Strategic Vision for a Shifting Landscape

Executives & Managers Training

Thursday, May 29th from 12:30 PM – 2 PM

The world is constantly changing. As organizations, we work in an uncertain and volatile environment. We are seeing shifts in community needs, funding priorities, and employee engagement, among other changes. Our strategic plans help to a certain extent, but we still need the ability to think on the fly and make good strategic decisions in response to situations we didn’t anticipate when we made our plans. 

This workshop will help you understand the five elements of strategic thinking to elevate your decision-making confidence. You will also learn about strategy filters, which are tools that help us empower the entire team to make good strategic decisions, and we’ll explore three frameworks for evaluating new opportunities. 

Workshop Content 

Strategic Thinking and Decision-Making 

• Five elements of strategic thinking: system thinking, intelligent opportunism, goal orientation, hypothesis driven, thinking in time 

• Strategy filters: what are they and how are they useful? How do they help us: 
  • Exercise intelligent opportunism 
  • Be more transparent in decision-making 
  • Empower others to make strategic decisions
  • What questions do we ask to develop a strategy filter? 

• Three basic frameworks for evaluating new opportunities: cost-benefit matrix, design thinking, the McMillan framework 

Learning Outcomes  

By the end of this workshop participants will be able to: 

• Understand the five basic elements of strategic thinking 

• Describe the purpose and development of a “strategy filter” 

• Apply three basic frameworks for evaluating new opportunities 

• Understand the basics of “adaptive strategy” – Experimentation, pattern recognition, execution by the whole 

• Understand core concepts related to internal collaboration 

• Understand the basics of change leadership 

Facilitator

This training is being facilitated by JP Baker at Vantage Point