Course Description
Learn to become an innovator, a persuasive player and a champion of strategic change. This seminar gives you the right practice to close the gap between where you are now and where you want to be. You'll conduct SWOT analysis, leverage key prospects for strategic opportunities and inspire risk taking and innovation.
Make your mark. This training course gives you the skills to add value to your organization and move your team forward decisively.
How You Will Benefit
- Inspire and direct your team to greater readiness and competitiveness
- Use strategic thinking to add value to your organization by understanding the needs and expectations of your customers
- Anticipate and innovate strategies to link strategic vision to core capabilities
- Recognize opportunities to influence and create strategic alliances
- Use strategic thinking to identify key strengths and weaknesses in your work group
- Encourage and support risk taking and innovation at all levels
- Develop persuasive skills to sell your strategic ideas
Online Accreditation1.2 CEU, 12 PDCs, 12 PHR, 12 SPHR
Agenda
What You Will CoverDeveloping and Balancing Operational and Strategic Management Skills
- Establish a working definition of operational management
- Explore the key attributes of today’s strategic leaders
Creating a Strategic Frame of Reference
- Understand the key components of the strategic leadership model
- Develop a strategic leader’s approach for your own work environment
Understanding Your Current Operational Mission: Your Team, Your Customers and Your Competitors
- Strategic thinking: moving from a limited context to a broader view
- Understand how to apply a SWOT analysis to your team
- Create a mission statement defining the operational reality of your work group
Developing a Strategic Vision: Moving from What Is to What If
- How to identify priority issues to create your strategic advantage
- Encourage innovative solutions
- Prepare a draft of a vision statement
Making Your Vision a Reality: Influencing Key Stakeholders
- Develop their persuasive skills
- Explore a range of options for influencing others
Your Personal Plan: Developing and Selling Your Vision of the Future
- Communication strategies to sell your strategic plan
- Conduct key conversations to encourage innovation and risk taking
Special Feature
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.
Audience
Managers with fewer than five years of management experience who want to move into a more strategic role.
Cancellation:Transfer, Cancellation and Refund Policy. For Classroom, Live Online and Webinar programs, you may transfer to a future session, send someone to take your place or cancel without penalty at any time up to three weeks prior to your program. If you provide AMA with less than three weeks’ notice, or fail to attend, you will be liable for the entire program fee. Programs included in AMA OnDemand offerings are not eligible for substitution, transfer, cancellation, return or refund. We appreciate that this is an important investment for you and your company and would like to accommodate your needs the best we can. Please call us if you have any questions