Research has shown that the #1 cause of business failure is bad strategy and only 23% of managers are strong at strategic thinking. The Strategic Thinking Insittute is the worldwide leader in strategic thinking and planning capability development with a full spectrum of resources to serve new managers all the way up to experienced C-Suite executives. Founder and President Rich Horwath is a New York Times & Wall Street Journal bestselling author of 8 books on strategic thinking and has helped more than one million people around the world develop their strategic thinking skills. In addition to strategic thinking workshops, he facilitates strategic planning sessions with senior leadership teams and provides strategic executive coaching to help leaders maximize their performance.
We have numerous offerings to sustain strategic thinking and planning capability development to transform learing from an event into an ongoing process. The Strategic Fitness System leadership development platform containing more than 50 micro courses, a digital strategic thinking journal, and a Strategic AI coach for customized feedback. The Strategy Vault is another skill sustainability resource center providing hundreds of articles, videos, audios, infographics and strategy templates to support long-term growth. The award-winning StrategyMan Strategic Thinking Certification Course is a gamified, video-based learning experience designed to significantly increase strategic thinking and planning capabilities. This comprehensive program contains 84 knowledge questions, 36 scenarios to solve, and 20 strategy exercises, for a total of 140 potential points to score. The course follows the story of managers at a fictitious company called TechnoBody as they battle the Anti-Strategy Squad comprised of villains representing the top 20 strategy challenges managers face (e.g., fire drills: Fire Driller; bad meetings: Meeting Menace, etc.) through video animation, music, and interactive assessments. The StrategyMan Strategic Thinking Certification Course consists of 12 levels, with each level containing a mission to complete and a villain to defeat. The Strategy Espresso Microlearning Series offers a weekly shot of strategic thinking and planning, featuring two years of weekly content for 100 touches. The microlearnings include articles, videos, podcasts, and infographics along with a question to apply the concept and tool to the business.
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Does your team exhibit any of the following issues:
1. "We're reactive, tactical and constantly fighting fires"
2. "We don't have the time or tools to think strategically"
3. "We don't have a consistent understanding of strategy"
If so, find your solution at https://www.strategyskills.com/facilitation-of-strategic-thinking-workshops/
Does your team face any of the following challenges:
1. "We don't have a simple and practical process for developing strategy."
2. "Our strategic plan is nothing more than a to-do list with a bunch of tactics."
3. "We don't have competitive advantage and risk becoming a commodity."
If so, then visit https://www.strategyskills.com/strategic-planning/
To achieve individual and organizational success, you need to sharpen your executive skills and invest in becoming the best version of yourself. You need strategic leadership development workouts that can only be found in The Strategic Fitness System.
The StrategyMan Strategic Thinking Certification Course is an award winning digital, gamified learning experience designed to significantly increase your strategic thinking and planning capabilities. This comprehensive program contains 84 knowledge questions, 36 scenarios to solve, and 20 strategy exercises, for a total of 140 potential points to score. The course follows the story of managers at a fictitious company called TechnoBody as they battle the Anti-Strategy Squad comprised of villains representing the top 20 strategy challenges managers face (e.g., fire drills: Fire Driller; bad meetings: Meeting Menace, etc.) through video animation, music, and interactive assessments. The StrategyMan Strategic Thinking Certification Course consists of 12 levels, with each level containing a mission you must complete and a villain to defeat.
A study of 250,000 executives showed that setting strategic direction is the most important role of a leader. However, research found only 22 percent of employees agree that the leaders of their organization have set a clear direction. Enhance your ability to think, plan, and act strategically by increasing your strategic fitness.
The Strategic Quotient is a measure of your strategic capabilities as exhibited through your mindset and behaviors. Your strategic capabilities consist of how you think, plan, and act strategically. The good news is that each of these areas of being strategic can be developed and improved with deliberate practice. If IQ gets you hired, and EQ gets you promoted, then SQ gets you to the C-suite.
Strategy Espresso is a weekly collection of articles, videos, podcasts, and other resources that continuously develop your strategic capabilities. To become great at anything, you need to practice it on a regular basis. Strategy is no different. Doing strategy only once a year during the strategic planning process means that you will be stuck at the tactical level. If you want to become highly strategic, you need to practice thinking strategically. The Strategy Espresso Series gives you that practice.
The Strategy Vault is the Leading Strategic Thinking Resource Center
Featuring hundreds of tools, templates, and other content to help you think, plan, and act strategically, it’s built from Rich Horwath’s 25+ years of proprietary content including his eight books and hundreds of articles, videos, audios, and infographics. It features the Strategic AI Coach, which enables you to ask questions, gain new knowledge, and receive instantaneous feedback on your GOST Framework plan. Develop your strategic thinking skills to separate yourself from the competition and realize your competitive advantage.
Based on the bestselling strategic thinking book, the Deep Dive Strategy Learning System is an online course that provides you with the knowledge, skills, and tools to think, plan, and execute strategy more effectively. Using the Deep Dive Strategic Planning Process, individuals, management teams, and organizations can learn how to:
The majority of senior leaders receive little to no professional development each year. Yet, it is their skills, behaviors and decisions that will ultimately make or break the company. How many of the following challenges do you face?
“The business is reaching a critical inflection point and I’m worried that I may be missing things in my strategies.”
“Because I spend so much time running the business and managing my direct reports, I’ve had no time for my own development”
“It’s extremely difficult to get objective feedback on my ideas because very few people internally will risk disagreeing with me.”
“I’m inconsistent in finding the discipline to block out time in my schedule to think, discuss and develop fresh new ideas for the business.”
If you have executives that need high-caliber executive coaching and development, visithttps://www.strategyskills.com/executive-coaching-and-strategic-counsel/
A study of more than 10,000 senior executives showed that the #1 most important leadership behavior critical to company success is strategic thinking. But, only 3 out of every 10 managers are strategic. And since bad strategy is the main cause of business failure 80% of the time, having managers that are effective strategists can be the difference between continued success and failure. Preview New York Times bestselling author on strategy Rich Horwath's keynote speeches: https://www.strategyskills.com/solutions/keynote-speeches/
How effectively do your actual time investments match up with your priorities? The 3A Strategic Framework of Acumen, Allocation, and Action can be an effective mental model to help you become a truly strategic leader. It requires the discipline to prioritize learning, harness your team’s best thinking, and set a course to continually overcome challenges in the pursuit of excellence. Being a senior leader should not be dictated by years on the job, but by the expertise and value a person brings. It’s an honor to lead people, so approach it as such. Do it strategically with a hunger for new insights and you’ll make the most of the opportu... More »
Strategic Thinking Development Overview
July 26, 2017 1:50pm
White Paper: The Strategic Thinking Manifesto
July 26, 2017 1:54pm
CEO
Strategic Thinking Institute
Barrington, Illinois
