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Strategic Thinking: A New Paradigm for Peak Performance
Learn how to build and expand your thinking skills, so you'll be able to fully consider all sides of an issue and anticipate a broader range of possibilities.
By applying strategic thinking to the tasks and challenges you face in your work, you will begin to experience breakthroughs you never thought possible. You will feel sure you really are on the thinking edge—that you really have “thought of everything!”
This seminar will include several videotapes, as well as case studies and a self-scoring thinking-style assessment that will be administered in class.
Who Should Attend?
Supervisors, managers and executives who are required to handle both daily and “big picture” issues and challenges.
How You Will Benefit:
- Become familiar with different styles of thinking and identify your personal preferences
- Ask yourself “big picture” questions
- Learn how to challenge assumptions and expand perceptions about situations
- Come to better conclusions and decisions more often
- Influence and persuade others with clear thinking and clear language
- Manage team idea exchanges
- Learn how to find out what you don't know—and solve the real problem
- Apply what you learn to the day-to-day operation of your business
What You Will Cover:
What Is Strategic Thinking?
- Recognize what makes excellent strategic thinking
- Distinguish elements of the thinking process
- Understand how strategic thinking works in a team setting
How Can Strategic Thinking Be a Contact Sport?
- Build a framework for integrating values and rational skills
- Understand how strategic thinking works in a team setting
How Do You Know That? Challenging Assumptions
- Use active listening and effective communication strategies to build rapport while probing for assumptions
- Understand Socratic dialog techniques
How Can I Develop Excellent Strategic Thinking Skills?
- Distinguish elements of the thinking process
- Develop a path to reasoned judgment
- Recognize what makes excellent strategic thinking
How Can I Use More of My Brain to Sharpen My Strategic Thinking Skills?
- Discover your own thinking style preference
- Identify the four brain quadrants and their respective multiple intelligences
- Build a metaphoric model for “thinking teams”
- Perform contrastive analysis of individual thinking styles and data
Why Do We Need Strategic Thinking in the 21st Century Workplace?
- Apply the Socratic method for problem solving in a team setting and personal goal setting
- Develop a working understanding of whole-brain thinking as a tool for building intellectual empathy
- Influencing others with clear thinking
How Can I Develop and Apply Excellent Strategic Thinking Skills?
- Explore new approaches for developing all four brain systems
- Develop a path to reasoned judgment
- Follow a structural strategic thinking process to keep track of your thinking
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