Strategic Thinking – Strengthen Your Ability to See Patterns, Opportunities and Make Informed Decisions in 2026.

  • Why get trained: Gain structured skills that help you review business and industry environments, recognize trends that matter, generate new insights, and build strategic ideas that support meaningful organizational outcomes.
  • Why it matters: Strategic thinkers look beyond day-to-day tasks and judge information with a wide perspective, helping organizations make better choices, improve planning, and adapt to changing conditions with clarity.
  • Who should attend: Managers, leaders, team members involved in planning and decision-making, and professionals who need to interpret trends, develop effective responses, and contribute to strategy conversations.

Build practical strategic thinking capability and strengthen your ability to analyze change, spot opportunities, and support better outcomes. HRD Corp Claimable.

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Overview

Learn how to strengthen your strategic thinking skills and encourage it in others during this AMA-2018: Strategic Thinking training course. Through case studies and practical thinking exercises, you’ll stimulate your strategic thinking, learn to recognize patterns that impact strategy and enhance your abilities to generate new insights and ideas.

Come to your next strategic planning session with the best possible strategic ideas—and help your business move forward in an increasingly competitive world.

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Skills Covered

  • Introduction to strategic thinking: a new way of thinking and looking at the world
  • Identifying trends and patterns in the macro environment
  • Reviewing the business and industry environment; assessing your current organization
  • Practicing strategic thinking calisthenics
  • Generating ideas and creating plans with a big-picture perspective
  • Building an action plan to expand the strategic thinking skills of yourself and colleagues

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites required to attend this course.

Target Audience

  • Individual contributors, managers, directors and other leaders who need strategic thinking skills to gain better business insights and identify trends that can contribute to a more successful business strategy

Course Curriculum

Module 1: Learning Objectives

  • Leverage New Skills to Support Your Strategic Thinking Every Day
  • Apply a Process to Envision Your Organization’s Desired Future
  • Recognize the Influences Within and Outside Your Organization That Could Support or Derail Your Future Goals
  • Identify the Changes Necessary to Reach Your Future Goals
  • Expand the Number of Perspectives That Influence Your Moves Forward
  • Create a Plan for Building Skills and Testing Your Ideas

Module 2: Context of Strategic Thinking

  • Define Strategic Thinking and Recognize How It Can Be Used in Your Day-to-Day Work
  • Compare and Contrast Strategic Thinking to Analytical Thinking, Critical Thinking, and Inductive and Deductive Reasoning
  • Identify the Characteristics of Strategic Thinkers

Module 3: Strategic Thinking Process and Skills

  • Explain a Model for Strategic Thinking in Day-to-Day Activities and Work Applications
  • List Skills and Tools That Can Be Used to Support Strategic Thinking

Module 4: Assess the Current State

  • Identify the Influences and Relationships at Different Levels of an Organization That Can Impact a Strategy
  • Recognize and Identify Patterns of Interaction and Development That Are Likely to Influence the Effectiveness of a Strategy
  • Incorporate Multiple Perspectives on a Possible Strategy, and Assess Different Influences on the Potential Success

Module 5: Envision a Desired Future State

  • Envision a Desired Future State
  • Recognize and Use Thinking Skills That Support Imagining New Ways of Relating to the Market and Customers

Module 6: Build Your Path on Paper

  • Identify and Sequence the Multiple Steps to Move from the Current State of the Issue/Opportunity to the Desire Future State
  • Anticipate the Reactions/Responses of Others in the Larger Systems Impacting Your Situation
  • Identify and Conduct Experiments and Tests That Point Your Way Forward

Module 7: Implement Your Strategic Knowledge and Skills

  • Assess What You Gained from Applying Strategic Thinking Tools to Your Project
  • Anticipate Pitfalls You May Encounter as a Strategic Thinker
  • Create an Action Plan for Development of Strategic Thinking Skills

Dates & Locations

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July 6, 2026 - July 7, 2026

Location: Kuala Lumpur
Modal: ILT
Availability: TBC
RM 3500

July 6, 2026 - July 7, 2026

Location: Online
Modal: VILT
Availability: TBC
RM 3500

October 1, 2026 - October 2, 2026

Location: Kuala Lumpur
Modal: ILT
Availability: TBC
RM 3500

October 1, 2026 - October 2, 2026

Location: Online
Modal: VILT
Availability: TBC
RM 3500
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Exam & Certification

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