Formats: 8-hour virtual course | 2-day instructor-led onsite
Explore advanced strategic thinking training by delving into insights, processes, logic, and self-examination. Employ vision, systems thinking, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving to enhance decision-making and optimize goal achievement.
Learning Objectives »
- Assess your strategic thinking skills.
- Sharpen analytical and cognitive thinking skills.
- Analyze circumstances more objectively.
- View internal and external circumstances from a broader perspective.
- Evaluate, question, and adjust logic and reasoning.
- Dissect problems with logic and reasoned judgment.
- Use lateral thinking to solve problems.
Course Agenda »
The Discipline of Strategic Thinking
- What is Strategic Thinking?
- The Seven Steps to Strategic Thinking
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Differing Perspectives
- Barriers to Strategic Thinking
The Elements of Strategic Thinking
- Vision
- Systems Thinking
- Ladder of Inference
- Systems Thinking
- Creativity
- The Size Steps to Better Outcomes
- Using the Brainstorming Guidelines
- Mind Mapping
- Critical Thinking
- Scientific Methods
- Blooms Taxonomy
- Disposition Toward Critical Thinking
- Universal Intellectual Standards
Different Problem-Solving Techniques
- The Problem-Solving Formula’s Three Stages
- Triple Constraints
- Evidence-Based Decision-Making
- Lateral Thinking
- Elements of Decision-Making
- Critical Examination