Strategic Thinking
- 9 Courses | 4h 39m 22s
- 11 Books | 35h 32m
- 10 Audiobooks | 50h 51m 37s
How can you be more strategic as a leader? Strategic thinkers continually ask questions to help create the bridge between strategy and tactics. The role of strategic leader requires different skills and perspectives than those required by day-to-day operational leadership roles. Strategic leaders have to have vision and the ability to persuade fellow employees to undertake necessary actions to acquire the same vision.
Courses Included
Leadercamp on-demand: The Art of Strategy & Planning
In today’s competitive business environment, planning and executing effective strategies are critical to success. No matter the size or scale of your business, the ability to devise a strategic plan can determine whether your company flourishes or declines. But how do you define strategy, and know what kind of strategy is right for your business? In this Leadercamp, executive coach and facilitator Renée Patton provides a simple process by which to plan, execute, and measure business strategies that will improve your leadership, strengthen your teams, and grow your business.
1 Video |
56m
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Using Strategic Thinking as a Manager
Are you a strategic thinker? Do you consider what's going on around you – in your unit, company, industry, and wider business environment? Are you good at visualizing new possibilities or ways of working? Charting the future in today's business environment requires leaders to think strategically like never before. In these times of personal and organizational disruption and change, strategic thinking has become a skill of necessity that will play a key role in determining success or failure. In this course, you’ll learn the characteristics of strategic thinking and what a strategic mindset looks like in action. You’ll also learn the skills involved in developing two vital aspects of strategic thinking: the creative, innovative, and visionary components that allow you to have and communicate a clear strategic vision and see new possibilities; and the orderly, analytical, and logical skills that help you handle complexity and guide you toward balanced and smart decision making.
6 Videos |
25m
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Viewing the Big Picture Strategically
Big-picture thinking stretches beyond the short term and considers how an organization can succeed in the long run. A big-picture perspective helps you focus on your organization's future with a long-term perspective without being bogged down by immediate daily demands. In this course, you'll explore how you can get a sense of the bigger picture by reinventing your perspective for a holistic understanding of your organization, identifying the root causes of problems when dealing with complex situations, recognizing factors that influence the big picture, and using big-picture thinking to gain competitive advantage for your organization.
6 Videos |
23m
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Recognizing Organizational Risks
Risk is an inevitable aspect of any business. As a manager, it's important that you anticipate risks to effectively mitigate or avoid their potential impacts. The first step in handling a threat to your organization is to successfully identify the risks involved. In this course, you'll explore the difference between the internal and external factors that can pose a risk to your organization. You’ll also learn about the use of popular risk identification tools and techniques like brainstorming, the Delphi technique for gathering expert opinions, diagram analysis, and documentation reviews.
6 Videos |
22m
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Assessing Organizational Risks
Risk is a fact of life in business, and you've got to be able to assess your organization's risks to come up with strategies to avoid or reduce the negative effects of the threats you face. In this course, you'll familiarize yourself with key risk assessment concepts such as threats, opportunities, probabilities, and impacts – a necessity before assessing any risks your business may face. You will also learn about the tools and techniques of risk and opportunity assessment, recognizing that risks can either be threats to mitigate or opportunities to exploit for organizational gain.
6 Videos |
23m
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Managing Organizational Risks
Once you’ve identified and assessed a potential risk to your organization, the next step is to manage it appropriately. Some risks may have a higher probability of becoming a reality, while others may have a more negative or more positive impact. Your ability to detect risks will vary as well. You’ll need to be prepared to manage each of these risk effects accordingly. In this course, you’ll learn about risk response strategies and methods you can use to minimize organizational threats and leverage opportunities. You will also learn how you can create contingency response plans.
6 Videos |
22m
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Horizon Scanning: Identifying Future Opportunities
The most successful organizations can spot signs of change and adapt to it - or even better - seize change as an opportunity. This capability to scan the horizon of the future is also known as environmental scanning. In this course, you’ll learn what horizon scanning is and how it can benefit your business.You’ll also learn to recognize key areas of change and understand the steps involved in horizon scanning. In addition, you’ll learn how to analyze the data you collect and communicate it so the best decisions can be made.
6 Videos |
27m
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Leadercamp on-demand: Business Acumen Series on Strategy
Every business faces problems and opportunities, so it is important for leaders to understand different types of strategies to employ to gain competitive advantage in the market. It's important to understand that having potential alternative strategies goes a long way toward successful problem solving.
In this Leadercamp, PMP and managing partner at Lemmex Williams Training Merri Lemmex explores the tools you can use to ensure your business strategies align with your company’s goals.
1 Video |
56m
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Think to Win: Unleashing the Power of Strategic Thinking 10m By Paul Butler, Peter Klein, John F. Manfredi
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Now, Build a Great Business! 7 Ways to Maximize Your Profits in Any Market 9m By Brian Tracy, Mark Thompson
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Uncommon Leadership: How to Build Competitive Advantage by Thinking Differently 4h 18m By Phil Higson, Anthony Sturgess
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The 8 Steps to Strategic Success: Unleashing the Power of Engagement 4h 20m By Gerben van den Berg, Paul Pietersma
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Strategic Thinking: A Nine Step Approach to Strategy and Leadership for Managers and Marketers, 3rd edition 2h 51m By Simon Wootton, Terry Horne
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Leading with Strategic Thinking: Four Ways Effective Leaders Gain Insight, Drive Change, and Get Results 4h 52m By B. Keith Simerson, Aaron K. Olson
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Strategic Thinking Illustrated: Strategy Made Visual Using Systems Thinking 3h 32m By Dennis Sherwood
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Provoke: How Leaders Shape the Future by Overcoming Fatal Human Flaws 7m By Geoff Tuff, Steven Goldbach
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Audiobooks Included
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Think to Win: Unleashing the Power of Strategic Thinking 20m 28s By Paul Butler, Peter Klein, John F. Manfredi
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Elevate: The Three Disciplines of Advanced Strategic Thinking 9m 49s By Rich Horwath
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Strategic Thinking: A Nine Step Approach to Strategy and Leadership for Managers and Marketers, 3rd Edition 22m 33s By Simon Wootton, Terry Horne
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Game-Changer: Game Theory and the Art of Transforming Strategic Situations 6h 59m 42s By David McAdams
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Think to Win: Unleashing the Power of Strategic Thinking 6h 33m 57s By Paul Butler, Peter Klein, John F. Manfredi
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Strategy Maps: Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes 12h 48m 54s By Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton
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Skill Benchmarks Included
Strategic Thinking
Strategic thinkers continually ask questions to help create the bridge between strategy and tactics. The role of strategic leader requires different skills and perspectives than those required by day-to-day operational leadership roles. Strategic thinking and strategic orientation are essential for planning - and strategic leaders must always be thinking strategically, and must have vision and the ability to persuade fellow employees to undertake necessary actions to acquire the same vision.
This benchmark evaluates your understanding of this topic. Being aware of potential knowledge gaps allows you to better understand your current competency and areas for improvement, so you can find suitable content and curate your own learning path. The courses recommended at the end of this benchmark can help you fill potential gaps in your knowledge.
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