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American Management Association is a world leader in professional development, advancing the skills of individuals to drive business success. AMA’s approach to improving performance combines experiential learning—“learning through doing”—with opportunities for ongoing professional growth at every step of one’s career journey. AMA supports the goals of individuals and organizations through a complete range of products and services, including seminars, Webcasts and podcasts, conferences, corporate and government solutions, business books and research.
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What do you need to know about corporate training? At the Training 2015 Conference and Expo, AMA surveyed human resources professionals to find out how they viewed various aspects of training. See how they responded to six crucial corporate training questions, and how you can better leverage training in your organization.
Who are the leaders that can make the most impact in 2015? AMA came up with a list of leaders to watch in 2015. See who could be making the most influential contributions this year.
What is holding your company back from achieving all of its goals? Even with a stellar plan and top talent, sometimes business do not reach their goals. In a recent, exclusive interview, AMA spoke with Dan King to hear his thoughts on how companies can achieve more through strategic execution. See how you can adopt these principles in your own business, and start accomplishing more of your goals.
Are the best ideas always the ones that make it to the execution stage? Do some ideas remain unspoken in favor of an authority figure’s desires? Cass Sunstein has written about groupthink and social psychology, and recently sat down with AMA for an exclusive interview. See how he would combat groupthink and inspire effective group contributions, so that everyone’s ideas are heard and considered.
In 2014, AMA’s publishing branch, AMACOM books, released many different books for business professionals to improve their personal and professional lives. We are proud to announce that several of these books were nominated for and received awards. This article is a list of the books that won, and are valuable resources that can help you better yourself this year.
We’ve posted on the benefits of PMP® certification before, but AMA wants to know what you think: Will getting the […]
The winner is… Kathy Fossetta! Congratulations to Kathy for winning the 16th AMA Annual Innovation Award, presented at the 22nd Annual APC Conference in National Harbor, Maryland. Kathy’s idea to streamline communication at the Geisinger Community Medical Center saved her center hundreds of thousands of dollars, and earned her this prestigious award. We offer our congratulations to Kathy again, and good luck to all administrative professionals for next year!
There is a huge project coming up and you want to take the lead, but are you the right person […]
Communication tops the list of skills training provided to individual contributors. This according to a survey of executives and managers […]
Global competencies and capabilities are crticial to organizational effectiveness and keeping a competitive edge. Unfortunately, less than half of organizations […]
