When your daily focus centers on your organization's future and strategic direction, you must be equipped with executive leadership skills to optimize organizational performance and advance your career trajectory. Executive leadership requires serving as a visionary, a strategic innovator, a skilled communicator, a mentor to others, a diplomatic negotiator, and an effective political operator within your organization.
Cultivate pride, commitment, and strong team camaraderie through leadership excellence. Master the ability to balance strategic thinking with high performance standards while managing multiple complex responsibilities. This seminar brings you together with peer leaders to develop your authentic leadership style, create and nurture high-performing teams, and master the essential competencies that define effective executive leadership.
Who Should Attend:
This seminar is designed for mid-level managers and executives who lead others and bear managerial responsibility. Participants will benefit significantly if they need to strengthen decision-making capabilities and develop the ability to lead and motivate diverse teams effectively.
How You Will Benefit:
- Develop an executive leadership style that builds trust, communicates a clear vision, and guides teams toward stronger performance and profitability
- Express your mission, vision, and values with authenticity, conviction, and emotional resonance
- Apply coaching and mentoring approaches that inspire team members to deliver exceptional results
- Leverage emotional intelligence for enhanced professional achievement and personal satisfaction
- Recognize the defining characteristics of exceptional leaders and understand common leadership pitfalls
- Allocate time strategically for yourself and your team to focus on strategy and implementation
- Build a productive organizational culture that advances toward shared strategic objectives
What You Will Cover:
Your Leadership Journey and Professional Development
- Explore your personal leadership challenges and foundational leadership beliefs
- Distinguish between management functions and true leadership practices
- Identify and practice leadership competencies essential for success in the 21st century
Developing Strategic Leadership and Passionate Purpose
- Understand the broader strategic context and business direction of your organization
- Develop planning and prioritization strategies to create time for strategy execution
- Craft a compelling vision statement that empowers and directs your leadership efforts
- Practice communicating your strategic direction to build understanding and commitment across your organization
Leveraging Your Professional and Executive Effectiveness
- Master self-management and personal productivity techniques
- Strengthen emotional intelligence capabilities that position you as a high-performing executive
- Build skills to manage your own emotions and foster meaningful professional relationships
- Develop the ability to recognize emotional states in others and respond to their needs appropriately
Developing the Talents of Your Team Members
- Develop intentional approaches to help others become resourceful and independent problem-solvers
- Assess individual capability and motivation to determine appropriate task assignments and support
- Apply coaching and mentoring techniques that elevate team member performance and engagement
Aligning Organizational Culture with Strategy
- Shape organizational culture as an intentional strategic leadership practice
- Design intrinsic reward systems that increase engagement and professional satisfaction
- Ensure alignment between your authentic personal values and organizational values
- Address ethical challenges and develop a framework for ethical decision-making
- Build mutual trust and respect throughout your area of influence and responsibility
Learning the Art and Science of Inspirational Leadership
- Establish an environment that encourages idea generation, experimentation, and collaboration
- Evaluate current leadership practices to understand how they motivate or discourage team members
- Customize reward and recognition programs (both in-person and virtual settings) to strengthen commitment, pride, and team cohesion
Creating Your Executive Leadership Development Path
- Identify, prioritize, and develop a strategic roadmap for implementing the skills and tools you have learned
- Maximize your natural strengths to advance your development as a high-performing executive leader
Pre-course Work:
Skill Assessment and Strategic Leadership Type Indicator. Complete the pre-work assessment before attending class and bring your results for discussion.
Course Outline:
Learning Objectives
- Identify and address your leadership challenges systematically
- Analyze self-assessment results to understand your strengths and development opportunities
- Apply strategic leadership concepts to your organization's context
- Evaluate your emotional intelligence and its impact on leadership potential
- Implement the concepts of strategic leadership in practical ways
- Apply coaching approaches to improve team member performance
- Understand your personal values and ethics, and how they influence your leadership
- Identify and apply practices that strengthen motivation and engagement
- Analyze your organization's culture and its effectiveness
- Apply techniques used by inspirational leaders
- Develop a personal leadership development plan to enhance your executive performance
Lesson One: My Leadership Journey and Strategic Foundation
My Leadership Journey
- Identify your most pressing leadership challenges and develop insights for addressing them
- Understand the AMA's Total Professional Model and core competencies at the executive level
- Assess your strengths and development needs relative to AMA leadership competencies
- Evaluate the relationship between your identified challenges and your assessment results
Strategic Leadership, Part 1
- Describe leadership and management behaviors and their distinct functions
- Define the key elements of strategic leadership and strategic planning
- Articulate your mission, vision, and core values
- Apply goal-setting strategies to establish achievable and meaningful objectives
- Understand the importance of effective prioritization
Lesson Two: Professional Effectiveness and Team Development
Strategic Leadership, Part 2
Professional Effectiveness
- Define emotional intelligence and its critical importance to executive success
- Identify your emotional intelligence strengths and areas for development
- Apply techniques and practices to strengthen your emotional intelligence
- Explain your professional effectiveness strategy through positive communication and presence
- Understand how to align your team's culture with your strategic direction
Developing the Talent of Others, Part 1
- Understand the relationships between the work environment and individual performance
- Analyze how individual performance connects to organizational strategy
Lesson Three: Advanced Team Leadership
Developing the Talent of Others, Part 2
- Apply strategic leadership skills to develop and empower your team members
- Practice a coaching process that supports independent problem-solving
Aligning Organizational Culture and Engagement with Strategy, Part 1
- Understand the importance of shaping organizational culture intentionally
- Assess your organization's or team's current culture
- Examine the alignment of your personal values with your organization's stated values
- Identify types of organizational cultures and their effects on team members
Lesson Four: Culture, Ethics, and Inspirational Leadership
Aligning Organizational Culture and Engagement with Strategy, Part 2
- Understand the importance of ethical leadership practices
- Select practices that build and maintain trust throughout your team
The Art and Science of Inspirational Leadership
- Understand how leadership approaches influence employee engagement and commitment
- Create and share your personal leadership crest that expresses your authentic leadership qualities
- Identify specific actions that create a more motivating work environment
- Distinguish between recognition and reward based on individual preferences and values
Leadership Development Planning
- Create and plan your ongoing leadership development strategy
- Finalize and receive feedback on your personalized leadership development plan
