Course description
Strategic Thinking: In-House Training
The goal of this course is to provide you with the building blocks and the motivation to develop the critical skill of strategic thinking. The participants will consider a four-part model that distinguishes strategic thinking from strategic planning and managing. With that understanding, you will investigate the critical components of strategic thinking and how to apply it effectively.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Who Should Attend
Anyone who wishes to:
- Proactively connect their everyday work to a higher level organizational context
- Improve personal effectiveness through innovative thinking
- Do more with less in a small group or team environment
Outcome / Qualification etc.
What you Will Learn
- Define strategic thinking and distinguish it from strategic planning and management
- Explain a high-level approach to gaining strategic thinking skills
- Integrate other interpersonal skills, such as self-awareness, systems thinking, leadership, constructive conflict, and collaboration, into the fabric of strategic thinking skills
- Select appropriate techniques to apply strategic thinking in specific situations
- Recognize and emulate effective strategic thinking behaviors
Training Course Content
Getting Started
- Introductions
- Course structure
- Course goals and objectives
Foundation Concepts
- Interactive event: Define Strategic Thinking (ST)
- Interactive event: Discuss relationship of ST with Strategic Planning, Management and Decision Making
- Strategic Level Framework – Tying it all together
- Strategic thinking attributes
Strategic Thinking Critical Success Factors
- Strategic Thinking Critical Success Factors – 5-part model
- Strategic Thinking and the Organization
- Critical Success Factors Model applied to an organization
- Tools Introduction (5): Environmental, 5 Forces, SWOT, Value Proposition, Integral Theory of Worldview
- Video: Fog of War
- Strategic Thinking and the Individual
- Critical Success Factors Model applied to an individual
- Tools Introduction (5): Thinking Styles, Six Thinking Hats, Reverse Thinking, Systems Thinking, Integral Theory of Worldview
Strategic Thinking at the Interpersonal and Team Levels
- Emotional Intelligence – Self Awareness and Working With Others
- Team Leadership and Trust
- Constructive Conflict as the Gateway to Collaboration
- Interactive event: Testing the Models – Challenge Perspective; What’s Missing
Applying the critical skill of Strategic Thinking
- Worldview: Team versus client
- Trusted Advisor
- Interactive event: Doing what is asked (Case study, wherein participants review the default case scenario prepared for this workshop and add specific details to make the scenario more relevant to their experiences / needs. Teams develop an action plan for applying ST concepts and techniques they have learned here to the situation, then compare and contrast results.)
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