Equip your leaders with new mindsets and capabilities to lead with purpose in a complex world
The ICMIF Advanced Management Course was relaunched as an in-person event in 2023, featuring new content on leading with purpose and how to activate strategy in purpose-driven organisations.
The new-look course was a resounding success, with two sets of dates needed to cope with the unprecedented demand from ICMIF members. A record number of 50 participants from 25 member organisations from 19 countries attended the course in 2023.
For over 20 years, managers from more than 100 ICMIF member organisations from 50+ countries have praised ICMIF’s Advanced Management Course (AMC) for the ways in which the course helped them to enhance both their own performance and that of their organisation. In 2024, the focus of the AMC will continue to be to make it easier for leaders and managers to increase their company’s organisational agility and therefore its ability to thrive in a complex world, while harnessing the power of purpose. Participants will acquire tools and frameworks, built on insights from behavioural economics, to transform the culture of how networks of teams make sense of evolving challenges and work together to drive the organisation to fulfil its purpose.
Participants have reported that they emerge from the course seeing the world clearer, with a new set of collaborators and friends from around the world that act as both a support and a challenge network, and emerging with a set of actions and new behaviours for themselves.
You can hear the feedback and testimonials from the May 2023 course participants in this video.
https://player.vimeo.com/video/846224997?h=14be1a79b3
Who should attend?
This course is aimed at senior managers and leaders of change from mutual or cooperative insurers who lead teams which are required to tackle complex situations, formulating strategies to achieve their organisation’s purpose, and leading programmes that translate strategy into action.
Participants of the Advanced Management Course include a mix of technical insurance and non-technical people, reflecting the typical make-up of a mutual/cooperative insurer.
Participants must be comfortable holding strategic conversations in English.
Forthcoming dates
13 – 17 May 2024, Manchester UK.
Participants will need to be ready to start the course activities at 6pm on Monday 13 May 2024 and the course will finish at 3pm on Friday 17 May 2024.
Course fee: GBP 3,850 including all accommodation (up to 5 nights) and meals during the course.
Please contact Mike Ashurst to discuss the 2024 Advanced Management Course or any of ICMIF’s Leadership Development opportunities and learn how your organisation can benefit.
“It’s a unique opportunity to bring a lot of like-minded people from like-minded organisations together, but with very different cultural backgrounds. That’s a real benefit of the ICMIF model.”
Glenn Croasdale, Chief Client Officer, FMG (New Zealand)
Benefits of the course
Alumni of the Advanced Management Course report improved outcomes following their attendance on the course. Participants emerge with new approaches to help them maximise their impact in a complex world. In particular, they will learn how to overcome three critical challenges when tackling complex problems:
- People are not rational.
- Expertise is important, but no longer sufficient.
- Most of people’s behaviour is automatic.
Prior participants describe improved personal performance after the course when leading and managing in conditions of uncertainty and ambiguity by them applying the AMC’s mental models, conceptual frameworks and simple tools for:
- Harnessing the power of purpose.
- How to activate strategy in purpose-driven organisations.
- Working as a team to tackle complex situations.
- Effective collaboration.
- Developing psychological safety.
- Thinking and innovating strategically as a team.
- Leading across cultures.
- Building a purpose-driven learning system.
- Peer to peer consultancy and translating learning into value.
Alumni of the Advanced Management Course report improved outcomes following their attendance on the course. Many describe it as “the fog clearing” as the models, frameworks and tools they have acquired during the course are put into use once they have returned to the workplace. What may have previously seemed like unrelated areas of leadership and management become a simple, integrated, mutually reinforcing approach to finding solutions to their challenges. In this way, prior participants have said they arrive with expertise and leave with wisdom.
For more information on the Advanced Management Course in general and details of forthcoming courses please contact Mike Ashurst.
