Strategic thinking skills
Strategic thinking skills are any skills that enable you to use critical thinking to solve complex problems and plan for the future. Naturally, these skills are necessary to achieve business goals, overcome obstacles and solve challenges, especially if the issue of time frame is important.
Now; What do strategic thinking skills include?
Analytical skills
In order to come up with ideas and design a strategy that will help your organization to achieve its goals, you must have the ability to analyze all types of inputs. From financial statements and KPIs, to market conditions, emerging business trends and internal resource allocation. This initial analysis is very important to create a strategy that matches the existing reality of your organization.
Communication skills
Realizing a strategy for a company, regardless of its size, requires strong communication skills. The ability to communicate complex ideas, collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, build consensus, and ensure that people and employees are aligned in an effort to achieve common goals are all essential to strategic thinking.
problem solving skills
Strategic planning is often used to solve problems or overcome challenges such as missed financial goals, inefficient workflows, or an emerging competitor. Implementing a strategy that solves your main challenge requires that you first understand the problem and potential solutions. From there, you can choose the right strategy.
Planning and management skills
Let me say that; Strategy is not only about thinking about the solution, but also includes implementation. That is, when the data is analyzed, then the problem is understood and a solution is determined.
Therefore; It takes strong planning and management skills to pull everything together.
What should we do to improve strategic thinking?
Asking strategic questions
For example, ask yourself questions like this:
How can we strategically provide a position to enter a new market?
What is the growth direction of each product or service?
Where will the growth of the organization come from in the next five years?
How should the organization respond to the threat posed by potential and actual competitors?
Correct observation and reflection
In addition to asking strategic questions, a good strategy is to look at where you are right now. Look realistically, not fancifully.
Instead of blindly following a hypothesis, collect as much information as possible, interview and get comments to formulate the marketing and product development strategy.
In fact, I myself believe that weak people are waiting for a miracle, a savior, and nonsense statements from motivational conferences and books, and they have illusory hope and motivation. According to Mr. Nietzsche, use your logic and reason not to be vulnerable. So, don’t have hope and motivation for nothing, that the day after tomorrow, with a small incident, all your motivations and hopes will be destroyed and you won’t do anything. Business, like life, is not a joke.
Hear and examine opposing ideas
Pay for training
Or at least be willing to learn and read a few books and references. Don’t trust these nonsense business fathers and consultants that you see on Billboard with four pictures and motivational sentences.
God, we don’t have a shortage of honest people in this country.
I think it is enough for a person to have nothing but to have vision.
Sincere
@startup_30T
This post is written by Rimaazz1