Strategic Thinking™ – Leadership Practices for Innovative Organizations

Dynamic and innovative organizations require leaders at all levels who can think strategically, anticipate issues, solve problems, and make decisions based on new and emerging information while keeping the long-term vision in mind.

In this workshop, you will have the opportunity to work with a variety of tools, applying them to an important challenge or opportunity in your own organization. You will develop greater awareness of your own biases and assumptions that may stand in the way of achieving results. You will learn how and when to apply different types of thinking—systems thinking, critical thinking, and creative thinking—to a problem or opportunity and how to work with stakeholders to make and implement decisions.

This course is available as a 1-day or 2-day program to suit your needs.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Participants will gain the ability to be able to:

• Define strategic, systems, creative, and critical thinking
• Identify aspects of strategic thinking you currently use and those you under-use
• Identify organizational and individual barriers to strategic thinking
• Identify current issues which require strategic thinking
• Ask questions that stimulate strategic thinking in yourself and others
• Apply strategic thinking tools to an important current issue
• Develop approaches to help stakeholders think and act strategically
• Identify other tools which you can learn and apply in the future

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Leaders, project managers, team members, and individual contributors whose work has an impact on the organization’s future.

PREREQUISITE

This course has no prerequisites.

MATERIALS

You will receive a course binder containing a copy of the presentation slides.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN