AMA's Advanced Executive Leadership Program

Executive leadership training provides the essential foundation for achieving your full leadership potential. This seminar helps you understand what distinguishes executive leadership from other leadership roles, how to cultivate organizational excellence, which global competencies matter most for success in today's environment, and how to develop personal mastery in your leadership approach. You will benefit from collaborative learning alongside experienced peers and senior managers who, like you, are seeking comprehensive solutions and advanced expertise through executive leadership training.

Who Should Attend:

Executives, directors, and senior managers who seek to strengthen their leadership capabilities and enhance their ability to motivate, inspire, and drive organizational results through others.

What You Will Cover:

• Creating meaningful change in organizational environments by implementing targeted actions that address employee concerns and resistance
• Contrasting and applying manager versus leader competencies and frameworks
• Assessing and identifying your individual behavioral preferences and patterns
• Promoting organizational mission, vision, and values through ethical and authentic leadership behaviors
• Building strong "virtual partnerships" and distributed team dynamics in modern work environments
• Conducting strategic analysis of organizational units and departments to create alignment
• Applying executive leadership principles within realistic business simulations and case studies
• Creating actionable development plans for immediate implementation

Course Outline and Learning Objectives:

Program Objectives

• Engage productively with the seminar's core frameworks and processes
• Clarify your individual learning objectives and work with the group to identify collective priorities
• Build meaningful professional connections with fellow participants and gain insights into each other's perspectives

Driving Change

• Understand the fundamental reasons why organizations and individuals resist change
• Learn and apply specific leadership tactics to facilitate change and foster innovation
• Implement concrete leadership actions that enable organizational change

Vision, Values, and Ethics

• Develop and articulate clarified mission and vision statements aligned with your organization
• Evaluate organizational responses to existing mission and vision work
• Examine the critical relationship between ethical leadership and effective vision execution
• Define organizational values and their strategic importance
• Design and implement workplace strategies for communicating organizational values through ethical leadership

Role of the Leader

• Explore and reinforce the distinction between manager and leader roles in organizational contexts
• Understand the differences between learning-focused and teaching-focused environments
• Assess your personal behavioral preferences and actively develop strategies to increase your leadership effectiveness
• Master the foundational concepts that define and develop emotional intelligence (EQ)
• Identify and cultivate your personal sources of emotional and mental energy

Risk, Resilience, and Alignment

• Identify motivational drivers across different types of working relationships
• Evaluate your executive leadership competencies and target specific areas for growth
• Assess the organizational culture around risk-taking and innovation
• Understand how taking strategic risks contributes to building individual and organizational resilience
• Develop action strategies for creating alignment around organizational and departmental vision

Turnaround: The Simulation

• Apply seminar concepts within a realistic and complex simulated business environment
• Connect team dynamics theories to your own organizational experience
• Recognize and analyze the hallmarks of high-performing team behaviors
• Evaluate your personal learning outcomes from the seminar experience
• Identify and commit to practical strategies for implementation in your workplace
• Assess your advancement in applying collaborative decision-making skills

Polish the Plan

• Finalize and commit to specific leadership actions you will implement immediately upon completing the seminar
• Strengthen the professional relationships and connections established with colleagues throughout the program
• Recognize and celebrate your completion of this intensive executive leadership development experience