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The role of strategic leader requires different skills and perspectives than those required by day-to-day operational leadership roles. Learn the 3 behaviors you must engage in to become a strategic leader.
A well-crafted, well-implemented strategy is essential to an organization’s long-term success. Yet it’s a common misconception that leading strategically is all about making the right choice at the right time.
Managers and executives often struggle to move strategy beyond setting direction or goals and toward an ongoing process of transforming and sustaining the organization.
That’s because thinking strategically and acting accordingly requires different skills and perspectives than those required by day-to-day operational leadership roles.
Thinking strategically as a leader is broader in scope, with decisions that impact areas outside your own functional area, business unit, or even the organization.
It’s future-focused, operating with a far-reaching timetable that integrates short-term results and a long-term focus. And it’s change-oriented, with results that ripple throughout the organization.
By recognizing opportunities to become a better strategic leader and finding ways to develop strategic thinking, you can play a critical role in supporting your organization’s long-term success.
Whether you choose an in-person or virtual strategic thinking in leadership program, your leaders can develop strategic thinking skills through honing these behaviors:
Start building a long-term outlook for success at your organization by equipping your team with strategic leadership skills. Explore our world-class, research-backed content and our flexible content delivery options.
You can use our proven content to to deliver a workshop or internal training to develop strategic leadership skills across your organization:
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Or, we can incorporate thinking and acting strategically as part of a larger leadership development initiative for your organization:
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Organizations who have partnered with us to develop strategic thinking consistently tell us the same thing: their experience with CCL made a significant impact on their culture — and their bottom line.
But don’t just take our word for it — take theirs.
“We spend a lot of time formulating and implementing our strategy. Our time with CCL allows the senior leaders to step back and reflect on the human impact of our strategic decisions and the implications for the leadership culture necessary to achieve our aims.”
Walter Bayly
CEO
Credicorp
“For me, the biggest ‘a-ha’ was realizing that even though we, as a senior leadership team, are very good at communicating our corporate message throughout the organization, we can use some simple strategies to make sure that everyone not only knows our strategies but lives them. By having the entire team fully embrace their part of the puzzle, we will have more motivated team members.”
Pamela McNamara
VP of Sales, US
Kao Group
Our experts are here to help. Let’s have a conversation about how to develop strategic thinking among leaders at your organization and how our acting and thinking strategically content could help support your development initiatives.
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Package our research-backed strategy content with other proven leadership development topics and solutions for a customized, scalable solution perfect for your organization’s unique needs, context, and culture — either in-person or in a virtual strategic leadership program. Related topics include:
