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NEW YORK, July 26, 2001—American Management
Association (AMA) is offering a new series of seminars for African-American
managers and executives to assist them with the unique challenges they
face as they move up the ranks in corporate America. Created and taught
by African-Americans with extensive business and leadership experience,
these three seminars present AMA’s management techniques and practices
within a historical and cultural context unique to African-Americans in
today’s business environment.
“This curriculum helps African-American businessmen
and women develop the tools they need to succeed at various points throughout
their careers, whether they are making the transition to newly appointed
managers or they are seasoned executives looking to sharpen their leadership
skills,” said Diane Laurenzo, AMA’s senior vice president, Seminars.
“These three-day programs provide an open, honest forum for participants
to exchange ideas, information and experiences.” Interactive activities
include simulations, role-playing, workplace and self-assessments and
case studies that address such issues as diversity, race relations, stereotyping,
workplace stress and managing expectations.
The first course, “The Newly Promoted African-American
Manager and Supervisor: Making the Transition,” is designed for those
with less than one year of management experience. The program helps attendees
identify their strengths and weaknesses in becoming more effective managers,
shows them how to enhance their management image at the outset in a new
position, enables them to remove self-imposed barriers to success and
to evaluate the organization’s mind-set from their unique perspectives.
“Management Skills for African-Americans,”
the second course in the series, is designed for managers with one-to-five-years
of management experience. The program helps participants refine the skills
necessary to enhance their managerial abilities and performance; strengthen
their motivation, delegation, coaching and interpersonal communication
skills; and gain valuable insights into how they are perceived within
the organization. The seminar also helps to analyze workplace diversity
issues and to manage race-related and other stress while managing others.
The third course, “Leadership Skills and
Techniques for African-Americans,” is for mid- to senior-level professionals
who have been promoted recently to leadership roles. Participants learn
the differences between management and leadership, discover and assess
their unique leadership style and voice, participate in simulated leadership
activities, and develop an action plan to implement when they return to
work
The new management and leadership seminar series
for African-American businessmen and women are held at the American Management
Association’s Executive Conference Centers in New York, Atlanta,
Chicago and Washington, D.C. For more information or to register, call
800.262.9699 or visit online at www.amanet.org.
American Management Association is the world’s
leading membership-based management development organization. It is distinguished
by the quality of its faculty of global business practitioners, the practical,
action-oriented focus of its learning programs and the dynamic, interactive
nature of its courses. AMA offers a full range of business education and
management development programs for individuals and organizations in the
Americas, Asia and Europe. More than 700,000 AMA customers and members
a year, including 486 of the Fortune 500 companies and many federal agencies,
learn superior business skills and best management practices through a
variety of seminars, conferences and executive forums, e-learning and
self-study courses, books, research studies, and on-site and customized
learning solutions.
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