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Strategic Thinking Skills
A scenario-based e-learning course on strategic thinking — reading what is changing outside the team before deciding what to do about it.
Overview
A scenario-based, self-paced e-learning course on thinking strategically at work. Learners step into the week a competitor launches something that changes the ground the team has been planning on, choose whether to answer it with what is in front of them or map the forces behind it first, and see how that call reads a year later — then learn to ask proactive rather than reactive questions and to test the options with SWOT, PESTLE and scenario planning. Delivered as a SCORM 1.2 package for your LMS, with completion tracking.
Format. Self-paced, scenario-based e-learning. SCORM 1.2 — upload it to your LMS and completion tracks automatically.
Who it is for. Any organisation that wants to run this as self-paced learning; suitable for employees at any level.
What learners take away
- Identify the key components and benefits of strategic thinking.
- Distinguish strategic thinking from strategic planning.
- Apply SWOT, PESTLE and scenario planning to workplace situations.
- Ask proactive rather than reactive questions when weighing decisions.
- Spot common barriers to strategic thinking and plan responses to them.
- Set up an action plan with SMART goals for using strategic thinking at work.
Course outline
Introductions, learning objectives, and a paired scenario exercise in which participants choose between strategic options and explain their reasoning.
The elements and components of strategic thinking, the difference between strategic thinking and strategic planning, and the advantages it brings at work.
Creating a vision, developing awareness, and asking proactive rather than reactive questions.
External factors analysis, PESTLE and SWOT, each applied to scenario exercises from the handouts.
Ways to encourage creative thinking, then scenario planning illustrated with a worked scenario-matrix example.
Participants examine what might go wrong in given situations and work through common obstacles using the barriers scenario handout.
Self-reflection leading to a personal action plan with SMART goals, followed by a recap of the learning objectives.
What you get
SCORM 1.2 package
A self-contained course you upload straight to your LMS — no installation, no dependencies.
Completion tracking
Reports status and completion back to your LMS like any SCORM course.
Scenario-based
Learners make real decisions inside a workplace story and see what each choice costs.
Per-organisation license
Host it for unlimited internal learners — one-time purchase, no per-seat or renewal fees.
The license in one sentence
Buy once and host the course on your own LMS for unlimited internal learners — no per-seat and no renewal fees. You may not resell or redistribute the SCORM package itself. Full license terms
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