Strategic Thinking and Strategic Communication for Engineers (Virtual Classroom)
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Virtual Classroom
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VCPD676Language:
Develop a strategic mindset, approach challenges with innovation and employ strategic thinking and communication to add value to your organization.
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Schedule
This course commences at 9:30 AM and ends at 6:00 PM Eastern each day, with breaks scheduled throughout.
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Engineers and engineering professionals can use strategic thinking and communication to hone in on the skills that allow them to work through unknown situations and ensure long-term personal and professional success. Strategic thinkers can distinguish between causation and correlation, emotion and intellect. They can apply proven methods to evaluate risk and determine the best choice for action.
In this course you will be presented with both standard tools (e.g., SWOT) and innovative approaches to help develop your strategic mindset.
You will learn how to discern fallacious reasoning traps as well as ways to counter them.
In addition, you will practice using a powerful model to construct and deliver a winning argument.
By participating in this course, you will learn how to successfully:
- Recognize opportunities to influence and create strategic alliances
- Use strategic thinking to identify key strengths and weaknesses in your work group
- Apply strategic models that can be used immediately
- Develop persuasive skills to sell your strategic idea
- Describe and apply strategic and tactical thinking, paradigms, risk, and judgment in all aspects of your work
- Employ strategic thinking to add value to your organization
- Identify one’s own thinking style and how to improve individual and group functioning
- Explain how to apply the cost/benefit of risk
Who should attend?
This course is designed for engineering professionals and their managers, supervisors, and team leaders who need to improve their decision-making skills and enhance their strategic outlook.
Course Materials (included in the purchase of course)
- Digital course notes via ASME’s Learning Platform
This ASME Virtual Classroom course is held live with an instructor on our online learning platform. A Certificate of Completion will be issued to registrants who successfully attend and complete the course.
Strategic Thinking overview and interactive discussion
- The underlying attitude to facilitate strategic thinking
- Establishing a strategic state of mind (with everything)
Vision as a key ingredient in Strategic Thinking
- Seeing is believing or believing is seeing
- If you change the way you look at things; the things that you look at change
The Big Picture Mindset
- Identifying Biases
- Overcoming the bias of emotional response
- Considering the picture where you are “not alone in the room”
- The Zoom-out Zoom-in methodology
- White Space strategy - key question “What have you not thought about or considered that if you did would change your decision dramatically?” (in personal & collective endeavor).
- Black Swan readiness
Taking decision-making to the next level - things you must consider before you make decisions
- Yesterday is not your benchmark
- Identify facts vs perception (yours)
- Identifying cause & symptom
- Separate facts from fiction
- The FED model
Strategic Communication
- The 3 keys to clarity
- Equating expectations strategy
- Feedback strategy
Critical Thinking as Key Ingredient in Strategic Thinking
- Reasons
- First Principle
- Star system
The parameters of EQ (Emotional Intelligence) in Strategic Thinking
- It’s all a people’s business
- Determining the “intelligent emotion” that is needed
- Humanizing your professionalism
- Being a strategic change agent at changing times
Summary - Q&A, Dotting the I’s and crossing the T’s
Eli Harari
The Thinking Coach
Eli Harari has over 25 years of international experience in facilitating corporate executive seminars, teaching in educational institutions, and training government officials globally.
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