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This leadership training course is uniquely designed to help leaders-to-be get ready for their new challenges and responsibilities. Learners will discover the heart, soul and mind of true leadership, and explore leadership roles as strategist, change agent, coach, manager, communicator, mentor and team member. They will learn how to develop their unique leadership style for maximum impact.

Powerful Techniques for Cultivating Your Resilience Resilience is the ability to withstand, recover, and bounce back in the midst of stress, chaos, and ever-changing situations. Being resilient is especially important in today’s topsy-turvy world where everyone is worn down, uncertain about the future, reactive, and short tempered. The good news is that resiliency is a skill that can be learned and improved with practice. In fact, to be an effective leader today, this is an essential skill for career success. This webinar is filled with specific, practical frameworks and tools to boost your mental toughness when facing fast-paced, difficult, ever-changing, and ambiguous situations. Join us to discover step-by-step methods for staying grounded and protecting yourself from the ravages of change and its accompanying stress. Because when you’re stressed, you won’t perform at your best—and your health will suffer.

The shift from in-person to virtual meetings requires a specific new skill set in order for leaders and participants to have maximum effectiveness. An effective meeting leader must plan appropriately to keep participants engaged by creating an agenda with clear outcomes. In addition, they must be ready to manage the overall meeting experience and create and maintain a positive, safe atmosphere. For effective and productive virtual meetings, an understanding of the effect that technology can have (particularly on participants) is also crucial. At the same time, meeting participants must know how to properly engage in the meeting to get their messages across, while maintaining diplomacy and credibility. This program will equip you with the skills necessary to lead meetings for maximum engagement while creating clarity, purpose and value. You’ll also learn how to effectively participate in meetings, making your voice heard while observing proper virtual etiquette. A headset with microphone is required to attend and participate in this program.

Based on the book AMA Business Boot Camp, edited by Edward T. Reilly, former President and CEO of AMA. This virtually delivered course encompasses AMA’s years of trusted wisdom and training expertise, covering the most vital, time-tested management skills, tools and strategies. Your staff will complete the Golden Personality Type Profiler prior to class to gain a deeper understanding of themselves and others. As they work through each lesson, they’ll refer back to the results to pinpoint development opportunities so they can return to their job rejuvenated—better managers and communicators with renewed skills and confidence

When you’re focused on your organization’s future every day of every workweek, it’s vital that you are well equipped to optimize your company’s performance—as well as your own career—with executive leadership training. What does it mean to be an executive leader? It means you’re a visionary, a trailblazer, a strategist, a communicator, a coach, a diplomat and a politician. Pride, commitment and camaraderie. Those are the words you describe your team. You’re able to focus on the big picture and uphold high standards while wearing many hats. We know It takes laser-precise vision to be an executive leader. Join your peers in this course to craft your own leadership style, build an extraordinary team and master the competencies of effective executive leadership.

Women at every level of an organization can be strong leaders—bringing essential skills like team leadership, strategic thinking and business acumen to their roles. To flourish as a leader, a woman needs not only the skills to lead, but a dynamic voice that can be heard and followed. This unique 4-lessons program will provide you with the knowledge and tools to present yourself as a present and future leader, and to speak up and create value for your organization no matter what your role is. You’ll go beyond the fundamentals of communication and assertiveness skills and explore vision, negotiation and strategy—as well as powerful techniques to enable you to find your leadership voice and lead with courage and conviction. First, the course will focus on self-awareness and effectively leading yourself. Next, your focus will shift to leading others and presenting yourself as someone who creates and adds value. Upon completing this unique course, you’ll receive a special AMA Women’s Leadership Certificate, indicating that you’ve received in-person, hands-on training in leadership areas that are crucial for women who lead in business.

The countless ways in which professionals now communicate means business can be conducted almost anywhere. This has introduced the element of distance (both real and virtual) between coach and subject. Coaching skills that once worked so effectively face-to-face won’t get the job done today. For a remote or virtual environment, coaches must develop an entirely new battery of skills—from innovative ways of listening to new measures of coaching success. This new Live Online Seminar covers it all in four dynamic lessons, with a sharp focus on skill-building and modeling techniques that will enable coaches to move their teams to the next level of professional development regardless of distance.

Welcome to the Developing Emotional Intelligence in Leaders: The Power of Influencing Skills workshop. Emotional Intelligence is defined as a set of competencies demonstrating the ability one has to recognize his or her behaviours, moods, and impulses, and to manage them best according to the situation. This course will give leaders the tools they need to be emotionally intelligent in their workplace. A leader with high emotional intelligence can lead his or her own impulses, communicate with others effectively, manage change well, solve problems, and use humour to build rapport in tense situations.

Be empowered to deal with challenges that impede morale and productivity. One of the toughest parts of a manager’s job is dealing with and turning around problem employees. Whether it’s passive/aggressive direct reports or conflict resulting from generational or cultural differences, the issues are complex and filled with emotion. The solutions aren’t always found in “Management 101”—but in this course, you’ll gain skills and tools for resolving situations and keeping problems from getting out of hand. You’ll also work through your toughest situations with the help of guided role plays, exercises and skill practice sessions.

Lead more effectively by creating rapport, synergy and two-way trust. The most successful leaders are those with the best people skills, especially during the most difficult circumstances. Poor communication and interpersonal relationships routinely thwart leaders who are otherwise technically competent. In order to succeed, leaders must be fully engaged with the individuals who make up their organization. Focusing skill-by-skill on P.E.O.P.L.E. (Professionalism, Empathy, Optimism, Partnering, Loyalty and Empowering) this seminar can help anyone in a position of leadership to better demonstrate caring as well as courage, and to use a P.E.O.P.L.E. approach to achieve maximum results.

Learn a low-cost and low-risk method to generate business solutions. What if you could create radical solutions that could stimulate an emotional response? Better yet, what if you could do so rapidly? Experimental, collaborative and holistically innovative. That’s design thinking. It’s a mindset for success. It’s for anyone who wants to see infinite possibilities and turn problems into solutions. Putting the customer front and center, design thinking offers a strategy for successful companies to be more agile and innovative. Using a proven process to drive innovation, you will work in small teams to visualize outcomes and challenge assumptions. You’ll learn a proven, repeatable, creative and collaborative problem-solving method that you can use to reframe problems and generate more rapid, empathetic and innovative products and services.

Improve Your Communication Across Generations Discover how to communicate clearly and in the most positive and effective way possible with all generations in the workplace. Through exercises, role play and case studies, you’ll learn and practice specific skills to identify generational differences, break through stereotypes, foster respect and create a more productive work environment. This seminar will help you develop a dynamic communication style that will help you handle generational differences. Enhancing your communication can help reduce workplace conflicts, while also promoting team work. This 2-day seminar is perfect for business professionals at any level, who are looking to improve their communication skills to better deal with coworkers and team members of every generation.

Research is now showing that virtual teams can outperform collocated groups. The focus of this How-To class is to introduce you to new tools and techniques so that you can move your virtual teams toward higher levels of performance. This is a 3 Hour Live Online Express course of AMA focusing on Coaching Virtual teams. Programs is catered for a virtual delivery.

Inspire and facilitate creative thinking in your team and organization. Have you had difficulty integrating creative thinking and solutions into your organization’s culture? Do you or your colleagues feel a lack of confidence when it comes to creative output? Could fostering creative thinking help you and your team achieve better results? Attend this seminar and learn proven creative thinking techniques that can help you generate new ideas and develop a blueprint for establishing a climate of creativity at work. You will discover new ways to break through mental barriers, “in-the-box” thinking and frustrating roadblocks. Dispel widely held myths about creativity, including the belief that it must be a solitary act or reserved only for creative risk-takers. Return to work ready to apply the techniques you’ve learned toward improving performance, stimulating creative thinking and unleashing the creative potential in yourself and your team.

When it comes to the success of a virtual team, the buck stops with the team leader. If managed effectively, virtual teams can increase productivity, help meet organizational goals and improve quality of work. But there are a host of unique challenges that can hurt their success. Get ready to discover a proven process and framework to develop the competencies of a virtual leader, and strengthen and enhance the productivity of your virtual team. Learn to leverage the advantages of a virtual team while building trust and making authentic connections with team members. You will then apply and reinforce the learning through case studies, team discussions and other activities led by your expert course leader.

Get skills for coaching employees to improve the effectiveness of individuals and teams! What if you could become an inspiring leader capable of garnering trust and prompting action? During times that would challenge even the most resilient and experienced leaders, it has never been more important to have an arsenal of tools, techniques and best practices for coaching employees to excel. This hands-on course gives them to you—from analyzing the cause of subpar performance to creating a climate for effective employee coaching and learning…from giving feedback to handling difficult responses to coaching. You’ll leave this course more aware of your personal habits, styles and preferences when you are coaching employees, and will master new strategies using assessments, role plays and exercises.

Do you find yourself overloaded with work? Feel so stretched to the limit you can’t set priorities? Exhaust yourself daily without accomplishing your goals? Remember, every minute of your day impacts the business. If you answer yes to one or more of the above, it’s time to make real choices about how to manage your time. This seminar is designed to combat the pitfalls of time management. It will help you identify causes of procrastination and indecision, pinpoint personal time-wasters and increase your concentration and focus. You’ll learn to schedule your time more effectively, stay on track and keep important goals top of mind, so you can stay in balance and be more effective and productive.

Feeling overwhelmed? What if you could learn a process for thinking to make better decisions and create better solutions? In this course, you’ll learn and practice techniques to generate breakthrough ideas and solve your most pressing problems. You’ll also discover how to ask the right questions, challenge assumptions and see others’ viewpoints with clarity. You’ll learn how to: Translate abstract ideas into tangible results Evaluate ideas and adjust assumptions Solve problems based on credible evidence Make dramatically better decisions You’ll also receive: The “My Thinking Styles” assessment, which gauges your thinking style preferences A personalized development report with your individual results and areas for development AMA’s Critical Thinking Model, with an action plan for implementing critical thinking and decision-making skills back at work Pre- and post-seminar assessments Tune-up materials to review what you’ve learned after the event A skill-enabling toolkit, downloadable from the AMA Learning Portal