AMA2501: Developing Executive Leadership

1. 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
• Executive leadership requirements for the 21st century

2. 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

3. Leadership with the Hands: Examining Situational Leadership

• Effectively influencing the performance of others
• Applying Situational Leadership® in coaching situations: delegating to high-performing employees and 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, improve communication, solve problems, and make decisions

4. 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

5. 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

6. Creating an Executive Leadership Development Plan

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

• 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
• 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

• Mid-level managers or executives who lead others with managerial responsibility
• Executives who require strong decision-making skills and the ability to lead and motivate others