my story tell me about myself?
Assess the personal strengths and positive patterns that you can build on for the next chapter in your life. You will also identify the weaknesses and negative patterns that need to be dealt with. You will learn how to develop the art of becoming the ‘detached observer’ to get perspective and understand what’s really going on.
Module 3 – Purpose
If I live my truth, what am I supposed to be doing with my life?
Learn about the power of your purpose and keeping the right intention. You will work on clarifying your “why” and developing your personal compass for the next chapter in your life. You will learn the key to influence your next chapter and trajectory.
Module 4 – Values
What values and guiding principles support my “why”?
Identify the values that are connected to your purpose in order to guide and influence major choices, decisions and relationships. You will learn how to detect the values which give shape and definition to your character as an individual and person.
Module 5 – Vision
What does my vision ideally point to? How do I need to adjust the way I see?
Learn about the power of your purpose and keeping the right intention. You will work on clarifying your “why” and developing your personal compass for the next chapter in your life. You will learn the key to influence your next chapter and trajectory.
Module 6 – Barriers
What are the barriers that I will probably face while moving towards my vision?
In this session you will explore the obstacles and challenges that need to be dealt with for you to be able to achieve your vision. You will identify the root cause of old patterns that are compromising your success.
Modules 7- & 8 – Goals & Strategies
What do I do and how do I do it?
In these sessions you will identify the choices and decisions that reinforce your goals and strategies for achieving your vision.
Module 9 – Action Plan
What are the immediate steps to move towards my vision?
You will be guided in developing an action plan for the implementation of the change you are looking for in your life and career. You will learn how to sustain your energy, commitment and enthusiasm for the direction you choose.
Module 10 – Implementation
What habits and patterns do I need to change?
In this session you will discover ways to carry your action plan into reality and how to establish new habits and vital behaviours for success.
Tailored to fit
SML ® can be delivered to scale to your organisation’s needs, reaching to hundreds or thousands of your employees. Content can be customised and jointly developed with you to incorporate your company’s key messages and aligned to your strategy.
Programme costs
Costs depend on the delivery mode (residential, virtual) and number of participants. Customisation is available to meet your organisation’s requirements, e.g. virtual delivery, large scale residential programmes. As Companions for Leadership, our relationship with our customers is paramount and jointly with our clients we devise a programme package that suites their needs.
World-class delivery
The standard delivery format is 2.5 days residential or 4 x 4hrs virtual. Facilitated by world-class leadership consultants with corporate experience. Context setting for each step is done in the full group and participants work in smaller groups to facilitate a deeper exchange promoting a clearer vision and Action Plan for the future.
Part of the programme are follow-up sessions (e.g. two follow up sessions of 90 minutes each) to review the progress of the Action Plans and inject new energy in the personal and professional development journey.
What our clients say…
I meet many leadership consultancies with very complicated models and very little to say. Companions for Leadership is the total opposite