Be Strategic or Be Gone:
Strategic Thinking for Competitive Advantage

Recent studies on leadership by the Wall Street Journal and Chief Executive Magazine have found that the #1 ranked, most valued skill in leaders today is strategic thinking. But only 3 out of every 10 managers are strategic. In this interactive and highly relevant session, Rich Horwath helps employees at all levels understand what strategy is and how to think strategically on a daily basis to help their businesses. The result is participants leave with a strategic thinking framework and practical tools to reach their true strategic potential.

Key Learning’s:

1. What is strategic thinking?
2. Why is strategic thinking important?
3. The three disciplines of strategic thinking:
   • Acumen: how to generate new ideas
   • Allocation: how to prioritize activities
   • Action: how to stay focused on the important, not urgent
4. Effective ways for generating new ideas that grow profits
5. How to use resources (time, people and budget) more productively

Deep Dive: Becoming a Truly Strategic Leader

The #1 cause of bankruptcy is bad strategy. Management teams that don’t have solid, written strategies today, may not have a business tomorrow. In this interactive and practical session, Rich Horwath takes the mystery out of strategy, simplifies it and gives participants a five-step process for developing it. The result is participants leave with a common understanding of strategy, new tools for developing it and a process for actually using it to drive their daily activities.

Key Learning’s:

1. What is strategy?
2. Why is strategy important?
3. Understanding the difference between goals, objectives, strategies and tactics
4. How to transform a business from a “me-too” commodity into highly valued competitive advantage.
5. Practical tools to develop strategies that increase profits and productivity.