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Executive Leadership & Strategic Thinking

Develop the executive leadership skills and strategic mindset you need to drive your team’s performance and enhance your career, ensuring the overall success of your strategic plans.

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The Key Issues

Executive leadership and strategic thinking are important for improving team performance and reaching company goals, but many leaders have trouble turning their vision into clear actions. You might find it hard to make complex decisions, motivate your team, or adjust to fast changes in the environment. By building your executive leadership skills and strategic thinking,you will enhance your ability to lead effectively, make smarter choices, and successfully carry out your plans, which will help you and your organization succeed.

Strategic thinking processes

Understanding influences and relationships in your company

Assessing your strategy

Key Competences​

Embracing necessary risks

Executive leadership

Decision-making

The Right Programme for You

You are a manager, director, or executive leading others with management responsibilities, you need to enhance your decision-making, leadership, and motivational skills while also developing strategic thinking abilities.
  • Business Professionals
  • New Managers
  • Managers
  • Senior Managers

Highlights

Develop your own personal leadership style and master the competences of effective executive leadership.

Do a self assessment and evaluate the relationships between your leadership challenges and your assessment results.

Compare and contrast strategic thinking to analytical thinking, critical thinking, and inductive and deductive reasoning.

Create an action plan for development of strategic thinking skills in your role.

Learn, Practice and Use

  • Explore ways to challenge your assumptions and view your business in a new light
  • Generate new ideas and evaluate future scenarios before your competitors do
  • Know when to embrace necessary risk, even if resources and information are limited
  • Learn to create better short-term goals that support long-term strategy
  • Compare and contrast strategic thinking to analytical thinking, critical thinking and inductive and deductive reasoning
  • Recognize and use thinking skills that support imagining new ways of relating to your market and your customers
  • Influence the people you need to get your project done and to meet your goals and objectives
  • Manage internal politics and difficult people and overcome resistance
  • Project a stronger, more confident and professional image so that others will listen to you
  • Apply a wider range of high impact influencing strategies to get what you need, regardless of your position or level of authority
  • Develop a personal action plan that you will take back with you to implement within your organization
  • Understand power, politics, persuasion and the impact on strategy execution

Programme Details

Executive Leadership & Strategic Thinking is a highly interactive programme with exercises and role plays

Thirteen Programme Modules

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Prepare and Plan for Your Continued Leadership Development
  • Complete and Receive Feedback on Your Leadership Development Plan
  • Define Strategic Thinking and Recognise How It Can Be Used in Your Day-to-Day Work
  • Compare and Contrast Strategic Thinking to Analytical Thinking, Critical Thinking, and Inductive and Deductive Reasoning
  • Identify the Characteristics of Strategic Thinkers
  • Explain a Model for Strategic Thinking in Day-to-Day Activities and Work Applications
  • List Skills and Tools That Can Be Used to Support Strategic Thinking
  • Identify the Influences and Relationships at Different Levels of an Organization That Can Impact a Strategy
  • Recognise and Identify Patterns of Interaction and Development That Are Likely to Influence the Effectiveness of a Strategy
  • Incorporate Multiple Perspectives on a Possible Strategy, and Assess Different Influences on the Potential Success
  • Envision a Desired Future State
  • Recognise and Use Thinking Skills That Support Imagining New Ways of Relating to the Market and Customers
  • Identify and Sequence the Multiple Steps to Move from the Current State of the Issue/Opportunity to the Desire Future State
  • Anticipate the Reactions/Responses of Others in the Larger Systems Impacting Your Situation
  • Identify and Conduct Experiments and Tests That Point Your Way Forward
  • Assess What You Gained from Applying Strategic Thinking Tools to Your Project
  • Anticipate Pitfalls You May Encounter as a Strategic Thinker
  • Create an Action Plan for Development of Strategic Thinking Skills
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Bettina
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Bettina
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Bettina
Hausmann

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Hausmann

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