Understanding strategic thinking

Course materials:

Slides Understanding Strategic Thinking

Guide & Workbook Understanding Strategic Thinking

Useful resources:

LGIU Briefing: LGIU_cornwall-development-and-decision-wheel-an-innovative-approach-to-decision-making

• The Fifth Discipline and The Dance of Change – Peter Senge
• Beyond Certainty – Charles Handy
• Leaning into the Future – George Binney and Colin Williamson
• Build it: The Rebel Playbook for World-Class Employee Engagement – Glenn Elliot and Debra Corey
• The Speed of Trust – Stephen M R Covey.
• Good to Great – Jim Collins
• When Giants Learn to Dance – Rosabeth Moss-Kanter

The course looked at:

What strategic thinking is and why it’s so important

• Coming to terms with the ambiguity of strategic thinking;
• What it can mean in practice
• The difference between strategic thinking and strategic planning
• Strategic approaches used in your organisation and barriers
• Learning as an organisation

Different approaches to strategic thinking

• The competencies of a strategic thinker
• Creative vs critical thinking
• A strategic approach to change – tools and techniques
• The systems thinking approach
• An inclusive approach and cultural change