Strategic Thinking

Sharpen your strategic thinking skills and learn how to cultivate them in the people around you. Through real-world case studies and targeted thinking exercises, you will activate your strategic mind, develop the ability to identify emerging patterns that shape organizational direction, and strengthen your capacity to generate fresh insights and creative ideas. Arrive at your next planning session armed with sharper, more forward-looking perspectives that help your business compete effectively in a rapidly changing marketplace.

Who Should Attend:

Individual contributors, managers, directors, and other leaders who need to build strategic thinking capabilities, gain sharper business insights, and identify the trends that contribute to more effective and resilient business strategy.

How You Will Benefit:

• Challenge your assumptions and examine your business from new angles
• Apply diverse thinking methods to break free from groupthink
• Manage reactive problem-fixing even in environments of uncertainty
• Generate innovative ideas and evaluate future scenarios ahead of the competition
• Know when embracing calculated risk is appropriate, even with limited resources or information
• Set short-term goals that are meaningfully aligned with long-term strategic direction

What You Will Cover:

• An introduction to strategic thinking as a new mindset and a new lens for viewing the world
• Spotting macro-environment trends and recognizing meaningful patterns
• Analyzing the business and industry landscape and assessing your organization's current position
• Practicing strategic thinking exercises to build mental agility
• Generating ideas and building plans grounded in a big-picture perspective
• Creating an action plan to develop strategic thinking capacity within yourself and your team