Strategic Thinking

Develop a strategic mindset to increase the success of your strategic plans.

Learn how to strengthen your strategic thinking skills and encourage it in others. Through case studies and practical thinking exercises, you’ll stimulate your strategic thinking, learn to recognize patterns that impact strategy and enhance your abilities to generate new insights and ideas. Come to your next strategic planning session with the best possible strategic ideas—and help your business move forward in an increasingly competitive world.

Seminar Number: 02018

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Who Should Attend

Individual contributors, managers, directors and other leaders who need strategic thinking skills to gain better business insights and identify trends that can contribute to a more successful business strategy.

Classroom2 Day(s)
1.2 CEU, 12 CPU, 12 PDCs

Overview
How You Will Benefit
What You Will Cover
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Credits

Explore ways to challenge your assumptions and view your business in a new light
Learn and apply different thinking methods to avoid groupthink
Control reactive fixes to problems even in an uncertain business environment
Generate new ideas and evaluate future scenarios before your competitors do
Know when to embrace necessary risk, even if resources and information are limited
Learn to create better short-term goals that support long-term strategy

Introduction to strategic thinking: a new way of thinking and looking at the world
Identifying trends and patterns in the macro environment
Reviewing the business and industry environment; assessing your current organization
Practicing strategic thinking calisthenics
Generating ideas and creating plans with a big-picture perspective
Building an action plan to expand the strategic thinking skills of yourself and colleagues

Learning Objectives

Leverage New Skills to Support Your Strategic Thinking Every Day
Apply a Process to Envision Your Organization’s Desired Future
Recognize the Influences Within and Outside Your Organization That Could Support or Derail Your Future Goals
Identify the Changes Necessary to Reach Your Future Goals
Expand the Number of Perspectives That Influence Your Moves Forward
Create a Plan for Building Skills and Testing Your Ideas

Context of Strategic Thinking

Define Strategic Thinking and Recognize How It Can Be Used in Your Day-to-Day Work
Compare and Contrast Strategic Thinking to Analytical Thinking, Critical Thinking, and Inductive and Deductive Reasoning
Identify the Characteristics of Strategic Thinkers

Strategic Thinking Process and Skills

Explain a Model for Strategic Thinking in Day-to-Day Activities and Work Applications
List Skills and Tools That Can Be Used to Support Strategic Thinking

Assess the Current State

Identify the Influences and Relationships at Different Levels of an Organization That Can Impact a Strategy
Recognize and Identify Patterns of Interaction and Development That Are Likely to Influence the Effectiveness of a Strategy
Incorporate Multiple Perspectives on a Possible Strategy, and Assess Different Influences on the Potential Success

Envision a Desired Future State

Envision a Desired Future State
Recognize and Use Thinking Skills That Support Imagining New Ways of Relating to the Market and Customers

Build Your Path on Paper

Identify and Sequence the Multiple Steps to Move from the Current State of the Issue/Opportunity to the Desire Future State
Anticipate the Reactions/Responses of Others in the Larger Systems Impacting Your Situation
Identify and Conduct Experiments and Tests That Point Your Way Forward

Implement Your Strategic Knowledge and Skills

Assess What You Gained from Applying Strategic Thinking Tools to Your Project
Anticipate Pitfalls You May Encounter as a Strategic Thinker
Create an Action Plan for Development of Strategic Thinking Skills

This course qualifies for 12 CPUs toward your recertification as a CAP (Certified Analytics Professionals).

American Management Association is accredited by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and is accredited to issue the IACET CEU.

AMA is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CPSM or SHRM-SCPSM.

Classroom Schedule

15 Sessions Available

$2,545.00 Non Members
$2,295.00 AMA Members
$2,079.00 GSA

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Date	Duration	State	City	Zip
2019-07-11 2019-07-12 Jul 11, 2019 - Jul 12, 2019	2 Days	TX	Dallas	75001-3505 Dallas	Register Now
2019-08-01 2019-08-02 Aug 1, 2019 - Aug 2, 2019	2 Days	DC	Arlington/Washington	22202-4807 Arlington/Washington	Register Now
2019-08-15 2019-08-16 Aug 15, 2019 - Aug 16, 2019	2 Days	IL	Chicago	60601 Chicago	Register Now
2019-09-16 2019-09-17 Sep 16, 2019 - Sep 17, 2019	2 Days	PA	Philadelphia	19019 Philadelphia	Register Now
2019-09-26 2019-09-27 Sep 26, 2019 - Sep 27, 2019	2 Days	NY	New York	10019 New York	Register Now
2019-10-03 2019-10-04 Oct 3, 2019 - Oct 4, 2019	2 Days	GA	Atlanta	30309-7705 Atlanta	Register Now
2019-10-28 2019-10-29 Oct 28, 2019 - Oct 29, 2019	2 Days	TX	Houston	77001 Houston	Register Now
2019-11-04 2019-11-05 Nov 4, 2019 - Nov 5, 2019	2 Days	CA	San Francisco	94103-3156 San Francisco	Register Now
2019-11-11 2019-11-12 Nov 11, 2019 - Nov 12, 2019	2 Days	IL	Chicago	60601 Chicago	Register Now
2019-12-02 2019-12-03 Dec 2, 2019 - Dec 3, 2019	2 Days	DC	Arlington/Washington	22202-4807 Arlington/Washington	Register Now
2019-12-16 2019-12-17 Dec 16, 2019 - Dec 17, 2019	2 Days	NY	New York	10019 New York	Register Now
2020-02-03 2020-02-04 Feb 3, 2020 - Feb 4, 2020	2 Days	TX	Dallas	75001 Dallas	Register Now
2020-02-20 2020-02-21 Feb 20, 2020 - Feb 21, 2020	2 Days	IL	Chicago	60601 Chicago	Register Now
2020-03-12 2020-03-13 Mar 12, 2020 - Mar 13, 2020	2 Days	NY	New York	10019 New York	Register Now
2020-03-23 2020-03-24 Mar 23, 2020 - Mar 24, 2020	2 Days	GA	Atlanta	30309-7705 Atlanta	Register Now

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