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Achieving Managerial Excellence Programme (AME)

Soft skills for business

The CEDEP AME is a fully-immersive 9-day programme that helps managers and functional leaders develop a wide range of soft skills crucial for success in our interconnected and competitive world.

Excelling on functional expertise alone is no longer enough. Instead, today’s leaders are required to develop an enterprise perspective and collaborate across functions, business units and regions to have real organisational impact. Connecting with stakeholders beyond the functional specialty is vital to gain support for new ideas and execute them successfully. This is where soft skills become essential.

AME reinforces participants’ ability to lead and follow in today’s constantly changing, high-pressure and volatile business world. And real-life business challenges are at the core of this collaborative programme. Participants are asked to bring a relevant business challenge to the sessions where they will directly apply their deep-dive learnings as the programme evolves. They will acquire a profound knowledge of themselves, their decisions and other perspectives to better analyse situations and solve problems in a more pragmatic and impactful way.

Main Objectives

As a highly-interactive programme, AME helps participants adopt the right mindset and tools to foster collaboration and drive team performance based on their real-life experiences, personality and background.

It takes them on a journey to develop the soft skills needed to successfully make the shift from doing things themselves, to getting things done with and through others.

→ Create the opportunity for collaboration and change in your organisation – across functions and beyond

→ Navigate the corporate landscape effectively to engage commitment

→ Explore emerging levers to thrive in a digitalised, diverse and complex world

→ Develop the communication skills and performance skills to be an inspiring, dynamic leader.

Learning Journey

AME is structured to enable participants to network, share and learn from the experiences of others. By collaborating with other managers from diverse cultures and industries, they will integrate their learnings and receive the feedback required to understand themselves, their behaviours and the current impact of their leadership style.

This collaboration reveals how to break free from personal restraints and provides more clarity on how to solve problems and conflict in a variety of real-life situations.

During this unique and powerful journey of personal and professional growth, participants will:

→ Acquire a deep knowledge of themselves, their decisions and other perspectives to better analyse situations and solve problems in a pragmatic way

→ Learn how to effectively collaborate across functions, cultures and geographies and boost efficiency by turning inter-cultural differences into an asset

→ Go back to work re-energised with new ideas and concrete actionable steps to create the right context for change, drive their business challenge forward and make real business impact

→ Have the skills and confidence to give their teams the support they need to drive performance and create a ripple effect within their organisation

Nana vON BERNUTH

programme director

Professor and Business Coach with a focus on Leadership, Strategy and Innovation

‘What got you here won’t even keep you here. Technical skills we teach today will not be relevant in 10 years but ‘soft skills’ remain.’

9Programme details

Ideal participant

The CEDEP AME Programme is for managers and functional leaders whose success depends on connecting and engaging people and teams, and working effectively across different functions, cultures and regions. They may also be in charge of implementing important initiatives within their organisation.

Ideal for high potential leaders who have gained managerial experience on-the-job and are ready to expand their horizons, breakdown silos, have more responsibility, and lead larger transversal teams.

Format
In-person

Location
CEDEP campus in Fontainebleau, France

Duration
9 days

Language

English

Dates

18 April → 27 April 2023

10 October → 19 October 2023

9 April 2024 → 18 April 2024

8 October 2024 → 17 October 2024

Tuition fees 2023 (excl.tax)

€ 12,550

Board & Accommodation 2023

€ 2,050

Please find here the AME brochure

Please find here the AME flyer

Programme participant testimonials

SILVIA SEPULVEDA CANOVAS DEL CASTILLO

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & STRATEGY MANAGER, GSL MANAGER TRANSFER PRICING – INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE TAX – PRIVIATE CLIENTS, WTS

Participating in CEDEP’s Achieving Managerial Excellence (AME) programme in Fontainebleau is a strong and life-changing experience.

SÉBASTIEN LEROY

CHIEF OPEN INNOVATION OFFICER, DAHER

The Achieving Managerial Excellence (AME) programme has been an incredible deep dive experience in technical and emotional management issues

MORTEN KOLBERG

DIRECTOR MANUFACTURING EXPERIENCE, NNE (DENMARK)

‘The CEDEP AME teaching and personal coaching was a truly life-changing experience!’

MARK HAMMOND

SENIOR DIRECTOR CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE (CX) AND USER EXPERIENCE (UX), GARRETT (INDIA)

‘The course was one of the best I have been in. Just brilliant. It has helped me so much in my time running the Garrett India region for the last 10 months, especially with so much change, talk about a VUCA world!’