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Making the Transition from Staff Member to Supervisor

American Management Association @ 205 N Michigan Ave , Chicago, IL

Empower yourself with the skills needed to transition from staff member to supervisor in this high-impact seminar at the American Management Association. Learn how to avoid common pitfalls, manage people effectively, and develop a personalized game plan for success. Gain confidence and know-how to hit the ground running and bring your best self to the job.

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Moving from an Operational Manager to Strategic Leader

Unleash your potential as a strategic leader with the skills to inspire innovation, influence stakeholders, and drive your team toward success. Enhance your managerial capabilities with this transformative seminar at the American Management Association.

  • All levels
  • 21 and older
  • $2,795
  • 205 N Michigan Ave , Chicago, IL
  • 15 hours over 2 sessions

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  • $2,795
  • American Management Association @ 205 N Michigan Ave 10th floor, Chicago, IL 60601
  • 15 hours over 2 sessions
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What you'll learn in this change management training:

Learn to become an innovator, a persuasive player and a champion of strategic change. This seminar gives you the right practice to close the gap between where you are now and where you want to be. You'll conduct SWOT analysis, leverage key prospects for strategic opportunities and inspire risk taking and innovation.

Make your mark. This training course gives you the skills to add value to your organization and move your team forward decisively.

Who Should Attend:

Managers with fewer than five years of management experience who want to move into a more strategic role.

How you will benefit:

  • Inspire and direct your team to greater readiness and competitiveness
  • Use strategic thinking to add value to your organization by understanding the needs and expectations of your customers
  • Anticipate and innovate strategies to link strategic vision to core capabilities
  • Recognize opportunities to influence and create strategic alliances
  • Use strategic thinking to identify key strengths and weaknesses in your work group
  • Encourage and support risk taking and innovation at all levels
  • Develop persuasive skills to sell your strategic ideas

What you will cover:

Developing and Balancing Operational and Strategic Management Skills

  • Establish a working definition of operational management
  • Explore the key attributes of today’s strategic leaders

Creating a Strategic Frame of Reference

  • Understand the key components of the strategic leadership model
  • Develop a strategic leader’s approach for your own work environment

Understanding Your Current Operational Mission: Your Team, Your Customers and Your Competitors

  • Strategic thinking: moving from a limited context to a broader view
  • Understand how to apply a SWOT analysis to your team
  • Create a mission statement defining the operational reality of your work group

Developing a Strategic Vision: Moving from What Is to What If

  • How to identify priority issues to create your strategic advantage
  • Encourage innovative solutions
  • Prepare a draft of a vision statement

Making Your Vision a Reality: Influencing Key Stakeholders

  • Develop their persuasive skills
  • Explore a range of options for influencing others

Your Personal Plan: Developing and Selling Your Vision of the Future

  • Communication strategies to sell your strategic plan
  • Conduct key conversations to encourage innovation and risk taking

Course Outline:

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  • Encourage All Managers and Employees to Think Strategically
  • Encourage All Employees to Share in Developing and Working Toward a Strategic Vision of the Future for Their Organization to Be Successful
  • Encourage Participants to Continually Ask Themselves, “What Can I Do to Contribute?” and, As a Work Group or an Organization, “Where Are We Going?”

LESSON ONE

Developing and Managing Your Operational Management and Strategic Leadership

  • Define Operational Management
  • Define Attributes of Strategic Leaders
  • Determine How to Balance Your Skills
  • Identify Your Current Skills

LESSON TWO

Creating a Strategic Frame of Reference

  • Describe the Strategic Frame of Reference
  • Define Key Outputs
  • Develop a Strategic Leader’s Approach

 Understanding Your Current Operational Mission

  • Clarify the Purpose of Your Work Group
  • Draft a Mission Statement
  • Create a SWOT Analysis

LESSON THREE

Developing a Strategic Vision: Moving from “What Is” to “What If”

  • Assess Customer Needs, Wants, and Expectations
  • Determine an Approach for Developing Customer Data
  • Use an Importance/Performance Matrix
  • Create Linkage Between the Mission and Vision
  • Describe the Power of Vision

LESSON FOUR

Making Your Vision a Reality: Influencing Innovation

  • Use Persuasive Skills
  • Describe Influencing Options
  • Assess Your Ability to Encourage Innovation
  • Conduct Five Key Conversations

Your Personal Plan

  • Complete a Strategic Frame of Reference
  • Prepare to Communicate Your Mission and Vision Statements
  • Identify and Practice a Key Conversation You Intend to Have Upon Your Return to Work
  • Consolidate Your Personal Plan of Action 

Refund Policy

For Classroom, Live Online, Express Skills Courses and Webinar programs, you may transfer to a future session, send someone to take your place, or cancel for a 5% fee up to 23 days prior to your program.

If you provide AMA with less than 23 days’ notice, or fail to attend, you will be liable for the entire program fee.

Programs included in AMA On Demand offerings are not eligible for substitution, transfer, cancellation, return, or refund. We appreciate that this is an important investment for you and your company and would like to accommodate your needs the best we can.

Please email us at [email protected]

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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