This advanced program develops strategic leadership capabilities enabling professionals to think strategically, initiate and manage organizational change, drive innovation, and build agile organizational systems. Participants gain access to proven frameworks for strategy development, agility cultivation, and fostering the creative innovation required for competitive advantage in rapidly changing business environments.
The program comprises 292 minutes of instruction across 14 comprehensive lessons, equivalent to 0.5 continuing education units and 5 professional development hours. Each module addresses a distinct strategic leadership competency.
Program Curriculum Highlights
Psychological Safety in Strategic Environments teaches the creation of trusting team conditions necessary for candid strategic discussion, innovation advocacy, and organizational transformation.
Navigating Disruption and Breakthrough Growth develops capabilities to recognize disruption elements, leverage adaptability during transitions, and capitalize on change for competitive growth.
Building 360-Degree Networks teaches network development and leadership strategies for successfully executing projects and launching strategic initiatives across organizational boundaries.
Persuasive Influence Techniques develops strategies for becoming a more persuasive leader capable of influencing stakeholders, driving organizational priorities, and mobilizing resources for strategic initiatives.
Leading Teams Through Ambiguity teaches how to embrace uncertain conditions as innovation opportunities, leveraging team agility and creative problem-solving to propel organizational progress.
Growth Strategy Development addresses when and how organizations build capabilities, acquire complementary businesses, or establish strategic partnerships to achieve market growth objectives.
Strategic Thinking and Communication develops capabilities for learning and applying strategic thinking frameworks and communicating strategic concepts across organizational levels.
Change Management Fundamentals teaches managers to define change needs, identify change drivers, and assume effective change leadership roles during organizational transitions.
Addressing Resistance to Change provides specific communication tactics for driving change adoption and addressing employee concerns and objections during organizational transitions.
Creativity-to-Innovation Process provides an overview and guidance for the five-phase creativity-to-innovation conversion process, including stakeholder buy-in strategies.
Fostering Organizational Creativity explores enablers and motivators for catalyzing creative and innovative thinking throughout organizations, maximizing performance and competitive advantage.
Organizational Agility Development teaches SEAL approach methodology, enabling organizations to respond successfully to competitive threats, technological disruption, and market shifts.
Strategy Development and Implementation addresses stakeholder identification, data management, input collection, and strategic adjustment procedures, ensuring stakeholder buy-in and execution success.
ADEPTT Strategic Model teaches the application of a comprehensive model for analyzing current organizational states, defining future goals, engaging key resources, planning execution, troubleshooting implementation barriers, and tracking progress.
Program Value and Membership
Course purchase includes a complimentary annual membership with the American Management Association, unlocking access to a comprehensive on-demand library containing over 100 professional development lessons in analytical skills, artificial intelligence, management and leadership, presentation approaches, and additional professional topics supporting career development.
