Executive Development Program (Community)

Community Markets

March 31 - April 4, 2008

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Featured Discussion Leaders

Ed Baron President, Ed Baron & Associates, Inc. Session: Team facilitator.

 
Presented in partnership with Suburban Newspapers of America. SNA members receive an additional tuition discount by registering and paying through SNA. For more information, please click on the SNA logo above.

Dynamic media-leadership experience that prepares new and future senior executives for the challenges and opportunities of our industry’s rapidly changing future.

Who Should Attend?
New publishers and general managers; department heads, editors, managers and directors poised for senior leadership roles; strong functional leaders who seek a deeper understanding of the entire organization; and executives new to the newspaper industry.

What It Is

• A powerful, dynamic learning experience… five virtual years running a complex media organization in an intense 5-day computer simulation program developed specifically for community markets.  Participants discuss and debate dozens of case studies and hundreds of operational decisions representing every department of the media organization. 
• The only computer simulation that accurately reflects the culture, challenges and operational issues of running a daily news publishing organization.  Participants receive immediate feedback on the results of their decisions, allowing them to better understand the myriad tradeoffs and consequences involved.  The lessons form a strong foundation for the leaders of today, and tomorrow.
• Includes full integration of the strategies and tools of API’s groundbreaking Newspaper Next industry transformation initiative.   Participants will come away with practical concepts, tools and processes for navigating a bright media future.

How Your Organization Will Benefit
In less than a week, API’s Executive Development Program prepares executives for assuming the leadership positions that will shape their company’s future. Topics covered include:

• Strategic decision-making
• Operational implementation
• Competitive challenges and responses
• Innovation and portfolio expansion
• Multiple, interconnected drivers of audience and revenue growth
• Ethical decision-making and news values
• Coaching and developing executive and managerial staff

For more detailed examples of the types of decisions you’ll face in the simulation, click here.

Special Bonus Benefits

Customized Newspaper Next Workshop

Seminar members will learn to apply the strategies and tools of API’s groundbreaking initiative for industry transformation -- both within the simulation environment and in their’ own “real world” markets.  Attendees will leave the workshop with …

• A better understanding of the forces disrupting the newspaper business
• A new way to see and tap the vast realms of opportunity this disruption presents
• A clear, practical process — the N2 Innovation Method — to unlock these opportunities with new products and services while minimizing cost and risk
• A strategic framework — the N2 Game Plan — outlining the four areas of opportunity newspaper organizations should pursue, and some of the most promising possibilities in each area.

Leadership Aptitude and Practices Survey™ (LAPS)

An exceptional personal development tool for senior leaders.  Participants receive confidential feedback on their current leadership effectiveness and the effectiveness of the leadership team at their organizations, gathered through the Web-based LAPS instrument.  Includes individualized feedback and complimentary coaching for one year via telephone and e-mail.

Available in Two Versions

The Community Markets version of this seminar focuses on opportunities to strengthen and grow a local news organization against multiple strong competitors.  It is targeted for participants from daily newspapers with less than 75,000 circulation and from urban weekly organizations.

A separate Metro Markets session is targeted for participants from daily newspapers with circulations of 75,000 or more.  For more information, click here.

What Alumni Say
“I came to think about ways to change.  I left changing the way I think.”

Bob Miller, Managing Editor, Southeast Missourian, Cape Girardeau, Mo.

“Thanks, API team. I had hoped for a meaningful experience professionally and personally. What I got was one that romped, stomped, smoked and stroked! The most enriching professional development I've been through in a 25-year career.”

Bob Hale, Publisher, Juneau (Alaska) Empire

“Without question the most entertaining, useful, practical and though provoking seminar I have ever attended.”

Jeff Findley, Publisher, Roanoke-Chowan News Herald, Ahoskie, N.C.

The Particulars

Please read:
:: API's Registration, Tuition and Hotel Policies
:: Special requirements for international members

Tuition: $3,150

Hotel/Meal Package: $1,225.
This charge is in addition to the tuition fee, and is paid directly to the hotel by the seminar member upon checkout.

Location: Reston, Virginia

(This seminar has already occured)