AMA's Advanced Executive Leadership Program

Stepping into executive leadership requires a distinct set of skills, perspectives, and competencies that go well beyond general management. This training program gives you a clear picture of what separates executive leadership from other leadership roles, how to shape and sustain organizational excellence, which global competencies matter most in today's environment, and how to achieve the kind of personal mastery that defines the best leaders. You will also benefit from the shared experiences and candid insights of peers who, like you, are senior managers seeking to grow through advanced leadership development.

Who Should Attend:

Executives, directors, and managers seeking advanced leadership training to strengthen their capacity to motivate teams, inspire others, and drive measurable results.

What You Will Cover:

• Driving workplace change by addressing employee doubts and resistance head-on
• Applying and distinguishing between manager and leader roles
• Identifying and assessing your personal behavioral preferences
• Promoting organizational vision and values through ethical leadership behaviors
• Building productive working partnerships across teams and departments
• Conducting a situational analysis of work units to create organizational alignment
• Applying executive leadership concepts in a simulated business case
• Developing a concrete action plan for post-program implementation

Outline

Learning Objectives

• Engage effectively with program processes and fellow participants
• Articulate your personal learning objectives and align them with group priorities
• Build a meaningful perspective on the professional and personal experiences of your peers

Driving Change

• Understand why organizations and individuals resist change
• Use targeted tactics to drive change and promote innovation
• Apply leadership actions that create real movement in the workplace

Vision, Values, and Ethics

• Develop and articulate mission and vision statements for your organization
• Assess organizational response to prior mission and vision work
• Explain the relationship between ethics and the success of a shared vision
• Describe organizational values and plan how to promote them through ethical leadership

Role of the Leader

• Apply and reinforce the distinction between manager and leader roles
• Differentiate between learning environments and teaching environments
• Identify your behavioral preferences and adapt them to improve leadership effectiveness
• Understand the core concepts of emotional intelligence and how they support leadership

Risk, Resilience, and Alignment

• Define motivators in both reporting and non-reporting relationships
• Identify your executive leadership competencies and target areas for growth
• Assess the risk-taking culture within your organization
• Explore how risk-taking builds both individual and organizational resilience
• Identify actions that build alignment around a shared organizational vision

Turnaround Simulation

• Apply all seminar concepts in a realistic simulated case
• Connect principles of team dynamics to your actual work experience
• Recognize and reinforce successful team behaviors
• Complete a self-assessment of key learnings
• Identify strategies for immediate application upon returning to work

Action Planning

• Finalize specific actions you will take immediately following the seminar
• Strengthen the professional relationships formed with other participants
• Celebrate your completion of the program