Strategic Thinking & Advanced Problem Solving Workshop
9th - 10th, April 2025 / Sydney, AU
OVERVIEW
• Learn practical outcome-driven models for strategic decision-making
• Explore a systematic approach for problem analysis and strategy formulation
• Understand your role as a leader in empowering others to address challenges
• Overcome common roadblocks to resolve complex problems
TRAINER
Fiona Maggs
Fiona is a seasoned leader with a wealth of experience spanning over 17 years at Coca-Cola Amatil, as well as senior roles including Sales Director at Unilever, and Managing Director at Lumaten Shopper Research Consultancy. Fiona delivers programs in strategy, problem-solving, sales, negotiations, and leadership, while also offering executive coaching from emerging leaders to the C-suite. She is passionate about driving growth, building high-performing teams, and empowering ambitious leaders.
Leadership Expert & Executive Coach
Dial Consulting
AGENDA
Workshop
Strategic thinking and problem solving
- How the current context is shaping organisations
- The role of strategic thinking in senior leadership
- Respond to emerging challenges
Enhancing your decision-making
- Cognitive principles, and tools essential for effectiveness
- Address common limitations and challenges
- Utilise models, tools and tactics to enhance overall capabilities
Advanced problem solving for senior leaders
- Objectively collect and evaluate evidence
- Explore reason-based approaches to tackle complex solving
- Apply rational and creative problem solving tools and techniques
Leading and influencing others on key issues
- Effectively engage stakeholders to understand the problem and identify potential solutions
- Integrate multi-stakeholder perspectives and facilitate shared understanding
- Resolve conflict and disagreement in group problem solving
-
Fiona Maggs Leadership Expert & Executive Coach Dial Consulting
Workshop
Definition: Understanding the problem
- Reach agreement on the problem: Define key variables, known causes, structure, scope, stakeholder impact, interdependencies and constraints
- Evaluate problem impacts
- Develop solution criteria and the problem solving approach
Analysis: Identifying and evaluating possible solutions
- Generate and evaluate solutions based on feasibility, impact, and risk
- Take stock of required skills, knowledge, and resources to resolve the problem or realise the opportunity
- Leadership, management, planning and team deployment considerations
Implementation: from strategy to results
- Test solutions: prototypes, pilots, simulations
- Adopt a systematic approach to solution implementation
- Build engagement and embedding change
Overcoming roadblocks to strategic thinking and problem solving
- Cognitive biases, ideological paradigms and group-based
- The inherently challenging nature of ‘wicked problems’
- Cultivate your skills and maintain your edge as a strategic thinker and problem solver
-
Fiona Maggs Leadership Expert & Executive Coach Dial Consulting
GROUP DISCOUNTS
PRICING
Value Plus
Ends January 15
SAVE UP TO $700
Super Saver
Ends February 07
SAVE UP TO $500
Early Bird
Ends March 07
SAVE UP TO $300
VENUE
Cliftons Sydney
Level 13, 60 Margaret St, Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia
+61 2 9250 0999