Becoming a Strategic Thinker
- shon80
- Apr 2
- 2 min read
Change is always happening around us, if we care to pay attention to it. Effective leaders and managers need to stay alert to change and think strategically about how change will impact on the strategic environment, industry, organisation, and individuals. This awareness of the environment and its impact on industry, organisations, and individuals is at the heart of strategic thinking. Many people believe that strategic thinking is for top level management in the organisation. Yes, it is crucial for the upper echelons of the organisation, but strategic thinking can and should be applied at all levels. We can also apply it to ourselves and our own career path. Strategic thinking is universally useful, and the skills can be used and applied by anyone.
As trainers in strategic thinking, we often find that the people we train are already using some strategic thinking - they often don’t realise it yet. What training in strategic thinking can do is provide frameworks and tools that can harness and enhance existing strategic awareness and thinking and make the most of it. Using tools and frameworks provides a systematic approach that makes strategic thinking more focused, robust and comprehensive, and also makes it easier to communicate our strategic thinking and reasoning to others.
Strategic thinking skills help individuals, teams, and groups within organisations get a better appreciation of the strategic signals that are coming from within the organisation as well. This can make strategic alignment much easier to achieve. For organisations that invest in strategic thinking, it demonstrates to their people that they really value them and see their potential as contributors to the strategic life of the organisation. Encouraging strategic thinking skills through training can unlock a world of meaning and understanding for individuals and groups, unleashing new possibilities and perspectives.
Join us for one of our upcoming Strategic Thinking Short Courses to gain further insight into strategic thinking tools.
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