Strategic Thinking – in company training
Being able to think strategically, and to see the bigger picture, are attributes that every great leader should possess. With strategic thinking, you can create the future for yourself and your employees. It helps you to identify opportunities for change, and take advantage of them. This, in turn, increases market share and profitability, and makes your business more durable.
Dealing with limited resources of money, people and time is a fact of life for all businesses, even giant corporations. Strategic thinking enables you to determine how to use these resources most effectively and advance the company toward its objectives.
Strategic thinking is a mindset of anticipating unforseen changes and having plans in place to deal with them. Reacting quickly allows you to take advantage of opportunities and minimize the damage of unexpected negative events. The most successful companies employ strategic thinking skills throughout the year.
If you want to boost your strategic thinking skills be sure to enroll for our training course!
Strategic Thinking – in company training
Being able to think strategically, and to see the bigger picture, are attributes that every great leader should possess. With strategic thinking, you can create the future for yourself and your employees. It helps you to identify opportunities for change, and take advantage of them. This, in turn, increases market share and profitability, and makes your business more durable.
Dealing with limited resources of money, people and time is a fact of life for all businesses, even giant corporations. Strategic thinking enables you to determine how to use these resources most effectively and advance the company toward its objectives.
Strategic thinking is a mindset of anticipating unforseen changes and having plans in place to deal with them. Reacting quickly allows you to take advantage of opportunities and minimize the damage of unexpected negative events. The most successful companies employ strategic thinking skills throughout the year.
If you want to boost your strategic thinking skills be sure to enroll for our training course!
Aims & benefits
By the end of the course delegates will be able to:
- Understand what strategic thinking is and what it takes to think strategically.
- Realize how strategic thinking differs from conventional thinking.
- Make a habit of strategic thinking.
- Collect and analyze information and define strategic initiatives.
- Generate creative ideas and solutions to implement initiatives.
- Select the best solutions.
Agenda
Training program: Strategic Thinking
Introduction
- What is strategic thinking?
- What makes strategic thinking different from conventional thinking?
- Can I think strategically? – self-analysis questionnaire.
- Why should strategic thinking be a habit, not an occasional spurt – Rich Horwath (11 min film).
- What it takes to think strategically.
Phases of strategic thinking
- Gathering, analyzing information and defining strategic initiatives.
- Generating ideas and solutions to implement initiatives.
- Selecting the best solution(s).
Gathering, analyzing information and defining strategic initiatives
- PESTLE analysis (political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental factors and trends in the company’s environment).
- Exercise: PESTLE analysis – understanding implications of global and local trends for the company.
- Exercise: selecting 3 change initiatives within the company, based on analysis of market trends.
- Prioritizing initiatives based on key evaluation criteria.
- SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats).
- Exercise: SWOT analysis for selected initiatives.
Generating creative ideas and solutions
- Important skills to foster idea generation.
- Review of well-proven idea-generating techniques.
- Brainstorming.
- Reverse brainstorming.
- The 635 method.
- Lateral thinking – Edward de Bono’s 6 thinking hats.
- Walt Disney’s strategy.
- Two- and three-dimensional thinking.
- Mind maps.
- Ishikawa diagram.
- Exercise: generating ideas and solutions for selected company initiatives using selected techniques.
Selecting the best solution(s)
- Decision making matrix – essential and desirable criteria.
- Exercise: evaluating ideas and solutions based on the decision making matrix.
- Risk matrix – understanding the ripple effects of decisions made.
- Exercise: analyzing negative knock-on effects and mitigating risks.
Summary of the training and individual action plans: START-STOP-CONTINUE
Training program: Strategic Thinking
Introduction
- What is strategic thinking?
- What makes strategic thinking different from conventional thinking?
- Can I think strategically? – self-analysis questionnaire.
- Why should strategic thinking be a habit, not an occasional spurt – Rich Horwath (11 min film).
- What it takes to think strategically.
Phases of strategic thinking
- Gathering, analyzing information and defining strategic initiatives.
- Generating ideas and solutions to implement initiatives.
- Selecting the best solution(s).
Gathering, analyzing information and defining strategic initiatives
- PESTLE analysis (political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental factors and trends in the company’s environment).
- Exercise: PESTLE analysis – understanding implications of global and local trends for the company.
- Exercise: selecting 3 change initiatives within the company, based on analysis of market trends.
- Prioritizing initiatives based on key evaluation criteria.
- SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats).
- Exercise: SWOT analysis for selected initiatives.
Generating creative ideas and solutions
- Important skills to foster idea generation.
- Review of well-proven idea-generating techniques.
- Brainstorming.
- Reverse brainstorming.
- The 635 method.
- Lateral thinking – Edward de Bono’s 6 thinking hats.
- Walt Disney’s strategy.
- Two- and three-dimensional thinking.
- Mind maps.
- Ishikawa diagram.
- Exercise: generating ideas and solutions for selected company initiatives using selected techniques.
Selecting the best solution(s)
- Decision making matrix – essential and desirable criteria.
- Exercise: evaluating ideas and solutions based on the decision making matrix.
- Risk matrix – understanding the ripple effects of decisions made.
- Exercise: analyzing negative knock-on effects and mitigating risks.
Summary of the training and individual action plans: START-STOP-CONTINUE
Experts
THE TRAINING METHODS
Activity Based Learning
The training follows the Kolb cycle and the ABL method (Activity Based Learning).
Workshops
Participants take part in activating exercises preceded by the necessary theoretical introduction.
Feedback
Participants have the opportunity to self-diagnose and receive feedback from the trainer.
Full activation
The trainer presents knowledge using 3 channels of information transfer - sight, movement, hearing.
Discussion
Discussion panel, group and individual exercises, presentation, role playing, case studies and review films.
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How do we prepare our training projects?
Analysing your training needs
Verification of your training aims
Creating a training programme
Logical & administrative settings
Realization of the project
5 reasons you should pick our training:
1. Based on deeply analyse of your training needs, we will recommend you best trainer and programme offer.
2. Through the whole project, there’s gonna be an account manager to take care of your needs.
3. Participants will get all the necessary training materials in very attractive form.
4. We guarantee using variety of training methods through the whole project.
5. Your project will be closed with after training report containing evaluation and reccomendations for the future.
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(22) 224 21 95
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