Location
UAE, Dubai
Dates
Dates flexible (2 days)
Course Type
Professional Training Course
Accreditation
Yes (Details)
Language
English
Price
$1,800 $1,530 only

Course Overview

Managers in leading organizations are responsible for charting out the future of their organizations through identification and management of emerging threats, issues and problems, strategizing their strengths in exploiting opportunities, and setting long term goals and objectives. This process is called ‘strategic thinking.’ A recent study of Wall Street Journal of Corporate Human Resources mentioned that ‘strategic thinking’ is one of the top executive skills that organizations are looking for.

Today’s environment is turbulent and comprises of various important variables. Therefore, it provides various options or potential solutions tothe organizations in order to handle different scenarios. Those options sometimes seem impossible to achieve but with detailed analysis, they become workable and create understanding. Effective strategic thinking process requires combination of both the detailed analysis and intuition in order to make informed decisions.

Strategic thinking is a continuous process in which organizations assess the strengths and weaknesses of the company and analyze the competitor’s positions and industry trends. Decisions are made on the base of detailed analysis. Strategies’ success depends on their uniqueness and successful execution of the set goals. Strategic thinking benefits the organizations in terms of increased financial returns and return on people.

Who should take this course

The ‘Strategic Thinking and Planning’ training course is designed for middle to entry level executives of all departments of the organization.

Accreditation

IKL Certificate

Course content

  • Understand strategic thinking and strategic management
  • Develop framework for sustainable competitive advantage
  • Value-discipline strategic thinking
  • Blue-ocean strategic thinking
  • Customer-focused strategic thinking
  • Characteristics of effective organizational goals and objectives
  • Align and implement strategies using Balanced-Scorecard

The course will use case studies for discussion, latest strategy frameworks adopted from studies of Harvard Business School and INSEAD. Moreover, group work and interactive sessions will be conducted to develop the participants’ strategic thinking skills.

About Course Provider

Institute of Knowledge and Leadership (IKL) has emerged on the global map of learning, talent development and executive education as a highly advanced and qualified training platform. IKL is based in Dubai and serves prominent clients from across the MENASA region.

The distinctive factor about IKL is its significant, highly qualified and skilled pool of global trainers, primarily equipped with state of the art training methods and techniques coupled with the passion to share knowledge and to co - create a value proposition with organizations and their teams. IKL has trainers across the globe from 25 nationalities, over 200+ knowledge areas, and with a cumulative training, knowledge creation, sharing, and dissemination experience for over 1000+ years with over 2 million participants globally.