Strategic Thinking

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Strategic Thinking

American Management Association
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Develop a strategic mindset to increase the success of your strategic plans.In recent years, an unsettling number of companies have failed to grow or collapsed completely—from long-established giants to smaller-scale businesses. Blame usually goes to the economy, but that’s only part of the problem. The bigger culprit is often a failure in strategic thinking, which becomes painfully clear in hindsight. Unfortunately, many leaders do little to employ systematic strategic thinking in their organizations. This seminar will help you learn how to strengthen your strategic thinking skills and encourage it in others. Through case studies and practical thinking exercises, you’ll stimulate your strat…

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Develop a strategic mindset to increase the success of your strategic plans.In recent years, an unsettling number of companies have failed to grow or collapsed completely—from long-established giants to smaller-scale businesses. Blame usually goes to the economy, but that’s only part of the problem. The bigger culprit is often a failure in strategic thinking, which becomes painfully clear in hindsight. Unfortunately, many leaders do little to employ systematic strategic thinking in their organizations. This seminar will help you learn how to strengthen your strategic thinking skills and encourage it in others. Through case studies and practical thinking exercises, you’ll stimulate your strategic thinking, learn to recognize patterns that impact strategy and enhance your abilities to generate new insights and ideas. Come to your next strategic planning session with the best possible strategic ideas—and help your business move forward in an increasingly competitive world.

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How You Will Benefit

  • 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

What You Will Cover

  • Introduction to strategic thinking: a new way of thinking and looking at the world
  • Identifying trends and patterns in the macro environment
  • Reviewing the business and industry environment; assessing your current organization
  • Practicing strategic thinking calisthenics
  • Generating ideas and creating plans with a big-picture perspective
  • Building an action plan to expand the strategic thinking skills of yourself and colleagues

Who Should Attend

Individual contributors, managers, directors and other leaders who need strategic thinking skills to gain better business insights and identify trends that can contribute to a more successful business strategy.
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