Strategic Thinking is a 2-day 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.

Learning Objectives

Leverage new skills to support your strategic thinking every day

Apply a process to envision your organization’s desired future

Recognize 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 Context of Strategic Thinking

Define strategic thinking and recognize 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 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 Assess the Current State

Identify the influences and relationships at different levels of an organization that can impact a strategy

Recognize 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 Envision a Desired Future State

Envision a desired future state

Recognize and use thinking skills that support imagining new ways of relating to the market and customers 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 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

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

Learn how to strengthen your strategic thinking skills and encourage it in others. 

Attend this intensive 2-day strategic thinking training programme focused on practical learning, designed and facilitated by business people that  understand your challenges and will guide you to find effective solutions.

Your immediate takeaway:

• Learn to recognise patterns that impact strategy and enhance your abilities to generate new insights and ideas

• Come to your next strategic planning session with the best possible strategic ideas

• Help your business move forward in an increasingly competitive world

This strategic thinking training programme combines proven-by-practice methods with new insights and ideas that will grow your strategic thinking skills. You will gain a wider perspective of strategy through breakout sessions, exercises, and case applications.

How will you benefit?

After participating in this programme, you will grow your strategic thinking skills & competencies and be able to:

• Explore ways to challenge your assumptions and view your business in a new light

• Learn and apply different thinking methods to avoid groupthink

• Control reactive fixes to problems even in an uncertain business environment

• Generate new ideas and evaluate future scenarios before your competitors do

• Know when to embrace necessary risk, even if resources and information are limited

• Learn to create better short-term goals that support longterm strategy During the programme you will:

• Network and learn with a diverse group of peers from different industries and countries in an international environment

• Develop a personal action plan to implement back at work

• Learn and practise new skills using real-business-world examples and exercises over 2 interactive days