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Strategic Thinking for Leaders: Objectives, Strategies, and Tactics

Available Formats: Webinar, Half Day

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Expected Outcomes

Participants will achieve the following outcomes from this training:

  • Know how to develop and apply strategic thinking skills
  • Understand the difference between objectives, strategies, and tactics
  • Know the OST model of strategy and how to apply it to their organization or team
  • Know when to be more strategic and less tactical in their role

Program Overview

The Trend

Working with leaders around the world, we see organizations typically have three scenarios:

  1. People in a leadership role don’t know how to think strategically
  2. Organizations promote employees to leadership roles, but don’t teach them how to be more strategic
  3. Leaders who think tactically, but struggle with thinking strategically

The solution is to provide leaders with the training, tools, and techniques to help them become skilled strategic thinkers.

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Program Flow

As a leader, it is very important to think, but more important is thinking at a deeper strategic level. In this interactive and thought-provoking program, we train leaders in the Objectives, Strategies, and Tactics (OST) model, which is the framework that helps leaders think more strategically.

Training Topics

  • Overview of the OST model
  • Defining and identifying objectives
  • Challenges and issues with objectives
  • Definition and benefits of strategy
  • Understanding and developing tactics
  • OST exercise and debrief
  • Applying OST to work projects
  • Action plans for OST

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