Develop your strategic mindset to increase the overall success of your strategic plans


Highlights:
• Compare and contrast strategic thinking to analytical thinking, critical thinking, and inductive and deductive reasoning
• Create an action plan for development of strategic thinking skills in your role

Key Competences:
• Strategic thinking processes
• Understanding influences and relationships in your company
• Assessing your strategy
• Generating new ideas
• Embracing necessary risks

Strategic Thinking is a hands-on training programme, highly interactive with exercises and role plays. The programme will be led by an experienced facilitator with former management experience in international companies.
 

6 Programme Modules:

• Leverage New Skills to Support Your Strategic Thinking Every Day
• Apply a Process to Envision Your Organization's Desired Future
• Recognise the Influences Within and Outside Your Organization That Could Support or Derail Your Future Goals
• Identify the Changes Necessary to Reach Your Future Goals
• Expand the Number of Perspectives That Influence Your Moves Forward
• Create a Plan for Building Skills and Testing Your Ideas

1 - Context of Strategic Thinking

• Define Strategic Thinking and Recognise How It Can Be Used in Your Day-to-Day Work
• Compare and Contrast Strategic Thinking to Analytical Thinking, Critical Thinking, and Inductive and Deductive Reasoning
• Identify the Characteristics of Strategic Thinkers

2 - Strategic Thinking Process and Skills

• Explain a Model for Strategic Thinking in Day-to-Day Activities and Work Applications
• List Skills and Tools That Can Be Used to Support Strategic Thinking

3 - Assess the Current State

• Identify the Influences and Relationships at Different Levels of an Organization That Can Impact a Strategy
• Recognise and Identify Patterns of Interaction and Development That Are Likely to Influence the Effectiveness of a Strategy
• Incorporate Multiple Perspectives on a Possible Strategy, and Assess Different Influences on the Potential Success

4 - Envision a Desired Future State

• Envision a Desired Future State
• Recognise and Use Thinking Skills That Support Imagining New Ways of Relating to the Market and Customers

5 - Build Your Path on Paper

• Identify and Sequence the Multiple Steps to Move from the Current State of the Issue/Opportunity to the Desire Future State
• Anticipate the Reactions/Responses of Others in the Larger Systems Impacting Your Situation
• Identify and Conduct Experiments and Tests That Point Your Way Forward

6 - Implement Your Strategic Knowledge and Skills

• Assess What You Gained from Applying Strategic Thinking Tools to Your Project
• Anticipate Pitfalls You May Encounter as a Strategic Thinker
• Create an Action Plan for Development of Strategic Thinking Skills

You are a manager, director or leader who needs strategic thinking skills to gain better business insights and identify trends that can contribute to a more successful business strategy.


Typical Participants:
• Senior Managers
• Managers