Strategic Thinking & Advanced Problem Solving 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

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