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Oxford Saïd: Oxford Leading Through Uncertainty and Disruption: Building Resilient Organisations Programme

Discover how organizational resilience can generate a competitive advantage and long-term sustainability for your business.

Discover how organizational resilience can generate a competitive advantage and long-term sustainability for your business.

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6 weeks
7–10 hours per week
Starts Feb 26, 2025
Enroll by Mar 4, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

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6 weeks
7–10 hours per week
Starts Feb 26, 2025
Enroll by Mar 4, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

About this Course

The turbulent nature of the modern business environment requires a strategic perspective on sustainable solutions to ensure an organization’s survival and success. By developing resilience, leaders can enable their enterprises to effectively anticipate, prepare, and respond to uncertainty — allowing them to not only bounce back but bounce forward and thrive.

Learn how to navigate disruption at an individual, business, and systemic level with the Oxford Leading Through Uncertainty and Disruption: Building Resilient Organisations Programme. Over the course of six weeks, you'll focus on Programme Director Eleanor Murray's exclusive 6S framework, and explore how to build resilience within the concepts of self, strategy, structures, social elements, supply chains, and systems. Using this framework, you’ll develop the skills to integrate a holistic approach to resilience throughout your organization's business strategy and operations, identify ways to build resilient relationships with stakeholders, and lead effectively through disruptions.

Gain the support structures and networks to strengthen your ability to thrive as a leader through long-term volatility, and walk away with a strategic plan for building resilience to ensure the sustainability and longevity of your organization.

This programme is designed for leaders across industries, in private business, public organizations, non-profits, and governments, with the need to enhance their organization’s ability to effectively adapt and respond to uncertainty. Those in senior leadership or C-suite roles who need to remain competitive and want to ensure their organization’s longevity will benefit from this programme. Additionally, these professionals will discover how to leverage disruption for new opportunities and ultimately strengthen their organization’s ability to thrive in the face of new challenges. Human resource managers, resilience professionals, and organizational design leaders who are responsible for improving the operational resilience of their companies will also gain valuable tools and techniques to aid them in these objectives.

Course curriculum

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Improve your organization’s preparedness as you work through the weekly modules of this online programme.

Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus

Module 1: Self: Advancing resilient leadership

Module 2: Strategy: Developing your strategic resilience

Module 3: Structures: Building operational resilience

Module 4: Social: Reinforcing social resilience

Module 5: Supply chains: Strengthening supply chain resilience

Module 6: Systems: Maximizing systems-wide resilience

About the certificate

Gain the knowledge to build long-term organisational resilience and earn an official certificate of attendance from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with a digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the programme handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the programme.

Your certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you digitally upon successful completion of the program, as per the stipulated requirements.

Some facts about the subject

70%

The percentage of CXOs who lack confidence in their organization’s ability to pivot and adapt to disruptive events.

Deloitte (2021).

52%

The reported decrease in burnout experienced by leaders with higher resilience.

BetterUp (2020).

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