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Moving From an Operational Manager to a Strategic Thinker

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Provider:
AMA (American Management Association International)

Topic(s):
Leadership & Management

Who Should Attend?
Managers with 5 years or less of management experience

• AMA's 5-Day MBA Workshop
• Taking On Greater Responsibility

Full Seminar Description

Master strategic thinking—and capture the opportunities of tomorrow!

If you want to move from being a good manager to being a great manager, strategic thinking is imperative. Strategic thinking enables you to tap into the potential of your employees, understand the needs of your customers, and recognize your competition’s game plan.

This seminar offers key insights and ideas into the core skills of strategic thinking as well as actionable steps. Instead of being buried in your department’s ongoing activities, you will become a valuable strategic thinker, an innovator, a persuasive player and a champion for change who adds value to your organization, your customers and your stakeholders.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

Managers with five years or less of management experience who want to move into a more strategic role.

This Seminar Features Blended Learning

AMA Blended Learning combines instructor-led training with online pre- and post-seminar assessments, tune-up courses and other resources to maximize your training goals. Through a blend of proven instructor-led seminars and powerful online technology, AMA Blended Learning provides a compelling and more comprehensive experience for the learner—producing a greater return-on-investment for the employer and the seminar participant.

HOW YOU WILL BENEFIT:

• Inspire and direct your team to greater readiness and competitiveness
• Use strategic thinking to add value to your organization by understanding the needs and expectations of your customers
• Anticipate and innovate strategies to link strategic vision to core capabilities
• Recognize opportunities to influence and create strategic alliances
• Use strategic thinking to identify key strengths and weaknesses in your work group
• Encourage and support risk taking and innovation at all levels
• Develop persuasive skills to sell your strategic ideas

WHAT YOU WILL COVER:

Developing and Balancing Operational and Strategic Management Skills

• Establish a working definition of operational management
• Explore the key attributes of today’s strategic thinkers

Creating a Strategic Frame of Reference

• Understand the key components of the strategic thinking model
• Develop a strategic thinker’s approach for your own work environment

Understanding Your Current Operational Mission: Your Team, Your Customers and Your Competitors

• Strategic thinking: moving from a limited context to a broader view
• Understand how to apply a SWOT analysis to your team
• Create a mission statement defining the operational reality of your work group

Developing a Strategic Vision: Moving from What Is to What If

• How to identify priority issues to create your strategic advantage
• Encourage innovative solutions
• Prepare a draft of a vision statement

Making Your Vision a Reality: Influencing Key Stakeholders

• Develop their persuasive skills
• Explore a range of options for influencing others

Your Personal Plan: Developing and Selling Your Vision of the Future

• Communication strategies to sell your strategic plan
• Conduct key conversations to encourage innovation and risk taking

Extended Description

Learning Objectives

• Define Operational Management and Strategic Thinking
• Understand the Classic Strategic Model
• Develop a SWOT Analysis for Your Work Group
• Create a Target for Future Success
• Develop a Mission Statement for Your Work Group
• Encourage Innovation in Your Team
• Create a Strategic Approach to Your Particular Work Situation

Developing and Balancing Your Operational and Strategic Management Skills

• Establish a Working Definition of Operational Management
• Explore the Key Attributes of Today’s Strategic Thinkers
• Find the Balance Between These Core Competencies
• Reflect on Your Current Use of Operational Management and Strategic Thinking in Your Own Work Setting

Creating a Strategic Frame of Reference

• Understand the Key Components of a Strategic Frame of Reference
• Define Key Outputs at Each Level
• Develop a Strategic Thinker’s Approach for Your Own Work Environment

Understanding Your Current Operational Mission: Your Team, Your Customers and Your Competitors

• Clarify the Purpose of Your Work Group in the Context of Your Organization
• Draft a Mission Statement Defining the Operational Reality of Your Work Group
• Create a SWOT Analysis to Help You Understand Your Team, Your Customers and Your Competitors

Developing a Strategic Vision: Moving from What Is to What If

• Assess Customers’ Needs, Wants and Expectations
• Determine Optimal Approaches for Developing Customer Data and Input
• Learn to Use an Importance/Performance Matrix to Set Priorities for Your Work Group
• Understand the Power of Vision
• Create a Linkage Between the Organizational Vision and Your Work Group’s Mission

Making Your Vision a Reality: Influencing Key Stakeholders

• Develop Persuasive Skills to Sell Your Strategic Ideas
• Explore a Range of Options for Influencing Others
• Assess Your Ability to Encourage Innovation
• Learn How to Conduct 5 Key Conversations to Encourage Innovation in Your Group

Your Personal Plan: Developing and Selling Your Vision of the Future

• Complete a Strategic Frame of Reference for Your Department, Work Unit or Team
• Prepare to Communicate Strategically
• Identify and Practice the Key Conversations You Intend to Have Upon Your Return to Work
• Develop a Personal Plan of Action

Sponsor Background:

• provide comprehensive, hands-on training that is of practical use when you return to the job
• focus on need-to-know specifics, relevant to the demands of global business today
• offer the expertise and personalized attention of top-ranking instructors
• facilitate your career development and business savvy

Whether you're looking for a solid foundation of business fundamentals or strategies to help you seize growth opportunities for your company, AMA offers expert instruction to help you:

• manage your priorities effectively
• cultivate more productive working relationships
• increase your on-the-job value
• align your skills with marketplace demands
• bring out the best in people, processes and yourself

Cancellation and Refund Policy

If you cannot attend a seminar you may contact AMA in advance to transfer to a future session, or can send someone to take your place. If you need to cancel your attendance, AMA will give you a complete refund if you cancel more than three weeks before your seminar begins. To cancel, simply call. If you cancel with less than three weeks' notice, you will be liable for the entire seminar fee, however you may request a courtesy transfer to use at any future AMA seminar of equal or lesser value. The courtesy transfer must be used within one year of the date of your originally scheduled seminar. In fairness to all attendees, if you do not attend a seminar session for which you are confirmed, and do not cancel with a minimum of three weeks’ notice as described above, you will be charged the entire seminar fee.

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