For leaders who are focused on their organization's trajectory every single day, staying equipped to optimize performance, both for the business and for their own career, is not optional. This executive leadership program gives you the tools and frameworks to do exactly that.
What does it truly mean to lead at the executive level? It means being a visionary, a strategist, a communicator, a coach, a diplomat, and a trusted guide all at once. It means holding the big picture in focus while upholding high standards and earning the pride, commitment, and camaraderie of an exceptional team. This program is designed to help you define your own leadership style, build a high-performing team, and master the core competencies that distinguish great executive leaders.
Who Should Attend:
This seminar is designed for mid-level managers and executives who lead others with managerial responsibility. It is particularly valuable for those who need strong decision-making capabilities and the ability to lead, motivate, and develop their teams.
How You Will Benefit:
- Build an executive leadership style rooted in trust, clear vision, and team accountability
- Articulate your mission, vision, and values with authenticity and conviction
- Practice coaching and inspiring your people to achieve outstanding results
- Harness your emotional intelligence to drive greater personal achievement and satisfaction
- Identify the hallmarks of effective leadership and the most common factors that undermine it
- Create dedicated time for yourself and your team to focus on strategic execution
- Cultivate a productive culture oriented around shared purpose
What You Will Cover:
Your Leadership Journey
- Examining your leadership challenges and core beliefs about what leadership means
- Distinguishing between managing and leading
- Identifying and practicing leadership competencies for the modern era
Developing Strategic Leadership and Purpose
- Understanding the big picture of organizational strategy
- Planning and prioritizing to protect time for strategic execution
- Crafting a powerful vision statement that guides your team forward
- Communicating strategy in ways that empower those around you
Leveraging Executive Effectiveness
- Mastering self-management and personal productivity techniques
- Enhancing emotional intelligence to distinguish yourself as a high-performing executive
- Developing the skills to manage your own emotions while nurturing key relationships
- Recognizing the emotional states of others and responding with appropriateness and care
Developing the Talents of Others
- Intentionally supporting others in becoming self-reliant problem-solvers
- Assessing the readiness of individuals and teams to accomplish specific goals
- Coaching and inspiring your people toward progressively higher performance
Aligning Organizational Culture with Strategy
- Treating culture-shaping as a deliberate leadership practice
- Designing intrinsic rewards that fuel lasting engagement and satisfaction
- Aligning your personal values with the values of the organization
- Navigating the challenges of ethical decision-making
- Building mutual trust and respect throughout your sphere of influence
The Art and Science of Inspirational Leadership
- Creating an environment where idea-sharing and collaboration thrive
- Assessing how your leadership style currently motivates and demotivates others
- Personalizing recognition and reward, both in person and virtually, to strengthen commitment and morale
Your Executive Leadership Development Plan
- Identifying, prioritizing, and creating a roadmap for applying skills and tools learned in the program
- Leveraging your strengths to continue growing as a high-performing executive
Pre-work: Skill Assessment and Strategic Leadership Type Indicator. Completing the pre-work and bringing results to class is required.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify and begin addressing your most significant leadership challenges
- Analyze your self-assessment results in terms of strengths and development needs
- Connect the principles of strategic leadership to your specific organizational context
- Assess your emotional intelligence and understand its impact on your leadership potential
- Apply the concepts of strategic leadership to current and future challenges
- Coach employees toward improved performance through structured, supportive conversations
- Identify your personal values and understand how they shape your leadership
- Apply motivation and engagement practices to drive team performance
- Assess the culture of your organization and identify opportunities for positive change
- Apply the techniques of inspirational leaders to your daily practice
- Create a personal development plan designed to strengthen your executive performance over time
Detailed Lesson Outline:
Learning Objectives
- Identify and begin addressing your most pressing leadership challenges
- Analyze your self-assessment results across strengths and areas for development
- Connect the principles of strategic leadership to the realities of your organization
- Assess your emotional intelligence and understand its influence on your leadership potential
- Apply strategic leadership concepts to the challenges you face every day
- Coach employees toward improved performance through structured, empathetic conversations
- Understand your personal values and how they shape your leadership style and decisions
- Apply motivational and engagement practices that drive meaningful team performance
- Assess the culture of your organization and identify high-leverage opportunities for change
- Apply the techniques of inspirational leaders in your day-to-day interactions
- Develop a comprehensive personal development plan to sustain your executive growth over time
Lesson One
Your Leadership Journey
- Identify your most significant leadership challenges and begin developing approaches to address them
- Describe the AMA Total Professional Model and the competencies associated with leadership-level performance
- Identify your strengths and development needs using the AMA Leader Level Competency Framework
- Evaluate the relationship between your leadership challenges and your assessment results
Strategic Leadership, Part 1
- Describe the distinction between leadership behaviors and management behaviors
- Define the core elements of strategic leadership and a strategic plan
- Articulate your unit's mission, vision, and values with clarity and conviction
- Apply goal-setting strategies to establish goals that are both ambitious and achievable
- Explain the significance of prioritization as a strategic leadership discipline
Lesson Two
Strategic Leadership, Part 2
Professional Effectiveness
- Define emotional intelligence and explain why it matters for leaders at every level
- Identify your emotional intelligence strengths and target development areas
- Apply evidence-based practices for developing your emotional intelligence over time
- Describe your strategy for professional effectiveness and demonstrate it through positive communication and presence
- Explain how to align your team's culture with the strategic direction you are setting
Developing the Talent of Others, Part 1
- Identify the relationships between the work environment and individual performance factors
- Understand how individual performance connects to broader strategic outcomes
Lesson Three
Developing the Talent of Others, Part 2
- Apply strategic leadership capabilities to the development of team members
- Practice a structured coaching process designed to build self-reliant problem-solvers
Aligning Organizational Culture with Strategy, Part 1
- Explain why shaping organizational culture is a core leadership responsibility
- Analyze the culture of your organization or team using a structured diagnostic
- Examine how your personal values align with the stated values of your organization
- Identify the types of organizational cultures and how each affects member behavior and performance
Lesson Four
Aligning Organizational Culture with Strategy, Part 2
- Describe the imperative of leading an ethical organizational culture
- Select practices to build and sustain trust with every member of your team
The Art and Science of Inspirational Leadership
- Describe the relationship between leadership behavior and employee engagement
- Create and present a personal leadership crest that captures your authentic leadership attributes
- Identify specific actions that create a more motivating, energizing workplace culture
- Differentiate between recognition and reward based on the individual preferences of those you lead
Leadership Development Planning
- Prepare a thoughtful and realistic plan for your continued leadership development
- Complete your Leadership Development Plan and receive structured feedback from your instructor and peers
