May 5, 2008
Napa, California
The challenges facing port leaders today—including trade growth, enhanced security, and competing stakeholder interests—call forth a new level of leadership capability. Not only do port leaders need to be resilient in coping with and leading change, they also need to think more strategically about the challenges they face to identify innovative solutions. As Albert Einstein suggested, “The world we have made, as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far, creates problems we cannot solve at the same level of thinking at which we created them.” AAPA’s Executive Management Conference, offered since 1969, is designed to address timely port leadership issues and trends. Facilitator Byron Hanke, PPM®, retired Executive Director of the Port of Vancouver, USA has brought together a host of experienced port executive directors, senior line department managers, and other maritime industry professionals to share the essentials of port leadership and management. Discover solutions to today’s most pressing port challenges! Session Topics Include: • Addressing Port Challenges Through Strategic Thinking • Planning for Future Transportation Technologies • A Port’s Institutional Setting and the Implications for Port Managers • Port Development and Operational Strategies in a Changing World • Managing Legal Challenges in the Public Port Environment
05/05/2008
Welcoming Remarks/Orientation
05/05/2008
Port Management – Part One
A Review of the Port’s Institutional Setting & the Implications for Port Managers
Port Development and Operational Strategies
05/05/2008
Broadening Industry Awareness – Part One
Key Industry Issues and the New Normalcy
Workshop Team Assignment #1
05/05/2008
Leadership Skills – Part One
Workshop Team Meetings
Leadership – Leading for Results
How to Influence and Build Personal Effectiveness
Team Discussion on Strategic Thinking
05/06/2008
Port Management – Part Two
Timely Considerations for Strategic Port Management
05/06/2008
Leadership Skills – Part Two
Team Reports on Strategic Thinking
05/07/2008
Leadership Skills – Part Three
Port Leadership in the “New Normalcy”
Case Study on the “New Normalcy” – Evolving Challenges at the Port of Long Beach
05/08/2008
Broadening Industry Awareness – Part Two
Planning for Future Transportation Realities
Workshop Team Assignment: Exercise #2 Case Study
05/08/2008
Port Management – Part Three
Port Sustainability — Balancing Competing Priorities
Port Security Considerations
Effective Communications and Outreach
Port Legal Issues
Ethical Considerations in Professional Port Management
Workshop Team Meetings
Mr. Brinson
05/09/2008
Workshop Team Presentations
Takeaways for Port Professional Development
