Be Strategic – Core Thinking Skills and Key Mindsets to Thrive in a Turbulent World

CPD Hours: 6 | Ethics Hours: 1
Member Price: $420.00
Non-member Price: $462.00


Delivery Method: E-Learning
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Overview:

Be known for the value, insight, and advice that make you an indispensable business partner and leader. Explore and apply essential thinking-query frameworks and models to be/become strategic.

The call to 'be strategic' is pervasive. The more volatile, uncertain, complex, and/or ambiguous the environment - like now - the stronger the call (and expectation) of you, as a professional.

But what does it mean to be strategic? And how do you learn to become it?

Whether leading or supporting your own strategic success or that of your organization, team, or business, this course helps foster the mindset and provides the essential thinking tools you'll need. The result? Be known for the value, insight, and advice you bring that make you an indispensable strategic thinker, partner, leader, or steward.

 

This course emphasizes the application of practical frameworks, based on examples and experience, to support effective strategic thinking and active influence in decision-making, shaping strategy, and business direction.
Participants will be encouraged to reflect on, engage with and apply concepts delivered through a blend of written and video content; examples and illustration; self-reflection and application or creative project activities; and, teach-back and takeaway discussion panels, quizzes, and/or self-assessments.

 

 

Course Content:

Topics covered in this course include:

·         Strategy formulation vs. strategic thinking

·         A suite of distinctive mental models and frameworks to support and enable ongoing, integrative, strategic thinking and execution, plus periodic strategy formulation

·         Related governance, ethical, and professionalism considerations

·         Practical application and relevance outside of formal. Periodic strategic planning; for ongoing, effective, and value-added insight, stewardship, finance business partnering, and collaborative effort

 

Learning Objectives:

Upon completing this course, you will be able to:

·         Activate and apply critical and strategic thinking skills in order to lead, steward, and partner adaptively and on pace with shifting demands and expectations

·         Engage and energize a value-creating strategic perspective for better insights, strategic success partnering, and direction-setting

·         Recognize and include a wider array of thinking patterns, to navigate through disturbance and into the possibility

 

Who Will Benefit: 

Those who are actively seeking to strengthen their role and influence through better thinking skills as active ‘partners’ in their organization’s success and desired impact.

Those who want to develop their capacity to conceptualize, illustrate and communicate their story of strategy and the internal alignment that facilitates its achievement. Useful to gain a better understanding of your organization’s total performance, integration, and strategic alignment, as well as for strategic scenario-building and alternatives analysis.

Those who are intent on adding the best value possible and actively engaging in effective, high-performance strategy formulation and strategic thinking effectiveness.

This course is valuable to financial professionals at all levels of leadership or emerging leaders, analysts, and advisors who are interested in the dynamics and application of strategic thinking and strategy formulation fundamentals.

Member Price: $420.00
Non-member Price: $462.00


Delivery Method: E-Learning
Available Now!

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