What happens when your team is so busy solving today’s problems that no one is planning for tomorrow?
Learn how to lead with:
Perspective.
Innovation.
Action.
Strategic thinking isn’t reserved for the boardroom. Strategic Thinking & Innovation explores how to look at challenges from multiple perspectives, weigh risks and opportunities, consider the people affected, and move ideas from concept to implementation. It gives you practical tools to lead your team from reactive problem-solving toward intentional, forward-looking decisions.
What You'll Explore
- How to apply strategic thinking to workplace problems, priorities and decisions.
- How internal readiness and external factors affect what you can implement.
- How to use strategic planning tools to assess risks, opportunities and constraints.
- How to identify stakeholders and plan how to engage them.
- How to anticipate long-term impacts, barriers and implementation challenges.
- How to use structured innovation techniques to generate and evaluate ideas.
- How to prioritize solutions by impact, feasibility and alignment, and communicate your recommendations with clarity and confidence.
What You'll Gain
- You’ll leave with practical tools for strategic analysis and innovation, a clearer way to prioritize ideas and weigh risk, and the confidence to present recommendations and turn them into an implementation plan.
- The goal isn’t to predict the future. It’s to make more intentional choices today, so your team spends less time reacting and more time moving toward what matters.
See the Bigger Picture → Assess Readiness and Risk → Engage Stakeholders → Generate and Prioritize Ideas → Turn Strategy Into Action.
The learning journey moves from stepping back to see the wider context of a challenge, to assessing readiness, risks and opportunities, understanding and engaging the people affected, generating and prioritizing ideas, and ultimately communicating recommendations and building a plan to put them into action.The MCE Learning Experience
This is a highly interactive, reflection-based course. Through practical discussions, workplace scenarios, collaborative activities and structured innovation exercises, you’ll apply strategic thinking tools to real workplace challenges and practice turning ideas into recommendations and plans.
Your workbook is an important part of the experience. It brings together the key concepts, models, tools, and reflection activities from the course, giving you a place to capture your own insights and examples. Use it throughout training and reflect on it afterwards to apply the tools in your day-to-day leadership.
Ready to Lead More Strategically?
Strategic Thinking & Innovation is a CORE course in the BUILD pathway. Take it on its own to build a specific skill, or as part of a pathway to turn that skill into lasting change.
Cohorts are available for this course. Or ask us how it fits into a pathway.
Want to start with how you set your own priorities? See Managing Time, Priorities & Energy in the DEVELOP pathway.