Course description
Strategic Thinking
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.
How You Will Benefit
- 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
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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.
Training content
- 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
Costs
Course price for:
- Non Members: $2795
- AMA Members: $2495
Certification / Credits
CEU: 1.2, PDU: 12, CPE: 14
Reviews
Average rating 4.7
Excellent course both content and pacing, instructor is clearly engaged and true subject matter expert.
I loved the integration of real life stories in with the training material. The breakout sessions gave us an opportunity to practice the skills we were learning.
American Management Association Company Info
The American Management Association, International (AMA) is the global leader in talent development. Founded in 1923, AMA supports the goals of individuals and organizations through a complete range of educational products and services, including instructor-led classroom and virtual seminars, webinars,...
This training provides a systematic approach to strategic thinking, planning and execution that you can bring to your work right away.