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Strategic Thinking

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

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The Key Issues

In the day to day role as a manager, you can often get involved in operational issues and dealing with crises.It is easy to forget about the strategy and the goals sometimes. So it’s important that you make sure to bring strategic thinking into your role and your decisions at all times.

Strategic thinking processes

Understanding influences and relationships in your company

Key Competences​

Assessing your strategy

Generating new ideas

Embracing necessary risks

The Right Programme for You

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.
  • Business Professionals
  • New Managers
  • Managers
  • Senior Managers

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.

Know when to embrace risk and when to avoid it.

Learn, Practice and Use

  • 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 long-term strategy
  • Compare and contrast strategic thinking to analytical thinking, critical thinking and inductive and deductive reasoning
  • Recognize and use thinking skills that support imagining new ways of relating to your market and your customers
  • Share your knowledge and challenges with your peers and MCE's highly experienced faculty

Programme Details

Strategic Thinking is a 2 day hands-on training programme, highly interactive with exercises and role plays. During the programme, you focus on developing your strategic thinking so that decisions you make are linked to the overall strategy and goals. You also learn to follow the key steps that are needed to implement your strategy.

Six Programme Modules

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

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