Developing a Strategic Mindset

Train your mind to be more strategic and start making a difference in your organization!

Developing the strategic thinking competency is critical for both your business and leadership success in today’s workplace. This course will equip you with a framework as well as tips and techniques that can be applied to your daily workplace reality. As a result of attending, you will leave as a stronger and more confident strategic thinker.

How You Will Benefit

  • Understand the importance of thinking and leading strategically in your daily work
  • Recognize how strategy lives within an organization
  • Identify your strategic thinking strengths and areas for improvement
  • Understand the four steps required to think strategically and learn to embed the 4-step framework into your daily work life
  • Apply best practices to stop and reflect on the big picture before acting
  • Articulate clearly the link between your business challenge and the overall strategy
  • Use best practice techniques for thinking through a problem before acting
  • Learn how to innovatively reframe when brainstorming
  • Recognize actions you can take to strategically plan for your implementation
  • Apply what you have learned to scenarios and/or your real-life situation
  • Develop awareness of the skills required to think strategically in the workplace
  • Strengthen your ability to explain how your decisions and actions align with your organization’s strategy
  • Expand your toolbox of ways to creatively brainstorm solutions 
  • Recognize how to lead people more strategically
  • Increase your competitiveness in the workplace

Course Features

  • Self-assessment providing insights into your strategic thinking strengths and areas for improvement
  • Discussion touch-points to maximize the sharing of knowledge among participants
  • Group activities applying creative brainstorming techniques
  • Role play activities to reinforce techniques and behaviours in a safe environment where feedback and coaching are provided
 

Who Should Attend

Business professionals seeking to develop the skills to prepare them for more strategic roles.

This course is part of a Learning Path for people looking to improve strategic thinking and planning capabilities. Learn more about learning paths.

 

$2,345 Non Member Fee
$2,095 Member Fee
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$2,345 Non Member Fee
$2,095 Member Fee
  • Date
    Location
    Time

Do you need a different date or location? We offer Courses On Request.

When colleagues learn together, everyone benefits!

Explore our onsite training options or to inquire about scheduling this course for your team, click here.

 

 

This course supports the following Organizational Impact Areas:

  • Strategic Alignment Impact Area - aligning priorities, decision-making and change adoption
  • Project Management Impact Area - adopting flexible approaches to project-based work
239 Reviews 4 Star

Course Reviews

  • Uzma B., Vice President Career Services Sep 26, 2024

    The course was a wonderful experience, and I learning objectives met my expectations. I liked the group interaction and discussions. Sherri was excellent facilitator.

  • Past Participant, Commercial Manager, Supply Chain Sep 26, 2024

    Good pace to the course and right amount of time allocated. Course materials and activities/exercises were helpful. Instructor was engaging and knowledgeable. Good class size.

  • Past Participant, Supply Chain Management – Subcontracts Procurement Professional Sep 26, 2024

  • Past Participant, Conventional Safety Manager Sep 26, 2024

    Great to have an "in person" course like this. Much more valuable than an online course for this material.

  • Past Participant, Manager, Business Performance Reporting, and KPIs Sep 26, 2024

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