American Airlines Accelerate Program

American Airlines Accelerate Program

Issued by Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning

This badge recognizes the successful completion of a rigorous 20+ week learning experience focused on advancing the leadership skills of selected American leaders, across themes of Engage to Connect, Leading Change and Driving Accountability. Participants also executed an innovative work experiment and engaged in mentorship circles with senior leaders. Accelerate is a customized program tailored to the business context of American Airlines, delivered with Harvard Business Publishing content.

Skills

  • AWE (Accelerate Work Experiment) – to apply learnings for business impact by developing a problem statement, solution hypothesis, experiment for implementation
  • Drive Accountability – Compassionate leadership and clarity to drive accountability
  • Engage to Connect – Fostering trust, credibility, learning & emotional agility, while engaged to bring out the best in others
  • Lead Change – by effective collaboration practices, establishing goals across functions, and sourcing data to ID and solve business challenges

Earning Criteria

  • Engage in 50-60 focused hours of learning across 3 key themes and business project
  • Achieve a minimum 75% completion criteria for assigned readings and applied learning exercises
  • Actively participate via in-person and live virtual sessions, peer discussion forums, expanding learning through guided discussions, self and group reflections