Strategic thinking and innovation skills are crucial to effectively navigate change, become a trusted value partner, and deliver exceptional value to your organization and its clients or customers. Learn the essence of strategic thinking, how it differs from strategic planning and how to integrate it with traditional planning activities. Develop skills and habits to think like a futurist and better anticipate emerging challenges and opportunities in the marketplace. Discover a framework to become more innovative and relevant to changing customer needs and expectations. Explore questions that inspire strategic thinking and employ new habits to proactively build it into your routines as a leader. Collaborate with peers and colleagues in a business simulation exercise to put your new strategic thinking and innovation skills into practice, while identifying pivotal insights for your organization.
Course ID: MYV
Multiply Your Value With Strategic Thinking and Innovation Skills
Learning Objectives
- Choose and apply a framework for strategic thinking and innovation.
- Determine how to think like a futurist to anticipate emerging challenges and opportunities.
- Apply strategic thinking with traditional planning activities.
- Apply actionable questions to spark strategic thinking and innovation.
- Use strategic thinking into your routines as a leader
Major Topics
- Discover the core elements of strategic thinking
- Apply the Job to Be Done theory of innovation to become a more trusted value partner
- Distinguish between strategic thinking and the typical strategic planning process
- Explore six questions to inspire strategic thinking
- Build strategic thinking into your routines as a leader
Who Should Attend
Mid-level to senior leaders in their organizations.
Fields of Study
Personal DevelopmentPrerequisites
Relevant leadership experience.