Developing Executive Leadership Seminar # 2501

Deepen your self-awareness with executive leadership training and empower your staff to improve performance!

Optimize your company’s performance as well as your own career with executive leadership training. To exhibit real executive leadership, you must be a visionary, a trailblazer, a strategist, a communicator, a coach, a diplomat and a politician. The world’s most successful leaders are able to focus on the big picture and uphold high standards while wearing many hats.

This intensive three-day executive leadership training program combines proven-in-action techniques with peer interaction and insights from the latest research to help you master the competencies of effective executive leadership.

Executive leadership training can show you how to use your power and influence to achieve goals…build alliances across departments…establish strong working relationships…and create passion in your department, your team and your organization.

How You Will Benefit

• Build an executive leadership style that creates trust, sets a clear vision and guides your entire team toward greater performance and profit
  
• Gain insights into the key executive leadership skills and techniques you need to create a winning strategy
  
• Learn what real “coaching” consists of and how to build an extraordinary team that works together to deliver results
  
• Develop heightened “emotional intelligence” for greater professional achievement and satisfaction
  
• Identify the characteristics of effective leadership and the most common saboteur
  
• Develop an executive leadership style that adapts to the person and situation
  
• Improve performance through empowerment and effective delegation
  
• Clearly communicate mission, vision and value statements
  
• Build a cohesive unit that performs well in all situations
  
• Apply executive leadership training to continue your growth as a leader through a self-development plan
  

What You Will Cover

Understanding Today’s Executive Leadership Expectations

• Examining your executive leadership challenges
• Exploring the fundamental concepts of executive leadership
• The four-factor model of effective executive leadership
• Differentiating between leadership and management
• Identifying the executive leadership requirements for the 21st century

Leadership with the Head: Exploring the Strategic Elements of Executive Leadership

• Defining mission, vision and values
• Focusing on the “big picture” when building the culture
• The importance of planning and prioritizing in day-to-day activities
• Taking the time to focus on envisioning the future
• How a personal vision statement helps you achieve your organizational vision

Leadership with the Hands: Examining Situational Leadership

• Effectively influencing the performance of others
• Applying Situational Leadership_^® in coaching situations: delegating to high-performing employees…properly addressing performance issues
• Giving positive and constructive feedback: “you” vs. “I” messages
• Coaching role-plays and other techniques that help you lead the team with effective executive leadership, boost creativity and improve communication, solve problems and make decisions

Leadership with the Feet: Personal Values and Ethics at Work

• Understanding the challenges you face—and the various ways you can manage them
• Creating a culture of trusting relationships
• How individualized “passionate purpose” provides a context for consistency and credibility

Leadership with the Heart: Practicing Ways to Communicate

• Executive leadership techniques for enhancing pride in the work and the organization
• Motivating the workforce: three elements that ensure increased job satisfaction and productivity
• Examining the role of “emotional intelligence” in successful executive leadership
• Assessing your “emotional intelligence”: your strengths and areas that need development

Creating an Executive Leadership Development Plan

• Developing a plan based on your goals and your organization's strategy

Who Should Attend

This seminar is designed to provide executive leadership training for midlevel managers or executives who lead others with managerial responsibility. It will benefit executives who require strong decision-making skills and the ability to lead and motivate others.

This Seminar Features Blended Learning

AMA Blended Learning combines instructor-led training with online pre- and post-seminar assessments, tune-up courses and other resources to maximize your training goals. Through a blend of proven instructor-led seminars and powerful online technology, AMA Blended Learning provides a compelling and more comprehensive experience for the learner—producing a greater return-on-investment for the employer and the seminar participant.

Additional Information

• Extended Seminar Description
• Faculty Info
• Seminar Hours
• Travel and Accommodations
• Cancellation Policy
• Federal Government Employee Discounts
• On-Site Delivery

Registration Fee

3 days / 1.8 CEUs / 18 PDUs
Nonmembers $2,345 / AMA Members $2,095 / GSA $1,794

Schedule

We have 40 scheduled sessions located nationwide starting between July 30, 2008 and April 20, 2009.

• Call 1-877-566-9441 for an AMA Training Consultant.
• E-mail customerservice@amanet.org
• Fax AMA Text Registration Form
• Mail AMA Text Registration Form