Moving from an Operational Manager to a Strategic Thinker Seminar # 2242

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, especially when markets are erratic and unpredicable. 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.

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

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.

Additional Information

• Extended Seminar Description
• Faculty Info
• Seminar Hours
• Accreditation and Continuing Education Units
• Travel and Accommodations
• Cancellation Policy
• Federal Government Employee Discounts
• On-Site Delivery

Registration Fee

2 days / 1.2 CEUs
Nonmembers $1,995 / AMA Members $1,795 / GSA $1,537

Schedule

We have 36 scheduled sessions located nationwide starting between January 26, 2009 and October 1, 2009.

• Call 1-877-566-9441 for an AMA Training Consultant.
• E-mail customerservice@amanet.org
• Fax AMA Text Registration Form
• Mail AMA Text Registration Form