Strategic Thinking: Central to Every Aspect Your Growth and Success
10:30 AM - 2:00 PM EST
Speaker(s):
Karen Osborne, Senior Strategist, The Osborne Group, Inc.
Topic Key Concepts
Concepts covered for understanding of a topic/mastery of a competency.
- What Strategic Thinking is, why it is important for you to master, and why we seldom carve out time for it – Covering a working definition, the difference between strategic and tactical, articulating vision and values, anticipating opportunities and adversity, scanning the environment, measuring, and analyzing, goal setting and planning
- Flexible thinking – Asking tough questions (strategic and generative; not What but Why and How), listening with an open mind, synthesizing data, information, points of view, removing silos, and creating needed innovations as a result.
- Leading and managing change – Coalition building, removing barriers, enabling champions, risk taking, facing, and resolving conflict, encouraging a culture of collaboration and creativity.
Topic Takeaways/Deliverables
Expectations for what should be learned from this session.
Participants will:
- Strengthen their strategic thinking skills.
- Know how to cultivate, practice, and apply strategic thinking to their current position, agreed upon project, and future positions.
- Use/test these honed skills throughout their work in the Academy thus maximizing the experience.
Topic Supporting/Additional Resources (optional and can be as many as desired)
Books, articles or videos that deepen/support the learning from this session.
- Deep Dive by Rich Horwath
- Listening to Understand (Julian Treasure)
- Strategic Management Questions (The Osborne Group)
- Generative Questions (Michelle Clarke)
- Mission Measurement
- Strategic Thinking Interview Questions (The Osborne Group)
Potential Guest Speakers for Plenary OR Panel Session
- Angelique Grant - Senior Consultant and Certified Diversity Recruiter Aspen Leadership Group
- Laurel McCombs
- Constance French