Strategic thinking for everyone. Do you want to see the possible futures before you? Do you have difficulty planning these scenarios or obtaining the right information about them? Would you like to make yourself more influential and achieve your goals more easily? In this specialization in strategic thinking, learn to imagine and plan future scenarios, identify relevant data about them, and choose the optimal approach in your interactions.
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With the help of Dr. Timibi Aganbe from ASU’s School of Innovation in Society, the Strategic Thinking specialization will precisely equip you with the tools, knowledge, and strategies of strategic thinking. You will learn the basics and familiarize yourself with your strategic toolkit. Then, you will apply them directly in practical scenarios.
You can’t always know what’s coming, but you can imagine it. You have the ability to embrace new ideas and remain optimistic about the future. This is the essence of future thinking. By stepping outside your usual framework and asking the right questions, you can begin to imagine new scenarios and use them to inform your decisions.
For those trying to think ahead and act strategically, such thinking is essential. With the expertise of Dr. Timiabi Agana from ASU’s School for the Future of Innovation in Society, the Future Thinking course will give you the tools, knowledge, and strategies to imagine possible futures.
Sticking to your usual framework won’t create every possible future. Instead, keep an open mind and stay optimistic. You also need to learn what questions to ask. By the end of your process, you should have the tools to step outside your usual framework and imagine new scenarios that you can plan for—skills that anyone can learn and apply anywhere.
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Information is key to every decision and every strategic move you make. But making sure you have the right information takes work. Don’t look for an answer in every direction, and don’t force the solution you’re looking for.
Instead, you can use a hypothesis and test it with data until the data fits the situation you are looking at. With the expertise of Dr. Timiabi Agana from ASU’s School for the Future of Innovation in Society, the Gathering and Vetting Information course will provide you with the tools, knowledge, and strategies for high-quality research.
Data collection is not about using every source you come across. It’s about finding relevant information after considering many perspectives – that is, examining your information.
You will need to check data against your assumptions and explore the insights you can share – skills that anyone can learn and apply anywhere.
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You can plan what you want to achieve, but other people will always be a factor. Planning for other people’s sessions is not something to be taken lightly. You need to understand what people want, but you also need to maintain your influence on the conversation.
Ultimately, you can use this knowledge to plan for any scenario. With the expertise of Dr. Timiabi Agana from ASU’s School for the Future of Innovation in Society, the Perspective-Taking course will equip you with the tools, knowledge, and strategies for strategic conversation.
Perspective taking has a lot to do with listening and understanding what motivates people. When you understand this, you can begin to identify the logic they use in their actions.
When you identify and model your strategies according to your goals, you can also establish influence in conversations. By doing so, you learn to understand the other side, determine what their strategy is and approach them with what you want in a clear way – all of these skills can be learned and applied anywhere.
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Planning can take you far, but only if you know why you are planning. To think strategically, you need to analyze insights and evaluate possible scenarios before building your strategy.
You can eliminate some of the uncertainties and identify trends, but you need the right process. You need to first gain insights, then take a deep look at what you have.
With all the right information, you can start making informed decisions about your next steps. With the expertise of Dr. Timiabi Agana from ASU’s School for the Future of Innovation in Society, the Strategic Thinking course will give you the tools, knowledge, and strategies to develop strategies.
Strategic thinking involves more than just building a plan: you need to analyze the world around you. The trends and uncertainties affecting your situation will help you reach a decision and plan scenarios in advance – skills that anyone can learn and apply anywhere.
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