Leadership Courses
Tailored To Education
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A bespoke 'menu' of modules that can be put together in any order to make a unique course to support your pupils, teachers, managers, and leaders
This course can be delivered:
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In Person
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Full Remote Learning
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A Bespoke Combination
Face To Face / Blended Training:
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These courses are delivered with an expert instructor standing infront of you for all, or part of the course. We have highlighted some of our most popular courses.
Live-Virtual / Online Training:
A live-virtual course is delivered live with an expert trainer remotely online. Our online courses are stand-alone and can be completed at a time that suits you
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Duration
A 1 Day Course
Leave With A Toolkit
The aim of this course is that you leave with practical tools to help you lead your team
Delivery
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Face to Face
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Live Virtual
Group Size
This course can run for groups from between 6 and 20 people.
Oodles Training offers a dynamic 'New to Middle Management' course specifically designed for the education sector. This programme is perfect for school staff who are either new to, or aspiring to, middle management positions such as Heads of Year, Heads of Department, or managers of support roles.
Built from our comprehensive 'menu of management modules', this course can be tailored to suit your school's specific needs, ensuring maximum relevance. Key areas typically covered include:
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Exploring the behaviours of an outstanding and inspiring leader.
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Managing people with confidence.
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Navigating challenging conversations effectively.
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Mastering day-to-day team management by perfecting the basics.
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Leading with resilience in the demanding educational environment.
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Equip your emerging leaders with the essential skills to excel and drive success within your school.
Duration
A 1 Day Course
Leave With A Toolkit
The aim of this course is that you leave with practical tools to help you lead your team
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Face to Face
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Live Virtual
Group Size
This course can run for groups from between 6 and 20 people.
Oodles Training's 'Moving Up to Senior Leadership' course is specifically designed for education professionals aspiring to senior leadership positions within schools, colleges, and universities. We recognise that the skills for strategic, inspirational leadership differ from effective department management, and this programme is crafted to bridge that gap.
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This course combines practical discussions, relevant theories, and proven techniques to help you develop strategic thinking and avoid common leadership pitfalls. You'll explore how to establish positive school cultures at all levels and your crucial role in supporting them. We'll also cover integrating coaching into everyday conversations and how to create compelling visions that genuinely engage hearts and minds, driving positive behaviour across your institution.
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Built from our comprehensive 'menu of management modules', this programme is fully tailorable to your specific leadership development needs, ensuring maximum relevance for your journey into senior leadership within the education sector.
Duration
A 1 Day Course
Leave With A Toolkit
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Better understanding of how you add value
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An understanding of how to contribute effectively
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A sense of how assessment centres work
Delivery
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Face to Face
Group Size
This course can run for groups from between 15 and 200 people.
Oodles Training's "Mastering Teamwork in a Mock Assessment Centre" is a dynamic, practical day specifically designed to equip 6th-form students with vital employability skills for the real world. Tailored for the education sector, this course immerses students in realistic scenarios, mirroring the challenges of professional assessment centres.
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Students will tackle a series of increasingly complex problems, learning to navigate real-world constraints such as managing time, adhering to budgets, and ensuring quality control. Through collaborative problem-solving, they'll develop essential teamwork, communication, and decision-making abilities. After each challenge, a focused review session encourages reflection, allowing students to refine their approach and apply learnings immediately, ensuring continuous improvement.
This highly popular day not only helps new students bond and integrate within schools and universities but also provides them with tangible, transferable skills crucial for future academic success, higher education applications, and career readiness.
Duration
A Bespoke Course
Leave With A Toolkit
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Better understanding of how to motivate others
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Sense of responsibility to role model best practice
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Set of tools to help you pland and deliver effectively
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Sense that you have been invested in
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Face to Face
Group Size
This course can run for groups from between 6 and 20 people
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Oodles Training offers bespoke Prefect and Team Captain Leadership Training. These courses are expertly designed for school prefects, team captains, heads of year, monitors, and other student leaders who are stepping into roles of added responsibility.
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We delve into the fundamental basics of leadership, equipping your students with a practical set of skills to excel throughout their time in-post. Through fun, interactive sessions, students will gain tools to brainstorm, plan, and effectively implement initiatives, ensuring they leave a positive and lasting mark in their roles. Critically, the training also provides essential strategies to help these young leaders look after their own well-being as they navigate new challenges.
As a fully bespoke course, our Prefect and Team Captain training is meticulously planned to fit your school's exact needs and specific leadership roles. Start a conversation with us today to explore how we can empower your student leaders.
Duration
A Bespoke Course lasting between a single session and 7 days
Leave With A Toolkit
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Better sense of who you are as a leader
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Confidence in your ability to lead
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A toolkbox of styles to ensure you are effective across many situations
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memorable experience, playing lots of games, each with a different focus
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Face to Face
Group Size
This course can run for groups from between 6 and 20 people
This bespoke course is a great way for young people to 'play' with leadership. Through a series of games and challenges, they will have many opportunities to lead projects and tasks in different ways to explore how to lead effectively. With a focus on practical tasks, with short, sharp reviews after, students will get to explore leadership. They will leave with confidence in their ability to lead and some practical skills to take forward.
Menu Of Management Modules
We know that every school and organisation is unique, and therefore your needs are unique. Let's use this menu of modules to build you something tailored to your exact needs!
Defining My Unique Style Of Leadership
In this module, we look at some of the different styles of leadership, where they are really effective and what their pitfalls are. The aim is you leave with a toolkit of different styles to make sure you are really impactful in every scenario.
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Balancing Your Role As A Leader
Leaders in schools and educational establishments are often pulled in many different directions. Here, we'll look at how to balance your role to make sure you are effective in prioritising your time between the day-to-day management and future, strategic planning
Wellbeing - The Science Behind The Hype
Sometimes, knowing things are backed by science helps us to engage with them. Here, we'll look at some tips and techniques to support mental wellbeing and the science behind how and why they really work
Engaging Your Team
Working with highly engaged colleagues is exciting and energising. Here we'll look at how and why people engage in their work and how we can help ensure our colleagues and those in our teams are engaged and motivated.
Communicating Effectively With Your Team
Good communication is key in any team. In busy school teams, ensuring you are clear and effective is even more essential in a busy fast-paced environment. Here, we'll look at how to ensure you engage and motivate your team through great communication.
Coaching Your Team To Grow
Coaching is a great way to help people engage and be really creative in their thinking and problem-solving. Here we'll look at developing some simple, effective skills and how to utilize them in a school setting.
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Managing Stress & Wellbeing In Education
Teachers and educaors are often great at looking after the wellbeing of others but less good at looking after themselves. This session offers some quick, effective tips and techniques to help you look after yourself, in turn ensuring you can effectively look after others.
The Performers Toolbox
There is a lot we can learn about high-performing teams from the world of sports. Here, we'll dip into some sports psychology and explore how those who perform at the very highest level maintain motivation and focus, before exploring how that fits into our world of education
Creating High Performing Teams
There is a marked difference between watching a team work together and a high-performing team excel. Here we'll look at some of the factors that create high-performing teams and how we can use them in our world of education to ensure the teams we work in are highly effective
Leading Change
Times of change can cause a range of reactions. Being able to preempt these and manage people's emotions through times of change will help ensure people feel supported, engaged, and excited by the change, as opposed to being resistant.