Best executive courses in Chicago (United States)

American Management Association

Leadership Skills and Team Development for Technical Professionals

Join the technical professionals who are enhancing their team-building and leadership skills with AMA Leaders of technical professionals face a substantial challenge: to achieve successful task completion through positive work relationships. Leadership team development is your ticket to getting...

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Preparing for Leadership: What it Takes to Take the Lead

Do you need leadership training to prepare you to take that next step? Learn how to get noticed and selected for a leadership position and develop effective leadership skills required from confident leaders. This leadership training course is uniquely designed to help leaders-to-be get ready for...

American Management Association

Leadership and Team Development for Managerial Success

Get effective leadership skills for managers to inspire and influence your people to achieve team goals! When should you be a motivator...and when should you be a coach? Can you empower team members to self-manage? Or do your teams fall apart when you're not there? Learn how to foster team...

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Management Skills for New Managers

Gain the core management skills you need to succeed! Successful managers get things done. Learn the art of management that sets you apart—FAST. Using extensive guided role plays, self-audits and in-depth skills exercises, you will explore motivation, delegation, coaching, communication,...

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Managing the Unmanageable: Tough People, Tough Situations

Be empowered to deal with challenges that impede morale and productivity One of the toughest parts of a manager’s job is dealing with and turning around problem employees. Whether it’s passive/aggressive direct reports or conflict resulting from generational or cultural differences, the issues...

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Improving Your Project Management Skills: the Basics for Success

Build a solid foundation of project management knowledge, techniques and tools in this hands-on workshop that covers the entire project life cycle. As the business world grows more competitive, organizations find it necessary to take on an increasing number of projects. Unfortunately, these same...

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Principles of Professional Selling

Thousands of salespeople have prospered by attending AMA’s most popular professional sales training seminar. No matter how great your product or service is, or how talented a salesperson you are, you will not be able to close the deal if you cannot tell your clients how what you’re selling will...

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Critical Thinking

Demonstrate clearer and more effective thinking in business Feeling overwhelmed? What if you could learn a process for thinking to make better decisions and create better solutions? Learn hands-on techniques to generate breakthrough ideas and solve your most pressing problems. In this course,...

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Strategic Thinking

Develop a strategic mindset to increase the success of your strategic plans. Learn how to strengthen your strategic thinking skills and encourage it in others. Through case studies and practical thinking exercises, you’ll stimulate your strategic thinking, learn to recognize patterns that impact...

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Effective Executive Speaking

Take your public speaking to the next level! Speak, present and communicate with poise, power and persuasion. From presentations to public speeches, your effectiveness as an executive and future career hinge on your ability to step up to the podium, command attention and transform every...