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Being a leader can be a lonely business, with dilemmas and challenges that need some fresh insight. Now in its fourth year, our Scale Up Network offers business leaders the opportunity to share challenges and co-create solutions with other leaders from different industries.
As a business, do you know the benefit of your leaders developing coaching skills? We’d be delighted to speak to you about our upcoming programme, Leader as Coach.
Oxford Brookes Business School has been shortlisted for Business School of the Year in the annual Times Higher Education (THE) Awards 2023.
Six honorary graduates are set to receive their degrees at ceremonies at Oxford Brookes University this week (4-9 September 2023).
Experts from a range of companies and organisations will be sharing their top tips and experience with students at Oxford Brookes Business School.
Former Vice-Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University Professor Sir Clive Booth has laid a foundation stone to mark the redevelopment of the Clive Booth Student Village that will benefit students and the local community.
Oxford Brookes Racing have unveiled their all-new Formula Student racing car for the 2023 season in a bid to secure a record eighth UK title at Silverstone next month.
An initiative to find solutions to the gender gap in STEM researchers who become business leaders is taking place at Oxford Brookes University.
Students from Oxford Brookes Business School demonstrated their entrepreneurial prowess by pitching their ideas for business ventures at an event inspired by the TV show Dragons’ Den.
Universities and spin-out companies should be reviewing their general position in relation to intellectual property ownership in light of the court’s decision in the recent case of Oxford University Innovations v Oxford Nanoimaging 2022.
I read a LinkedIn post recently that reassured business owners that if they’d managed to keep their businesses going during recession, Brexit, COVID and the cost-of-living crisis that they deserved a huge pat on the back and shouldn’t ‘beat themselves up’. Easier said than done when costs are rising and doing business seems to get harder rather than easier, but the sentiment was well-placed.
Nobody likes a ‘know it all’ and let’s face it, there’s no such thing. At the other end of the scale, many of us don’t create enough time to take on board new ideas, innovation and creativity in whatever format. How many times have you been recommended to read a book, get sent the link, go on Amazon, maybe even buy it but it just sits on your bookshelf? Come to think of it, as an aside, just think about that for a second….I wonder what the actual percentage of books purchased are actually read? Frightening thought!
In this edition of the CEO Challenge Jacqui Canton, CEO of Abingdon & Witney College, explains more about the challenges she and her colleagues are facing, the benefits of apprenticeships and T-Levels and how businesses can engage with the college.
Thought-provoking music, talks, performances and much more are part of Oxford Brookes University’s Creative Industries Festival which takes place next month.
