OXCEL has introduced Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Seminars to enhance the members knowledge of key issues in leadership development. These CPD Seminars follow the 9 OXCEL Leadership Qualities that have been identified as pertinent to assess the level of an individuals achievement.
Leading and Developing Others
This LQ module seeks to engage participants with multiple perspectives for understanding and leading their own and others’ behaviour within organisations, with a view to developing organisational capability through strengthened internal dynamics. Among the approaches taken are the macro perspectives important in leadership and change, particularly the relationship between behaviour and organisational structure and the psychosocial, political and cultural/symbolic aspects of organisations. Other topics covered include individual differences, group and terms, power, learning, interpersonal communication, perception and ethics.
Developing Capability and Capacity
This LQ module explores the practices and philosophies of leadership and motivation, encouraging participants to challenge conventional approaches. It evaluates theoretical and empirical contributions to these important areas of management and encourages participants to develop a style of workplace learning through which their own leadership and motivational practices can grow. It aims to develop and appreciation of the role and value of leadership in organisations both domestically and abroad.
Influencing
Business success is influence. Influence gives you a voice in your industry. Influence gives you clients, business partners and team members that listen. This LQ module can help you develop skills in overcoming obstacles, and discover influencing strategies to help you build profitable relationships within and outside your organisation. Participants will learn how to expand their self-awareness, emotional intelligence and intuitive intelligence to boost effectiveness in their communication methods and also learn how to adopt a more strategic approach in responding assertively when dealing with aggressive or submissive people. Other highlights include tactics to positively influence and persuade individuals, achieving confidence in dealing with conflict, difficult situations and people, and establishing leadership credibility when applying swift decision-making and problem-solving techniques.
Making Sense of Complexity and Ambiguity
This LQ module focuses on the activity of leadership in challenging and difficult situations. Leadership is an essential process to ensure that groups, communities, organisations and societies address their most important adaptive challenges so that progress can be made. The module introduces participants to a leadership model for mobilising groups and factions to confront and deal with problematic realities, begin to learn new ways of thinking and behaving, and steadily change their values and accomplish worthwhile tasks. The material of the class is relevant for those seeking to have a positive impact in organisations, government or society. The module will be primarily discussion oriented. Various experiential exercises and/or cases may be employed to illustrate certain principles and concepts.
Integrity
Integrity involves the three R’s: Respect for self; Respect for others; and Responsibility for all your actions. How does someone develop integrity as part of his or her character? Where does integrity come from? The quality of integrity is not a trait that we are born with; rather it is “learned” as we go through life. Not all (great) leaders come from backgrounds that would indicate their level of integrity either, instead, during the process of learning, integrity of the individual is developed. As with fingerprints, no two people have the exact value system that we live by. This LQ module explores your own personal journey of how you can set personal standards of integrity first, and then for others within your circle of influence.
Ethics
Is being moral the same as being ethical? Can we be unfair, yet act justly? This LQ module explores the complexity of understanding ethical dilemmas as they arise in day-to-day business. It seeks to enable participants to make more informed and reasonable contributions t ethical decision-making. Cases are used to analyse ethical issues in a changing world that can be applied to the areas of: human resources, marketing, environment, international business and professionalism. Specific issues are investigated in the module, for example, fraud and corruption, corporate social responsibility, and the psychology of moral reasoning. The module is highly interactive and uses cases from real situations that face business owners.
Ceremony
Ceremony is aptly described as formal activity prescribed by custom, ritual, or religious belief. Ceremonies serve to unite members of a group, strengthen shared beliefs, celebrate achievements or milestones in the lives of individuals or groups, or facilitate discussions. Music or dancing is often incorporated into the ceremonies of many societies. The basic objective of the LQ module is for participants to develop insight into what’s required to exercise ceremony in the context of business both at the local and international level. Participants will gain an understanding of what are the accepted norms and taboos prevalent in different countries, cultures and ethnicities.
Leading Change
The LQ module has been designed to provide the framework and skills for leaders who are likely to be involved in strategic initiatives within their organisations. This is a particularly important area of expertise, linking the concerns of strategic leadership with those of more directly ‘people-focused’ side of leadership. The basic premise underlying this module is that the capacity to implement strategic change is a critical complementary skill to the capacity to conceive new strategic directions.
Handling Cultural Diversity
The objective of this LQ Module is to equip participants with the knowledge and skills which are necessary for them to interact effectively with members of cultures other than their own, specifically in the context of international business relations. The LQ module is concerned with considering the issues and problems of managing in different cultures, in particular, the ‘people problems’ that invariably arise in international business relationships.
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