Strategic Thinking & Decision-Making Training
Program Content
Course Outline:
• The Swoosh & Star: A simple, but elegant model for thinking strategically.
• What gets in the way of thinking and planning in companies today?
• Introduce concept of “Improvisational Thinking” when there is little time to think and plan.
• Overview of the MindMap as an Improvisational Thinking tool.
• Participants are organized into teams (or they can work individually or with a partner).
• Each team/person is either given a list of predetermined issues to select from or they can select an issue themselves. Note: We work with you to develop a list of issues participants can select. In this way the training can be tailored so that participants work on a real issue to them and the company.
• Using this issue, we proceed through each section of the MindMap explaining, teaching, interpreting and engaging each team/person to ensure understanding. This is interactive and hands-on as we constantly draw them out and engage them at every step of the way.
• If time permits, each team will present the result of their thinking and/or their plan to the rest of the group.
• Key summary of learning.
• How to take this back and use it in your department.
• Course evaluation.
TAKE-AWAYS:
Your managers learn these key takeaways from the MindMap process:
• A thinking and decision-making tool–the MindMap–that can be applied to any issue.
• How to see an issue from a 360-degree analysis.
• How to think in terms of both short-term fixes and long-term solutions.
• Advanced SWOT process that takes SWOT analysis to a higher, more usable and practical level.
• Optional thinking–there is more than one way. Balancing conflicting and opposing scenarios.
• Audience analysis–who will be affected and how will they react and respond.
• Planning for roadblocks and resistances.
• Concepts of letting go and doing differently.
• Building a “Design Team” of people who will be both supportive and uncooperative and why it’s important to involve and engage them early on.
• Focus on results, setting an aspiration and how to tie it into your company’s principles.
• How to use the MindMap as a tool for getting employee engagement and buy-in.
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