Essentials of Strategic Thinking
What you'll learn
- How to think strategically, even though you don't set strategy for your business
- How to apply strategic thinking to business challenges, no matter where you are in the organization.
- How to use a simple tool to contemplate the future of your business.
- How to apply the basics of critical thinking to your business
Requirements
- Basic understanding of business
- A willingness to complete basic thinking exercies
Description
All of us think, but some of us think better than others. And better thinking is needed at all levels during times of "creative destruction."
This course will provide practical tools and techniques to improve skills that are needed as we undertake the basic strategic thinking responsibilities of all emerging or established leaders. We are expected to: SENSE the signals of change; MAKE SENSE of these signals ; DECIDE on a course of action; and ACT AND LEARN.
Who this course is for:
- Leaders and professionals who have to support business priorities
- Business people who wish to progress in their organization
- Emerging leaders
Course content
- Preview02:19
- Preview04:40
- Preview06:01
- 05:21Introduction to the Sense-Response Cycle
Instructor
My views of thinking skills have evolved over the past fifty years of work and exploration through my four career choices: military (USMC,); engineering, business and manufacturing consulting, and education / training.
I explored some of my views about business thinking while authoring or coauthoring five book: The Prepared Mind of a Leader (2006); ReThink, ReInvent, RePosition (2010), Rightsizing Your Business (2011), MindLab II (2012), and Demystifying Business Strategy (2019).
I have conducted hundreds of workshops focused on critical and strategic thinking for large and small businesses around the world.