Strategic Thinking

Strategic thinking in a complex business world

• Strategic thinking is a process: Step-by-step tips you’ll use for years
• What many people wrongly assume about their view of the world
• Creating a vision—it’s easier when you ask this simple question first
• 4 things you need to know before identifying an objective
• How to confidently—and playfully—challenge conventional thinking
• An open mind: How it will absolutely change your thinking and business
• Which is more important—strategic thinking or strategic planning?
• The skill set of all strategic thinkers: Which skills do you need to work on?
• SPECIAL: BONUS! Real-world examples of how successful strategic thinkers are making a difference in their organizations. And how you can learn from their successes and mistakes.

Make better decisions by thinking beyond today

• Flexibility—the breakfast of strategic champions
• Making strategic thinking time a priority—even on the busiest of days
• The future: You don’t have to be a prophet to predict it
• Scanning your external environment for trends and developments that may impact you
• Fend off know-it-alls, experts and other types of people who keep you mired in the past
• The role of hunches in decision making
• 5 great tips for developing your own information-gathering plan

Tools that’ll supercharge your thinking and results

• Asking the questions that make people squirm, stretch, reflect and think beyond “now”
• A big-picture view—the tool strategic thinkers rely on most
• How intuition can be a double-edged sword
• Beyond hard facts and data: Allowing your imagination to kick in
• Mental exercises for breaking free from thinking ruts
• Handling risk—it’s more about attitude than anything else
• Mistakes? There’s no such thing if you’re a true strategic thinker
• CHALLENGE: Bring your own list of tough challenges to this seminar. You’ll take home plenty of food for thought that’ll make solving them easier.

Give your thinking a creative booster shot

• What you know vs. what you think you know: What’s clouding your thinking?
• Using “and” thinking to make sense of opposites and contradictions
• Asking the magical “5 whys”
• How “what if” thinking can help you deal with uncertainty
• Strategies for releasing a flow of original ideas
• Pattern recognition: Your power tool for making effective decisions quickly

Move from strategy into action—the key to results

• Defining specific action steps that will turn your strategy into change
• Why it’s critical you align change from the inside out—not the outside in
• Recognizing potential constraints—both internal and external
• Oops! Don’t make this major communication blunder
• Identifying resources and—just as important—resource gaps
• A useful way to think about making choices and prioritizing your actions
• How an overly detailed plan can be the kiss of death
• Pulling your team together and setting them up for success
• You’ve proposed a plan of action—now assess the pros and cons
• The secret to keeping on track

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