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When teams are consumed by immediate demands, important shifts in the business can be easy to miss. AMA’s Strategic Thinkingprogram helps your people look beyond the next deadline and consider how today’s choices could affect the organization’s future.
Your people will learn to examine business challenges in context and chart a clear path from today’s realities to what the organization wants to achieve.[
- Detect patterns and emerging developments that may influence results
- Account for perspectives from across the organization
- Explore and test possible directions before committing resources
- Turn strategic ideas into a practical course of action
WHAT THE PROGRAM COVERS
Understanding Strategic Thinking
Explore what strategic thinking means, how it differs from other reasoning approaches, and how strategic thinkers apply it in their day-to-day work.
Applying the Strategic Thinking Process
Use a practical model, skills and tools to approach everyday responsibilities with a broader, more forward-looking perspective.
Assessing the Current State
Examine organizational relationships, identify influential patterns, and consider multiple perspectives that could affect a strategy’s success.
Envisioning the Desired Future
Apply imaginative thinking to define what success could look like and uncover new ways to serve markets and customers.
Mapping the Path Forward
Sequence the steps from the current state to the desired outcome, anticipate stakeholder responses, and test potential approaches.
Turning Strategic Insight into Action
Apply strategic thinking tools to a real project, prepare for potential pitfalls, and create a plan for continued skill development.
Ready to help your people look beyond today’s demands and shape what comes next?
Complete the form to connect with an AMA Learning Advisor and explore how this program can address the business challenges facing your organization.