Strategic Thinking & Planning
How to think beyond the day-to-day: scanning the environment, choosing what not to do, connecting team goals to organisational strategy, and turning direction into a simple, reviewable team plan. For supervisors, engineers and professionals in industrial and energy organisations, and for self-directed learners.
55m
Total time
4
Competency levels
12
Lessons
What you'll learn
- Explain the difference between strategy and operations, and why real strategy means choosing what NOT to do
- Scan the environment with a simple SWOT and turn the findings into a small set of strategic choices
- Prioritise competing demands with explicit trade-offs instead of trying to do everything
- Connect team goals to the organisation's strategy so every member can say why their work matters
- Build a simple team plan across now/next/later horizons and communicate it clearly
- Review the plan on a regular rhythm and adapt it deliberately when the environment changes
Curriculum
Progress through each competency level in order.
1
Awareness
- 3mStrategy Is Choosing What Not to DoKnowledge
- 3mThe Line of Sight: Team Goals and Organisational StrategyKnowledge
- 7mAwareness Check: Strategy BasicsAssessment
2
Knowledge
- 3mScanning the Environment with a Simple SWOTKnowledge
- 3mPrioritisation and Trade-OffsKnowledge
- 8mKnowledge Check: Scanning and PrioritisingAssessment
3
Skill
- 3mFrom Strategy to a Simple Team PlanKnowledge
- 3mBuild a One-Page Team PlanAssignment
- 8mSkill Check: Planning in PracticeAssessment
4
Mastery
- 3mReviewing, Adapting and Leading the StrategyKnowledge
- 3mLead a Strategy Cycle End to EndAssignment
- 8mMastery Assessment: Strategic LeadershipAssessment
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