Strategic Thinking
Many people, at every level of their organization, are so dedicated to producing day-to-day results that they rarely take the time to think strategically. Our daily routine involves making choices and decisions and working to get the job done. For the most part we are responding and reacting, often engaged in "organizational fire-fighting."
Strategic thinking is how people think about, evaluate, construct, and implement a future that brings value to themselves and their organization. It is a way of being that focuses on finding and developing unique opportunities to contribute value and engage in a stimulating and creative approach to change. While strategic thinking does not remove the organizational chaos, it does allow us to address it proactively and change the work and our approach to the work. Approaching our work strategically will allow us to produce improved results faster and make better utilization of our resources.
Results-Driven Strategic Thinking teaches you the basic process and tools for thinking strategically and converting those thoughts into action through strategic planning and doing. But strategic thinking is more than tools and processes; it is a way of thinking and a way of approaching life and work.
Participants will practice the steps and apply the tools in the strategic thinking process by working on their own change activities in class.
Course Objectives
As individuals or as teams, participants will create strategic proposals designed to produce significant results for their organization by:
- Identifying one or more opportunities for strategic change
- Creating a strategic vision for their change
- Describing the current state
- Performing a needs 'gap' analysis
- Creating one or more strategic objectives
- Conducting a SCOT analysis
- Creating a tactical action plan to implement the change
- Developing a communication plan for their change
- Developing a plan to initiate a dialogue with their manager to support the change
Key Topics
- What is Strategic Thinking and Why is it Important?
- Approaches and definition of strategic thinking
- Barriers to strategic thinking
- Six critical success factors to thinking strategically
- Thinking strategically, planning strategically, doing strategically
- Strategic thinking is all about change
Instructors
PATRICK NEAL has a passion for helping people and organizations reduce costs, improve productivity, and shorten time-to-market by developing organizational and individual competence in project management. He has worked with more than 200 organizations including IBM, AT&T, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Agilent Technologies, and PG&E. More than 10,000 project managers have attended his training classes.
Patrick was a member of the Hewlett-Packard Project Management Initiative which was credited by an industry study with developing the best high-technology approach to project management. He founded the Project Management Office at Agilent Technologies.
Patrick has a doctorate in Organizational Communication and is certified by the Project Management Institute as a Project Management Professional (PMP).
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Integrated Device Technology, Inc.
Yale Conference Room
6024 Silver Creek Valley Road
San Jose, CA
Onsite Delivery
Contact: info@effectivetraining.com
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