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Developing Executive Leadership

Join millions of team leaders who have trusted the expert faculty at AMA for their executive leadership training needs.

When you’re focused on your organization's future every day of every workweek, it's vital that you are well equipped to optimize your company's performance—as well as your own career—with executive leadership training. What does it mean to be an executive leader? It means you’re a visionary, a trailblazer, a strategist, a communicator, a coach, a diplomat and a politician. Pride, commitment and camaraderie. Those are the words you describe your team. You’re able to focus on the big picture and uphold high standards while wearing many hats. We know It takes laser-precise vision to be an executive leader. Join your peers in this course to craft your own leadership style, build an extraordinary team and master the competencies of effective executive leadership.

Seminar Number: 02501

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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.

  •   In-Person3 Day(s)
    1.8 CEU, 18 CLP, 21 CPE, 18 PDCs, 18 PDU, 18 PMU
  •   Live Online4 Day(s)
    1.8 CEU, 18 CLP, 21 CPE, 18 PDCs, 18 PDU, 18 PMU
 
 

When you’re focused on your organization's future every day of every workweek, it's vital that you are well equipped to optimize your company's performance—as well as your own career—with executive leadership training.

What does it mean to be an executive leader? It means you’re a visionary, a trailblazer, a strategist, a communicator, a coach, a diplomat and a politician. Pride, commitment and camaraderie. Those are the words you describe your team. You’re able to focus on the big picture and uphold high standards while wearing many hats. We know It takes laser-precise vision to be an executive leader. Join your peers in this course to craft your own leadership style, build an extraordinary team and master the competencies of effective executive leadership.

  • Build an executive leadership style that creates trust, sets a clear vision and guides your entire team toward greater performance and profit
  • Articulate your mission, vision and value statements with authenticity and passion
  • Practice coaching and inspiring your people to deliver outstanding results
  • Channel your “emotional intelligence” for greater achievement and satisfaction
  • Identify the characteristics of effective leadership and the most common saboteur
  • Prioritize time for yourself and your team for strategy implementation
  • Foster a productive environment that drives towards a shared purpose

Your Leadership Journey

  • Exploring your leadership challenges and core leadership beliefs
  • Differentiating between management and leadership
  • Identifying and practicing leadership requirements for the 21st century

Developing Strategic Leadership and Passionate Purpose

  • Understanding the “big picture” of organizational strategy
  • Planning and prioritizing to secure time for strategy implementation
  • Guiding success by crafting your power vision statement
  • Practicing communicating your strategy to empower others

Leveraging Your Professional and Executive Effectiveness

  • Mastering techniques of self-management and personal productivity
  • Enhancing your emotional intelligence to set yourself apart as a high-performing executive
  • Developing the skills to manage your emotions as you foster relationships
  • Recognizing the emotions of others and responding to their emotional needs

Developing the Talents of Others

  • Becoming intentional in supporting others to become self-reliant problem solvers
  • Assessing the ability and willingness of individuals and teams to accomplish tasks and goals
  • Coaching and inspiring your people to higher levels of performance

Aligning Organizational Culture with Strategy

  • Shaping your organizational culture as a strategic leadership practice
  • Creating intrinsic rewards that drive engagement and satisfaction
  • Aligning your core authentic personal values with the values of your organization
  • Addressing the challenges of ethics and ethical decision making
  • Fostering mutual trust and respect throughout your sphere of influence

Learning the Art and Science of Inspirational Leadership

  • Creating an environment that thrives on idea sharing and collaboration
  • Assessing how your current practices and leadership style motivate and demotivate others
  • Customizing reward and recognition (onsite and virtually) for your people to increase commitment, pride and camaraderie

Creating Your Executive Leadership Development

  • Identifying, prioritizing and creating a roadmap to implement the skills, tools and actions learned
  • Leveraging your strengths to further develop yourself as a high-performing executive

Pre-work: Skill Assessment and Strategic Leadership Type Indicator. It is essential that you complete the pre-work and bring your results to class.

Learning Objectives

  • Identify and Begin to Address Your Leadership Challenges
  • Analyze the Results of Your Self-Assessment Strengths and Development Needs
  • Relate the Components of Strategic Leadership to Your Organization
  • Assess Your Emotional Intelligence and Its Impact on Your Leadership Potential
  • Understand and Apply the Concepts of Strategic Leadership
  • Coach Employees Toward Improved Performance
  • Discover Your Personal Values and Ethics and Their Influence on Your Leadership
  • Identify and Apply Practices That Influence Motivation and Engagement
  • Assess the Culture of Your Organization
  • Apply Techniques of Inspirational Leadership
  • Create a Personal Development Plan to Bolster Your Executive Performance

My Leadership Journey

  • Identify Your Most Important Leadership Challenges and Insights to Address These Challenges
  • Describe AMA’s Total Professional Model and Leader Level Competencies
  • Identify Your Strengths and Development Needs Based on AMA’s Leader Level Competencies
  • Evaluate the Relationships Between Your Leadership Challenges and Your Assessment Results

Strategic Leadership

  • Describe Leadership and Management Behaviors and Their Relationship to Your Role in Your Organization
  • Define the Elements of Strategic Leadership and a Strategic Plan
  • Focus on the Vision, Mission, and Values for the Area You Lead and Draft the Components
  • Apply the Essence of Goal Setting to Set Goals That Will Be Accomplished
  • Focus on the Significance of Prioritization Based on a Sense of Urgency and Importance

Leveraging Professional Effectiveness

  • Define Emotional Intelligence and Its Importance
  • Identify Your EI Strengths and Development Needs
  • Apply Techniques and Practices to Develop Your Emotional Intelligence
  • Refine Your Strategy and Practice Professional Effectiveness, Communication and Leadership/Executive Presence Skills

Developing the Talents of Others

  • Identify the Relationships Between Work Environment and Individual Factors of Performance
  • Recognize the Relationships Among Strategy and Individual Performance
  • Apply Strategic Leadership Skills to Develop Team Members
  • Practice a Coaching Process to Support Self-Reliant Problem Solving and Personal Accountability

Aligning Organizational Culture and Engagement with Strategy

  • Recognize the Importance of Shaping Organizational Culture
  • Assess the Culture of Your Organization or Team
  • Consider the Alignment of Your Personal Values with the Values of Your Organization
  • Identify the Types of Organizational Cultures and Their Influence on Members
  • Describe the Importance of Leading and Trust with Your Team Members

The Art and Science of Inspirational Leadership

  • Create and Share a Personal Crest That Describes Your Authentic Leadership Attributes
  • Describe the Relationship Between Leadership and Employee Engagement
  • Differentiate Between Recognition and Reward Practices Based on the Personal Preferences of Others (Onsite and Virtually)
  • Identify Actions You Will Take to Create a More Motivating Workplace

Leadership Development Plans

  • Prepare and Plan for Your Continued Leadership Development
  • Complete and Receive Feedback on Your Leadership Development Plan

Download Extended Seminar Outline PDF

Learning Objectives

  • Identify and Begin to Address Your Leadership Challenges
  • Analyze the Results of Your Self-Assessment Strengths and Development Needs
  • Relate the Components of Strategic Leadership to Your Organization
  • Assess Your Emotional Intelligence and its Impact on Your Leadership potential
  • Understand and Apply the Concepts of Strategic Leadership
  • Coach Employees Toward Improved Performance
  • Discover Your Personal Values and Ethics and Their Influence on Your Leadership
  • Identify and Apply Practices That Influence Motivation and Engagement
  • Assess the Culture of Your Organization.
  • Apply Techniques of Inspirational Leaders
  • Create a Personal Development Plan to Bolster Your Executive Performance

LESSON ONE

My Leadership Journey

  • Identify Your Most Important Leadership Challenges and Gain Insights on How to Address Those Challenges
  • Describe the AMA’s Total Professional Model and Leader Level Competencies
  • Identify Your Strengths and Development Needs Based on AMA’s Leader Level Competencies
  • Evaluate the Relationships Between Your Leadership Challenges and Your Assessment Results

Strategic Leadership, Part 1

  • Describe Leadership and Management Behaviors
  • Define the Elements of Strategic Leadership and a Strategic Plan
  • Specify Your Mission, Vision, and Values
  • Apply Strategies of Goal Setting to Set Goals That Can be Accomplished
  • Explain the Significance of Prioritization

LESSON TWO

Strategic Leadership, Part 2

Professional Effectiveness

  • Define Emotional Intelligence (E.I.) and its Importance
  • Identify Your E.I. Strengths and Development Needs
  • Apply Techniques/Practices to Develop Your Emotional Intelligence
  • Explain Your Strategy for Professional Effectiveness and Demonstrate it By Practicing Positive Communication and Presence Skills
  • Describe How to Align the Culture of Your Team with Your Strategy

Developing the Talent of Others, Part 1

  • Identify the Relationships Between Work Environment and Individual Factors of Performance
  • Compare the Relationships Between Strategy and Individual Performance

LESSON THREE

Developing the Talent of Others, Part 2

  • Identify the Relationships Between Work Environment and Individual Factors of Performance
  • Compare the Relationships Between Strategy and Individual Performance
  • Apply Strategic Leadership Skills to Develop Team Members
  • Practice a Coaching Process to Support Self-Reliant Problem-Solving

Aligning Organizational Culture and Engagement with Strategy, Part 1

  • Explain the Importance of Shaping Organizational Culture
  • Analyze the Culture of Your Organization or Team
  • Examine the Alignment of Your Personal Values with the Values of Your Organization
  • Identify the Types of Organizational Cultures and Their Influence on Members

LESSON FOUR

Aligning Organizational Culture and Engagement with Strategy, Part 2

  • Describe the Importance of Leading an Ethical Organizational Culture
  • Select Practices to Create and Maintain Trust with Your Team Members

The Art and Science of Inspirational Leadership

  • Describe the Relationship Between Leadership and Employee Engagement
  • Create and Share a Personal Crest That Describes Your Authentic Leadership Attributes
  • Identify Actions That Create a More Motivating Workplace
  • Differentiate Between Recognition and Reward Practices Based on the Personal Preferences of Others

Leadership Development Plans

  • Prepare and Plan for Your Continued Leadership Development
  • Complete and Receive Feedback on Your Leadership Development Plan

Download Extended Seminar Outline PDF

View a Sample of Our Reviews

5

790 reviews

 
The course on Developing Executive Leadership met my expectations. I took this course to examine whether or not Executive Leadership is something that I wanted to pursue and to learn to write a Vision Statement. Mission accomplished.
5
Brenda C.
 
Shop Manager
 
Industry: Retail
Great seminar. Good pace and content. The instructor had a lot of professional and educational experience. Worth every dollar!
5
ALEJANDRO T.
 
VP MARKETING
 
Industry: Manufacturing, Food & Beverage
The material/content and instructor was very good and insightful. Definitely information that can be applied in day to day to becoming a more effective leader.
5
ISIDRO A.
 
SENIOR GLOBAL PROJECT MANAGER
 
Industry: Holding Company & Conglomerate
The course was full of information and I have a lot to review and practice.
5
Bill B.
 
Director Technology Support Svcs
 
Industry: Education
Great material, very informative teacher and wonderful classmates to share knowledge and network with! overall an outstanding experience!
5
Briggette P.
 
HR Generalist
 
Industry: Government

This course is valid for PMUs.
Classroom 3 Professional Effectiveness [PE]
Classroom 11 Relationship Management [RM]
Classroom 4 Business Acumen [BA]
Live Online 2 Professional Effectiveness [PE]
Live Online 7 Relationship Management [RM]
Live Online 3 Business Acumen [BA]

AMA is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CPSM or SHRM-SCPSM.

AMA has been reviewed and approved as a provider of project management training by the Project Management Institute (PMI).

Talent Triangle PDUs

[L] 18 Classroom/12 Live Online

Project Management Institute (PMI) Talent Triangle, 2015.
Reproduced with the permission of PMI. Copyright and all rights reserved

American Management Association is accredited by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and is accredited to issue the IACET CEU.

AMA is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org. For additional information or for more information regarding administrative policies such as complaints and refunds, please contact Martha Leon at 212-903-8173.

Recommended CPE Credit:
Classroom: 21 hours/Intermediate Live Online: 14 hours/Intermediate
Prerequisites: None
Advance Preparation: Online pre-and post-assessment
Delivery Method: Group Live/Group Internet-based
Field of Study: Non-Technical – Communication, Personal Development

In-Person Schedule

13 Sessions Available

Live Online Schedule

11 Sessions Available

  • $3,195.00 Non Members
  • $2,895.00 AMA Members
  • $2,833.00 GSA
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