Virtual CA-AM Exam Prep Workshop

Course Dates and Times:

Wednesday, June 15 | 11:00AM - 3:30PM EDT US
Thursday, June 16 | 11:00AM - 3:30PM EDT US

Overview

Do you want to validate and strengthen your alliance management expertise? Increase your alliance IQ?

The Certificate of Achievement - Alliance Management (CA-AM) Virtual review workshop is designed to reinforce and refresh concepts covered in the CA-AM exam. This interactive workshop begins with a review of key alliance concepts and then moves to a case scenario analysis designed to encourage conversation and clarification of those concepts. Each module concludes with a summary of key takeaways. In addition, this workshop will support the necessary foundation of concepts, principals, and proven best practices that can be rapidly applied into daily activities to improve results and needed to be a credible and effective partner.

Based on the principles covered in The ASAP Handbook of Alliance Management: A Practitioner's Guide, this course addresses the following areas covered in the CA-AM exam:

• Alliance Life Cycle Framework
• Strategic Rationale and Readiness
• Alliance Selection
• Alliance Execution
• Planning and Organizing Skills
• Management and Leadership Skills

ASAP professional alliance management certification translates into better business outcomes:

• Streamlines and reduces your alliance team's time and effort in supporting partnerships
• Strengthens the connection between strategy and day-to-day implementation
• Helps foresee and mitigate significant partnership and alliance risks
• Fosters greater value creation through partnership and alliance insights, lessons learned, and enhanced efficiency
• Improves partnership and alliance portfolio success rates

Workshop bundle includes: participation in two half-day virtual workshop sessions, a four-week subscription to The ASAP Handbook of Alliance Management (eBook) to use as a study guide when preparing for the exam, and the CA-AM Exam. The CA-AM prep workshop is a requirement for becoming certified.

Start and End Time: Please note that the workshop begins at 11:00 AM EDT and ends at 3:30 PM EDT on each day.

Facilitator

Lynda McDermott, CA-AM
Founding President, EquiPro International Ltd.

Lynda McDermott is founding President of EquiPro International Ltd., an international management consulting and executive coaching firm. She has worked in over 35 countries setting up and developing leadership, product, research and alliance teams. She is an instructor for ASAP's CA-AM certification program and TE-AM Alliance workshop and is an official ASAP Educator Provider Partner. McDermott works with such companies as Pfizer, Moffitt Cancer Research Center, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Biogen Idec, and Sanofi. She is a best-selling author, a certified speaking professional, and adjunct faculty member on alliances for the American Management Association.

Lynda is also the Founding President of the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association of Florida and the Tampa Bay Chapter Chair of the Women President's Organization.

"My membership and CA-AM certification set me apart from other business professionals." -- Karen Coffman, Director Alliance Management Astra Zeneca