Voluntary and Community Leader Oxfordshire

Discover and develop the fundamental skills and behaviours that can ensure success at a grassroots, community level. Get to know yourself, your unique purpose and the impact you have on others better, to improve communication skills and relationships, and prevent burnout and anxiety for yourself and your teams. Through these skills and a supportive network, the programme will empower you to develop revitalised, agile and resilient leadership, to recover post-lockdown and manage through the cost of living crisis.

Boost your confidence in your leadership abilities to grow and scale your projects/organisations and ultimately impact. You'll start to develop into a self-actualised leader with the confidence and resilience to navigate complexity, uncertainty and change.

Meet other community leaders and develop a strengthened network of supportive peers. Investing in relationships with your cohort enables you to create a joined-up vision that can inspire and motivate others. Past cohorts have found the support they receive from their peers during and after the programme essential in their journey to becoming a better leader. We encourage the development of strong relations with your peers for long lasting advice, guidance, and friendship.

Take on challenges you are currently facing in your project or community with practical, long-lasting solutions.

A four-week hybrid learning course which uses a self-reflective model to guide participants through the core components of social leadership development. Participants will finish the programme with a long-term Leadership Development Plan, ready to make the most of the other elements of the programme. For more information on Discover, please click here.

The programme may change depending on the needs and skills identified. However, core workshops may feature topics such as: Focused Strategist; Resilience; Courageous Changemaker; Passionate Advocate; Empowering Enabler; Leader As Coach; Generous Collaborator; Inspiring Communicator Imposter Syndrome; Building Networks for Social Change. Workshops offer a great opportunity to hear from a social leader or professional coach about their own experience of leading and key lessons, failures and tips they learned along the way. They provide an immersive experience, deep diving into key content, and strengthening connections between participants.

A space will be created for leaders from the Global Majority to come together to discuss topics such as the impact of race in their work, areas of influence, kinship building, resilience, health and wellbeing, and career expansion.

Peer Learning Circles offer another opportunity for the cohort to discuss their learning and reflections on the modular content. In creating a regular space where participants can share knowledge and offer peer support, the cohort will likely build strong bonds and continue to meet beyond the programme’s end. Appropriate speakers could be invited to sessions.

This powerful personality profiling system provides a unique portrait of who you are, helping you increase your self-awareness, reveal hidden potential and help you understand how you behave under pressure. This includes a full-day training session.

The programme is heavily-steered by participants, and the change they want to create within their community. All cohorts will be brought together for the Peer Innovation Challenge, held as an in-person ‘Hackathon’, to work together towards the positive change they collectively seek to create.