Advanced Management Skills Program (AMSP)

Obtaining better performance from your employees...
Struggling to find the time to achieve your business goals...
Acquiring better "people skills" to facilitate your next career advancement...
Devising common goals for new teams for which you are responsible...
Finding the help you need to manage and lead others...

If you face these concerns and challenges, then Mahler invites you to attend the Advanced Management Skills Program.

The Advanced Management Skills Program consists of four 3 1/2-day sessions (at 3-month intervals) that will help you to:

Build Your Interpersonal Skills

In module 1, "Leadership and Self Discovery", you'll develop convictions and skills that will guide your transformation to becoming a more effective leader. Utilizing self-assessments, role-plays, instruction in management theories, and feedback from bosses, direct reports, and peers, you'll increase your knowledge and understanding of your impact as a leader. You will explore the discrepancy between your intentions and actions and formulate action plans to bring these into alignment. In addition, you will receive an interpersonal toolkit that provides templates to help you in selecting and terminating associates, providing feedback, coaching and counseling.

Grow Your Business

In this second module "Innovation and Growth Planning", you will be exposed to breakthrough work in creativity and innovation. We will address questions regarding how the best organizations regularly produce breakthrough product and service innovations. You will participate in a competitive simulation that addresses the methodology on innovation. In addition, you will examine your company's current vision and explore ways to address additional business models. You will practice a technique that addresses thinking long term about your business opportunities, building business objectives, identifying significant issues, and examining critical success factors for your business.

Lead Change in Your Organization

In this module, "Leading Organization Change", you will explore what the best minds in the field have to say about the role of executives in leading change. Through tightly focused reading, organization assessments, simulations and case studies, you'll discover the leadership practices that contribute to both successful and unsuccessful change efforts. Whether you need to turn the business around, increase the level of teamwork, move to a new organization structure or implement lean/six sigma, you will learn how to focus on the people side of the equation and to apply real-time solutions to your own business change challenges.

Explore Leadership, Culture, and Change

In this, the final module, "Leadership and Culture", you will explore your role as a leader of organizational culture while being an active participant in the phenomenon of national culture. Using survey feedback, you will explore your emotional readiness to lead others. You will experience a cultural simulation that will enable you to better understand how to lead those in national cultures other than your own as well as to manage organizational culture as a force in your own organization.

Work with your colleagues between classes?

One of the hallmarks of the Mahler Advanced Management Skills Program is that we form "collaborative learning teams" that hold each other accountable for back home experimentation on improvement efforts. You will report back to your "collaborative learning partners" at each session on your back home action plan, whether it is implementing an RIO performance management system, making progress on an organization change or some other personal or organizational improvement effort.

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