Critical and Strategic Thinking

How to foster creativity and innovation through critical thinking and positioning yourself to have strategic competitive advantages.

Description

Numerous surveys show that many people hate engaging in SERIOUS THINKING. Only a few regularly think critically and strategically.

But, even for those few who practice deep thinking, the DAILY PRESSURE of life and work causes many, including executives, to default to tactical thinking.

The challenge is magnified in this social media era where we’re bombarded by unsolicited, invalidated, and unverified bitesize information without stopping.

Unless we slow down and engage in critical thinking by questioning POPULAR THOUGHTS and GOVERNING PRINCIPLES that haven't been scrutinized seriously, we will 'LOSE' one of the most important functions of our MIND leading us to do the same things again and again without making any significant PROGRESS and attaining any BREAKTHROUGHS.

Worst, we may buy into LIES, PROPAGANDAS, MISINFORMATION, which in turn could lead to making huge MISTAKES, damaged REPUTATION, and even LAW SUITS...

Unless we question our own outdated and faulty beliefs, and wrong assumptions, we end up THINKING SMALL, LOWERING OUR BARS, and make POOR DECISIONS and take MEDIOCRE ACTIONS. We also struggle to POSITION ourselves, our teams, and organizations to have STRATEGIC COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES by thinking strategically, planning, and translating our plans into results by executing flawlessly.

It is high time to stop engaging in just regular, linear, and one-dimensional thinking and begin to slowdown, overcome unnecessary information overload, think critically, 360°, and strategically to SOLVE PROBLEMS CREATIVELY and INNOVATIVELY, and also engage in STRATEGIC THINKING that offers you unfair advantages, and in turn accelerate your progress, turn your vision into realities, and SUPER EXPAND your INFLUENCE beyond your backyard...

BENEFITS

Some of the benefits of excelling at

Critical & Strategic Thinking include:

  • Gaining clarity amidst confusion

  • Coming up with multiple options & choices

  • Improved problem-solving abilities

  • Making quality & ethical decisions

  • Increased productivity and performance

  • Improved creativity and innovation

  • Better communication & connection

  • Leading strategically & achieve goals

  • Reduced risks, roadblocks, & failures

  • Forming strategic coalitions and alliances

  • Enjoying these and many more benefits

POTENTIAL TOPICS

Areas to develop to excel at thinking critically & strategically and enjoy the above benefits:

  • Challenges & barriers to serious thinking

  • Benefits of critical & strategic (C&S) thinking

  • Differentiate C&S thinking from others

  • Traits of C&S thinkers

  • Applications of C&S thinking

  • Components & Steps of Critical thinking

  • Techniques & Tools for Critical thinking

  • Elements of Strategic thinking

  • Balancing strategic with tactical thinking

  • Strategic thinking models/tools

  • Facilitating strategic planning sessions

  • Crafting a strategic plan document

HOW CAN WE HELP?

We can design and deliver the following

programs based on one, some, or all of the above topics:

  • 1-on-1 or group coaching

  • 1 - 3 days workshops or webinars

  • 3 days intense retreat-style summit

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