Strategic Thinking - Group Training

Strategic thinking is an essential course for all management levels. It provides strategic thinking tools that help the professional to gain confidence about handling future changes and think clearly about what they do, what they want to do and how to get there.

This course is rich with exercises that are designed to provide the professional with core fundamentals of strategic thinking and make it manageable for them to succeed.

Strategic thinking has 3 main levels:

• Internal strategic alignment- how to think about yourself strategically
• Interpersonal strategic thinking- how to prepare strategically to deal with other people and to get the results you want to get. Also how to work together and get the best of your personnel through team building strategies.
• Task oriented strategic thinking- this level of strategic thinking cocerns future projects, individually and collectively -how to prepare the mind mentally and think through variables, options and concerns in a systematic fashion. Thoroughly applying the FED system. 

Strategic thinking includes simple yet powerful ingredients that make a big difference when used. Here are some:
 

Thinking factually- being able to gather wide range of facts without bias.

Thinking in parameters- understanding all relevant parameters and thereby increasing the scope and perception of your base thinking

Consequence analysis- learning to think about a wide range of possible consequences that may result out of an intended action, mapping them out and being strategically aware.

Risk/reward analysis- important part of strategic thinking is the ability to weigh risk and rewards without bias.

Question analysis- learning to discern the question behind the question without being and thereby get to the actual problem or task.

Symptom-Cause analysis- Solve the cause and understand what the difference is between cause and symptom. That will give you a huge edge in strategic thinking.

Decision making- decision making is the culmination of strategic thinking. When you have gone through this training and learn to use the tools, your decision making capacity will increase dramatically.