Strategic Thinking Training: Developing A Strategic Mindset

This strategic thinking course is designed to help you develop your understanding of how value is created in an organization and how to enhance your leadership effectiveness: what every business manager needs to know to maximize their strategic contribution to the organization.

Learn how to develop your total strategic mindset to give yourself and your organization a winning edge.

Top Reasons To Choose
This Program

Understand how value is created in an organization
Enhance your leadership effectiveness
Develop your vision map for moving forward

- “This course clarified and created awareness that there is a difference between strategy and strategic analysis. I now understand. There is a set of rules and principles of performing strategic analysis.”
  
  G. Kendal-RobertsSupervisor, Legal Aid Ontario
- “This course provided me with the tools to approach my job and my organization with the confidence to effect positive change and focus.”
  
  K. MakiDirector of Exposition, Informa Canada

About This Program

Business managers are facing very challenging times. Understanding how to plan and execute complex strategies that meet the goals of the organization is now critical for both career and business success. Enhance your strategic thinking skills training with this program from Schulich ExecEd.

Our unique strategic mindset teaching methodology translates strategic analysis into a highly interactive program. Learn how to develop a total strategic mindset to give yourself and your organization a winning edge.

You will learn a structured methodology for thinking that you can use as a template to align your performance to the strategic goals of the organization.

Who Should Attend

This seminar covers all of the major planning issues facing management today in both the private and public sector. It is recommended for any manager or executive…
- with concerns about how strategy is effectively developed, communicated and implemented
- facing the challenge of developing a strategic plan, business plan or functional plan
- new to the position and wanting to align performance to the purpose of the organization
- whose goal is to develop a stronger strategic marketing and customer focus
What You Will Learn
- Apply today’s most advanced strategic planning methodologies to execute new initiatives
- Understand the total strategic mindset: the relationship between your job, the value you create and the strategic goals of your organization
- Identify your critical success factors and barriers to everyday operating performance
- Learn to conduct a thorough SWOT assessment
- Identify best practices for enhancing your strategic contribution to your organization
- Think forward – identify critical success factors for the future, both individually and organizationally
- Understand the key fundamentals of strategic planning and thinking
- Use strategic evaluation tools to improve your abilities in the key areas of: problem solving, communications, conflict management and decision-making
- Learn to conduct an environmental scan to uncover strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats

Course Content Details

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3 days

Developing a Strategic Mindset

1. Your Strategic Point of Origin: Developing Strategy and Strategic Planning

Strategy: How to Understand Its Origin and Role in the Organization

Conduct a simulation demonstrating the origins of strategy
Learn to define Vision, Mission, Values, Value, Value Proposition, Customers, Consumers, Stakeholders, Strategic and Operational Strategy
Conduct a Situational Analysis including an Environmental Scan, Customer Analysis, Product/Service Analysis and Competitive Analysis
Identify the Value you create for your customers

Determine Your Critical Success Factors

Clarify your Value Chain, Value Proposition and Key Success Factors
Clarify your Comparative Advantage
Understand how to determine Threats to your organization

2. Creating Opportunity: Mapping Your Future Direction

Develop Opportunity: Vision Mapping the Future

Differentiate between Initiatives and Opportunities
Learn Vision Mapping for non-linear thinking about the Future
Learn how to conduct Scenario Planning
Establish key goals and objectives for future Vision

Identify Key Elements of Success

Learn the difference between analysis of present and past, versus visioning the future
Learn how to identify benchmarks and milestones for the future

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Fall 2022 Program	Module Dates	Time
Developing a Strategic Mindset	12/5/2022 - 12/7/2022	9:00 am - 4:00 pm

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In-House Programming

Faculty

Wissam AlHussaini, PhD

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Continuing Education Credits

21 PMI-PDU Strategic

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21 HRPA-CPD Hours

This program has been approved for CDP hours under Section A of the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Log of the Human Resource Professionals Association (HRPA). Be sure to note the program ID number on your CPD log. For more information about certification or continuing professional development, visit the HRPA website at www.hrpa.ca/hrdesignations_/Pages/Continuing-Professional-Development.aspx

Developing a Strategic Mindset

Top Reasons To Choose This Program

Understand how value is created in an organization

Enhance your leadership effectiveness

Develop your vision map for moving forward