Future Leaders Programme 7
Preparing for Service Leadership
Module One
Tuesday 13 – Friday 16 March 2012
Milton Hill House, Oxford
Programme
Objectives for Module One:
The Future Leaders Programme Module One will aim to:
 Extend your awareness of yourself and of your impact on others
 Deepen your understanding of people and how to lead them effectively
 Explore your personal, leadership and work values
 Identify and capitalise on your strengths and personal preferences in leading others
 Gain a deeper appreciation of the personal challenges of leading
 Experience the power and vulnerability of personal disclosure and visibility
 Build a range of concepts, strategies and skills to enable and enhance performance and to sustain
you through the ups and downs of realising your vision
 Appreciate the complexity entailed in realisation of goals at personal, team and organisational levels
 Inquire into learning about leadership and how to learn through reflective practice
 Map your leadership journey by identifying your personal leadership challenges that will add critical
value to your development
 Refine your project plan
 Articulate your leadership signature
Day One, Tuesday 13 March 2012
Introductions and culture setting
16.30
Arrival: registration and refreshments
17.00
Welcome and introductions
Dr Paul Gentle, Director of Programmes, Leadership Foundation
Dr Mark Jenner, Associate, Leadership Foundation
Shirley Wardell, Associate, Leadership Foundation
17.15
Thinking environment introduction
 Ground rules for the Programme
18.15
Refreshment break
18.30
The leadership development journey: Some ways of mapping it
Gary Davison, Assistant Director, Service Delivery, Newcastle University (FLP Cohort 6) and
Christina Lewis, Library and Learning Services Customer Services Manager,
University for the Creative Arts (FLP Cohort 6)
19.30
Refreshment break
20.00
Dinner in learning sets: personal symbol stories
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The Leadership Foundation reserves the right to make changes to the programme at any time.
Future Leaders Programme 7
Preparing for Service Leadership
Module One
Tuesday 13 – Friday 16 March 2012
Milton Hill House, Oxford
Day Two, Wednesday 14 March 2012
Self-Awareness and Leadership
08.45
Learning to lead – leading the learning: Action learning sets
 Questioning and leadership development
 Introducing action learning, reflective practice and learning conversations
 How will we learn together? Sharing, inquiring, practice – in learning sets
Dr Paul Gentle
10.30
Refreshment break
11.00
The language of leadership: Clarifying the leadership challenge and personal inquiry
 What does excellent leadership look like? Metaphors, models and concepts
 The Leaders Journey, a developmental perspective
 Foundations of leadership: consciousness, values, relationship, skills and talents
Dr Mark Jenner
12.30
Lunch
13.15
Presence and identity/leadership and values: Self-awareness, self-concept and
self-leadership
 Who am I? Identity, sub-personalities and roles, self-concept
 Wise leader within, self leadership/ internal compass, values and personal guiding vision
 What do I stand for?
 How do I show it?
Shirley Wardell
14.45
Refreshment break
15.05
Personality, team role preference and leadership style: Your preferences
 Temperament, preferences and styles
 Team Management Profile
Dr Mark Jenner
16.30
Action learning set work and reflection
19.30
Dinner
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The Leadership Foundation reserves the right to make changes to the programme at any time.
Future Leaders Programme 7
Preparing for Service Leadership
Module One
Tuesday 13 – Friday 16 March 2012
Milton Hill House, Oxford
Day Three, Thursday 15 March 2012
Project, people and organisation
08.45
Work-based projects
 Success criteria
 Increasing the impact of your project
Dr Paul Gentle
10.30
Refreshment break
11.00
Leadership as relationship
 How do you learn about yourself in relationships?
 What factors affect relationships?
 The leader-follower relationship – why should anybody follow you?
Shirley Wardell
12.30
Lunch
13.15
Leadership as power and influence
 Auditing sources of power and influence
 Influencing and communicating approaches
 Learning from seeking and receiving feedback
Dr Paul Gentle
14.45
Refreshment break
15.05
Organisational culture
Dr Mark Jenner
16.30
Reflection, individual conversations with action learning set facilitators
19.30
Dinner and networking
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The Leadership Foundation reserves the right to make changes to the programme at any time.
Future Leaders Programme 7
Preparing for Service Leadership
Module One
Tuesday 13 – Friday 16 March 2012
Milton Hill House, Oxford
Day Four, Friday 16 March 2012
Preparing for the journey
08.45
Peer coaching: Developing coaching skills and relationships
 Peer coaching – contracting and practice
 Reviewing your coaching practice
 Plenary review
Shirley Wardell
10.30
Refreshment break
11.00
My leadership development: Where am I now/next steps – in peer coaching groups
 Self-assessment: What developmental goals and priorities can be identified?
 Personal development priorities, commitments and action plans
 Preparing my stump speech
Dr Mark Jenner
12.30
Lunch
13.15
Personal leadership story
Professor Mary Malcolm, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Bedfordshire
14.15
Leadership styles: My signature and commitment: Stump speech
 Individual presentation in large group: leadership signature and responses
 What kind of leader I am going to be? How I am going to be/become such a leader?
15.15
Refreshment break
15.30
Next steps
 360 arrangement
 Action learning set
 Preparation for module two
15.50
Review and evaluation
16.00
Close
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The Leadership Foundation reserves the right to make changes to the programme at any time.