AMA's Advanced Executive Leadership Program

Executive leadership training is the essential first step toward achieving your full potential as a leader in your organization. This course provides a comprehensive understanding of what distinguishes executive leadership from other leadership roles, how to develop organizational excellence, which global competencies are critical for success in today's business environment, and how to master your own personal leadership capabilities. You will benefit from the collective insights and real-world experiences of fellow participants, senior managers, and executives like yourself who are seeking advanced executive leadership training and practical solutions to today's leadership challenges.

Ideal For:

Executives, directors, and managers seeking executive leadership training to strengthen their capabilities, enhance their ability to motivate and inspire team members, and drive measurable organizational results

Topics Covered:

• How to drive workplace change by addressing and overcoming employee concerns and resistance
• Distinguishing between manager and leader responsibilities and mindsets
• Methods for identifying and assessing your personal behavioral preferences and style
• Promoting organizational vision and values through ethical and authentic leadership behaviors
• Creating effective virtual partnerships and remote collaboration in distributed work environments
• Conducting comprehensive situation analysis across various work units to achieve organizational alignment
• Applying executive leadership concepts in realistic business case simulations
• Developing actionable implementation plans for immediate application

Detailed Outline

Learning Objectives and Program Overview

• Effectively engage with the program structure, processes, and seminar components
• Articulate your personal learning objectives and align with the group's highest priorities
• Develop a deeper understanding of fellow participants, their professional backgrounds, and personal approaches

Driving Organizational Change

• Understand the primary reasons organizations and people resist change
• Apply specific and proven tactics to drive change and encourage innovation throughout your work environment
• Implement leadership actions that effectively facilitate and support workplace change initiatives

Vision, Values, and Ethical Leadership

• Develop and articulate clarified mission and vision statements for your workplace
• Evaluate organizational response to existing mission and vision efforts
• Recognize the critical relationship between ethical behavior and vision success
• Define and communicate organizational values clearly and consistently
• Create and execute a comprehensive workplace approach for embedding organizational values through ethical leadership

The Role and Responsibilities of Leaders

• Apply concepts of manager versus leader roles, reinforced and contextualized from your prior leadership experiences
• Distinguish between a traditional learning environment and a transformational teaching environment
• Assess your personal behavioral preferences and proactively adjust them to increase leadership effectiveness
• Learn the fundamental concepts that define and strengthen Emotional Intelligence
• Identify and cultivate personal sources of emotional energy and resilience

Risk, Resilience, and Organizational Alignment

• Identify key motivators in both direct reporting and matrix relationship structures
• Assess your executive leadership competencies and focus areas for targeted improvement
• Evaluate the risk-taking climate and culture within your organization
• Explore how risk management contributes to building individual and organizational resilience
• Design and implement specific actions to build alignment around organizational vision

Turnaround Simulation

• Apply all seminar concepts within a comprehensive and realistic business case simulation
• Connect team dynamics concepts to your actual professional experience
• Identify and reinforce successful team behaviors and decision-making approaches
• Conduct a self-assessment to evaluate learning outcomes and seminar impact
• Develop specific strategies for applying new skills and knowledge back at work
• Assess your progress in developing team decision-making and collaboration skills

Action Planning and Network Building

• Finalize concrete, specific action steps to implement immediately following the seminar
• Strengthen and extend the network of professional relationships and friendships formed during the program
• Celebrate the successful completion of this transformational program and your growth as a leader