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Oxford Saïd: Oxford Senior Leadership Executive Programme

Drive long-term business success with an aligned purpose, strategy, and team.

Drive long-term business success with an aligned purpose, strategy, and team.

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23 weeks
7–10 hours per week
Starts Feb 12, 2025
Enroll by Feb 18, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

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23 weeks
7–10 hours per week
Starts Feb 12, 2025
Enroll by Feb 18, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

About this Course

Duration : 6 months (Including orientation and 2 week-long breaks)

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The demand for highly skilled leaders is growing in today’s fast-evolving business landscape. Executives need a holistic skill set to advance their careers and build resilient, high-performing organisations.

The Oxford Senior Leadership Executive Programme combines content from three leading online programmes from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, to provide you with leadership, strategy, and resilience skills to ensure your organisation thrives.

If you want to build resilient, high-performing organisations, this programme is for you. Over 15 weeks, you’ll learn how to align purpose with strategy, train teams to anticipate and respond to uncertainty, and drive long-term business success.

The Oxford Senior Leadership Executive Programme is certified by the United Kingdom CPD Certification Service and may be applicable to individuals who are members of, or are associated with, UK-based professional bodies. The programme has an estimated 200 hours of learning.

Note: should you wish to claim CPD activity, the onus is on you. Oxford Saïd and GetSmarter accept no responsibility, and cannot be held responsible, for the claiming or validation of hours or points.

Course curriculum

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Gain skills in purpose-driven leadership, resilience, and strategic alignment as you work through the weekly modules of this online programme.

Programme orientation: Welcome to your Online Campus

Section I: Executive leadership

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Over eight weeks, you’ll refine and develop your leadership style and purpose to align with your organisation’s strategic focus. You’ll also improve your ability to lead authentically, manage high-performance teams, explore core leadership themes, and become a driving force for change in your company.

Section II: Enterprise leadership

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Following a one-week programme break, you’ll discover the importance of strategic alignment in business. Over six weeks, you’ll identify your organisation’s purpose, assess what it needs to succeed, and create a compelling vision for its future.

Section III: Leading through uncertainty and disruption: Building resilient organisations

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Following a one-week programme break, you’ll learn how to lead through uncertainty and disruption. Over six weeks, you’ll reflect on your own capacity for resilience, explore how to integrate resilience into organisational structures, and develop a strategic plan for enhancing an organisation as a business leader.

About the certificate

Learn about strategic leadership and earn an executive certificate 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 your 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

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The number of new winners, in Canada’s Best Managed Companies awards program, who consider a clearly defined organisational purpose a contributing factor to their success.

Deloitte (May, 2021).

Resilience

The number-one power skill to develop in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, France, and Australia.

LinkedIn Learning (2023).

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