What You Will Cover

Vision

• Make your vision compelling
• Communicate your vision effectively

Strategy

• Sharpen your strategy
• Ensure your structure fits your strategy

Organizational Culture

• Assess your organizational culture
• Determine the type of culture you need

Personal Leadership Assessment

• Conduct an extensive personal leadership assessment using the Leadership Versatility Index
• Gain valuable feedback and identify areas for improvement

Succession Planning

• Determine if you and your organization are prepared
• Assess your "succession risk factors"

Team Building

• Draft directives for key staff
• Explore team dynamics and the key elements for success

Execution

• Determine which stakeholders need to be in play and when
• Find out how to deploy a “Rapid Results” strategy to achieve results—fast!

Action Plans

• Develop actionable plans to implement on Monday
• Prepare for presentations to your board and senior management team

Extended Seminar Outline

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Extended Seminar Outline

AMA's Course for Presidents and CEOs

Seminar #16501

Learning Objectives

• An Industry Where Products Are Becoming Commodities and Profits Are Approaching Zero
• Competitive Developments from Outside the "Normal" Channels of Business
• Investor Concerns About Growth and Return on Investment
• Greater Difficulty Predicting Likely Events That Will Impact the Business
• Changing Customer and Market Preferences
• Shifting Organizational Needs with Increased Need for Knowledge-Based Skills and Capabilities
• Other issues ______

A Future That Inspires

• What’s on Your Radar Screen?
• The Evolution of a CEO
• Where Are You Now? ... Where Do You Want to Be?
• What Vision Offers
• Make Your Vision Personal and Compelling

Strategy That Delivers

• Working Definition
• Strategy Development Process
• Elements of Business Design
• Mapping and Sharpening Your Strategy
• Patterns in Your Business Industry
• Three Growth Strategies

An Organization That Achieves

• What Is Organizational Culture?
• Your Cultural Model
• Culture, Strategy, and Leaders
• Leadership Roles and Organizational Performance
• Levers for Managing Culture
• Organizational Structure
• Components of a High-Performance Company

A Leader Who Learns

• Introduction to the Leadership Versatility Index (LVI)
• Team Assessment
• Implications of Your Assessment
• Development Planning

A Leadership Team That Leads

• Effective Executive Teams
• CEO Succession
• Small-Group Discussion

Execute with Excellence

• Building Results into Organizational Change
• Rapid Results Approach
• Stakeholders View of the Corporation

Who Should Attend

Additional Information

John L. Mariotti is president and CEO of The Enterprise Group—a coalition of time-shared executive advisors. He serves as a director on several corporate boards: World Kitchen, Petmate, HomeCare Industries, and advisory boards: Henkel Consumer Adhesives , DFCo. LLC, & Levick Strategic Communications. He is a former senior executive having been chairman of the board of World Kitchen, president of Huffy Bicycles, and group president of Rubbermaid Office Products. Since founding The Enterprise Group in 1994, Mariotti has been an advisor to many well-known companies in areas of strategy, marketing, operations, partnerships, and complexity. He is the author of eight business books and a novel, and hundreds of columns and articles. His newest book, The Complexity Crisis was released in 2008 by Adams Media's Platinum Press and selected as one of 2008's Best Business Books by Soundview Executive Summaries. He holds a BSME from Bradley University and an MSME from the University of Wisconsin.