AMA’s Business Acumen Challenge: A Simulation Experience for Leaders Seminar # 2137
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Learn the complexity of running a company—and build your business acumen—by engaging in a business simulation that covers a full range of leadership and strategy topics!
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When you take part in AMA’s Business Acumen Challenge, a highly interactive, simulation-based seminar, you’ll be a member of the management team of a start-up company. As your team develops multiple strategies around products, marketing and other functional areas, you’ll experience—in real time—how your actions contribute to the company’s success (or failure) and how your decisions affect the organization’s critical units. In just three days you’ll increase your business acumen, expand your point of view and gain many years’ worth of business insight!
How You Will Benefit
- Build your business acumen and get the “big picture” of business operations
- Understand the interdependency of your organization’s functional units
- Gain insight into developing, executing and measuring the success of a strategy
- Discover how functional units interact as a result of your strategic decisions
- Get exposure to financial data as a tool to analyze and make strategic decisions
- Better understand personal leadership and cross-functional communication
What You Will Cover
- The importance of aligning business units with organizational strategy
- Understanding how each unit’s strategy affects other operating units
- Creating and maintaining high-performing teams
- Team leadership vs. team membership
- Cross-functional communication and methods for overcoming “silo effects”
- The need for continuous, consistent and ongoing communication
- Making effective decisions about resource allocation
- Understanding the range of resources that need management in a complex business setting
Who Should Attend
Vice presidents, directors, division managers across all functional units who wish to develop their business acumen and increase their contribution enterprise-wide.