Oxford Women’s

Leadership
Development
Programme
PROGRAMME CONTENT BREAKDOWN
Each programme module is designed to ensure an engaging
learning experience. You’ll be exposed to a wide variety of
material throughout the programme.

Research Notes Video Reflective

Task Journal

Web Resource Enrichment Infographic Discussion

Activity Forum

PROGRAMME SUMMARY
Leadership is a reflective practice that requires continuous
self-development. The online Oxford Women’s Leadership
Development Programme offers you a safe space to critically
examine your role as a leader, acknowledging your particular
leadership style and skills. Over the course of six weeks,
you’ll examine the challenges female leaders face within
the workplace and explore your unique strengths that will
enable you to lead, influence, negotiate, and conduct
difficult conversations.

OXFORD WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

You’ll learn to analyse, diagnose, and react appropriately to PROGRAMME CO-CONVENOR
your organisational context. You’ll also experience how to
navigate cultural dimensions, and explore your mentorship
capabilities. Based on an overarching programme framework
of self-acceptance, self-management, and self-development,
you’ll realise your potential as a female leader. You’ll also
Sue Dopson
be introduced to tools and resources that will provide you Rhodes Trust Professor of Organisational
with the skills and confidence to promote your personal Behaviour, Saïd Business School,
University of Oxford
development as a leader.

Sue Dopson is deputy dean

ORIENTATION MODULE of Saïd Business School, and
• Become familiar with your new virtual classroom academic director of the Oxford
• Meet your Success Team and get to know your Diploma in Organisational
fellow classmates Leadership, Oxford Strategic
Leadership programme and the
Women Transforming Leadership
MODULE 1
programme. She is also a fellow of
Accepting yourself as a leader Green Templeton College, Oxford.
Reflect on how you have led in the past and acknowledge
your abilities as a leader.
Sue is a noted specialist on
• Recognise self-acceptance as an essential part of leadership
the personal and organisational
• Discuss how leadership has been conceptualised
dimensions of leadership
and adapted over time
and transformational change,
• Identify crucible moments in your own life or career,
and her research centres on
that enabled you to grow as a leader
transformational change and
• Determine how women can effectively rise to the
knowledge exchange. Her current
challenges that they may face as leaders
projects consider women’s
• Differentiate between different styles of leadership
leadership, changing career
• Assess your own leadership styles and strengths
paths of health professionals
and what leaders need help
MODULE 2 with and coaching on.
Understanding your context
Learn how to read and diagnose context and react appropriately.
• Discuss macro changes and how they impact your
sector, your organisation, your future, and you personally
• Articulate the complexities of your organisation’s
cultural context
• Deconstruct the kind of problems you are trying to
address and the implications for you as a leader
• Assess the demands, constraints, and choices of your
role as a leader and what you can do in your context

OXFORD WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

MODULE 3
Negotiating as a leadership practice PROGRAMME CO-CONVENOR
Understand cultural dimensions in order to negotiate effectively.
• Review basic principles and frameworks for effective
negotiating
• Determine which strategies and tactics can help shape
effective negotiation
• Articulate how cultural dimensions affect negotiation Kathryn Bishop
and how to adapt accordingly Associate Fellow, Saïd Business School,
University of Oxford
• Investigate how women negotiate differently from men
and the gender barriers they may face during negotiations
Kathryn Bishop is the programme
• Assess your own personal negotiation style and skills
director of the Women
Transforming Leadership
MODULE 4 programme at Oxford Saïd. With
Becoming an influential leader over 30 years’ experience working
Recognise how to use your unique strengths to persuade with organisations undergoing
and influence. major change, in both the public
• Identify different sources of power used by leaders and the private sector, she also
to influence others directs and teaches on leadership
• Articulate how value can be created by using the right programmes for professional
sources of power as a leader service firms and multinational
• Determine different strategies for influencing and when corporations. Her background
these strategies are most effective includes IT and HR and she has
• Investigate how to conduct difficult conversations as part worked as a director, a project
of a leadership practice manager, a consultant and as a
• Reflect on your own power to influence and how you non-executive director. Kathryn
conduct difficult conversations was appointed as the first
chairman of the Welsh Revenue
Authority in April 2017.
MODULE 5
Developing as a leader: what can help you?
Gain an appreciation for self-development as a lifelong activity.
• Review frameworks and models associated with coaching
and mentoring
• Articulate how coaching and mentoring can be used
as a development tool for leaders
• Determine how best to prepare for an interview or new role
• Investigate what other methods, tools, resources,
or networks could further your development as a leader
• Recommend an action plan for self-development,
using an array of resources and approaches

OXFORD WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

MODULE 6
Imagining your future possibilities as a leader PROGRAMME CO-CONVENOR
Create a personal development plan for your future
as a leader.
• Outline future trends and predictions for the workplace
• Articulate what the future of work means for female
leaders
• Investigate how senior leaders have used lifelong Kathryn Bishop
development to transition into their leadership roles Associate Fellow, Saïd Business School,
University of Oxford
• Compile a development plan to equip yourself for your
future as a leader
Kathryn Bishop is the programme
• Reflect on your key learnings and takeaways from
director of the Women
this programme
Transforming Leadership
programme at Oxford Saïd. With
 arness your leadership style and strengths,
H over 30 years’ experience working
and earn a certificate of attendance from with organisations undergoing
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. major change, in both the public
and the private sector, she also
directs and teaches on leadership
programmes for professional
service firms and multinational
corporations. Her background
includes IT and HR and she has
worked as a director, a project
Technology and the mobile revolution
manager, a consultant and as a
are rapidly transforming financial markets, non-executive director. Kathryn
institutions, and business models. Drawing was appointed as the first
upon the expertise of leading academics chairman of the Welsh Revenue
Authority in April 2017.
and practitioners from Oxford Saïd and
colleagues from across the University our
new digital programmes, supported by
GetSmarter, will provide entrepreneurs and
executives with the insights and knowledge
necessary to navigate this changing
landscape, and adapt and progress
in their careers.
– PETER TUFANO,
DEAN AND PROFESSOR OF FINANCE AT SAÏD BUSINESS SCHOOL,
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

OXFORD WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

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Leadership
Development
Programme
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