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AMA Business Boot Camp: Management and Leadership

Boost your management and leadership skills with the comprehensive Business Boot Camp from the esteemed American Management Association. Gain insights into personality types, communication techniques, performance management, project management, and strategic planning. Elevate your abilities and become a more effective manager and leader.

  • All levels
  • 21 and older
  • $2,495
  • Live, interactive online classroom
  • 46 hours & 30 minutes over 6 sessions

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  • $2,495
  • Live, interactive online classroom
  • 46 hours & 30 minutes over 6 sessions
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  • Thu, May 16 at 9:00am - 5:00pm
  • Fri, May 17 at 9:00am - 4:30pm
  • Thu, Aug 01 at 9:00am - 5:00pm
  • Fri, Aug 02 at 9:00am - 4:30pm
  • Mon, Nov 18 at 10:00am - 6:00pm
  • Tue, Nov 19 at 10:00am - 5:30pm
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Description

What you'll learn in this general management training:

AMA Business Boot Camp: Management and Leadership Essentials

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.

What You will Cover

LESSON 1
The Role of a Manager

  • Understanding the Golden Personality Type Profiler as a tool to identify personality types and their impact at work
  • Recognizing the eight roles of a manager
  • Applying the best communication techniques to different scenarios
  • Creating a motivational workplace

LESSON 2
Performance Management

  • Hiring and selecting people
  • Coaching to boost performance
  • Delegating for growth and development

LESSON 3
Project Management

  • Tools for planning a project
  • Balancing six factors: time, cost, scope, risk, resources and quality
  • Understanding the human side of project management
  • Clearly understanding a project’s scope, constraints and deliverables
  • Applying best practices to execute and complete your projects

LESSON 4
Strategic Planning Thinking and Leadership

  • Developing a strategic mindset to succeed despite continual change
  • Applying the Strategic Frame of Reference to move forward strategically
  • Creating a clear and compelling vision
  • Applying SWOT analysis to create a strategic advantage

Outline: 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  • Assess Your Core Management Competencies and Skills
  • Examine How an Understanding of Personality Types Can Influence Your Effectiveness as a Manager
  • Identify Areas to Strengthen, Reenergize and Calibrate Your Management Skills

LESSON ONE

Assessing Your Full Management Potential

  • Define the Role of Manager
  • Explain How Your Personality Type Influences Your Role as a Manager
  • Recognize the Importance of Creating the Right Environment
  • Describe the Importance of Communication for Effective Management

LESSON TWO

Strengthening Your Team

  • Define Performance Management
  • Discuss the Need for Executing Good Performance Planning and the Best Practices That Enable This (i.e., Questioning/Listening)
  • Explain the Importance of Motivation in Relation to Performance Management
  • Practice Feedback Coaching Techniques

LESSON THREE

Maintaining Healthy Projects

  • Distinguish Between Projects and Operations
  • Define the Role of the Manager in the Project
  • Apply Techniques and Skills to Define the Work to Be Done
  • Practice Delegation Techniques to Manage a Project’s Resources Appropriately
  • Discuss the Importance of Good Communication Skills in Project Management
  • Exercise Good Meeting Skills to Effectively Manage a Project

LESSON FOUR

Building Your Leadership Endurance

  • Distinguish Between Management and Leadership
  • Discuss the Different Ways People Think Strategically
  • Explain How Having a Strategic Mindset Is Essential to Leadership
  • Determine Ways to Establish Credibility
  • Explore How Motivation and Demotivation of Others Can Affect Your Ability to Lead Successfully
  • Identify a Leader’s Sources of Power and Influence
  • Describe Ways That Leaders Can Build Their Power and Influence

Remote Learning

This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.

Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.

Refund Policy

For Classroom, Live Online, Express Skills Courses and Webinar programs, you may transfer to a future session, send someone to take your place, or cancel for a 5% fee up to 23 days prior to your program.

If you provide AMA with less than 23 days’ notice, or fail to attend, you will be liable for the entire program fee.

Programs included in AMA On Demand offerings are not eligible for substitution, transfer, cancellation, return, or refund. We appreciate that this is an important investment for you and your company and would like to accommodate your needs the best we can.

Please email us at [email protected]

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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