Being Strategic: Thinking and Acting with Impact

Make yourself indispensable; learn the fundamentals of strategy and focus on your company’s most strategic opportunities

Created by: Ron Carucci
Bestselling Author, Executive Coach, Mng. Partner, Navalent

What Will I Learn?

• Identify the strategic differentiation and capabilities that set your company apart
• Organize work across three organizational systems, and protect your most competitive work
• Define your role to make maximum strategic impact on your company’s performance
• Deal with the pressures and challenges of doing more strategic work

Requirements

• Basic business acumen (for example, an understanding of financial metrics like profit and loss)
• Basic understanding of how your company competes and operates (key customers and competitors, and how the organization is set up (functions, regions, etc.))

Target audience

• You are a leader with ambitions to make important impact on your company’s performance; you desire to become “more strategic,” or have been given feedback that you need to be but aren’t quite sure what it means or where to start.
• You feel like your organization isn’t focused on the most important priorities, or that they keep shifting, but aren’t quite sure why. You know you and your team can add greater strategic value, and you need to figure out how to make it happen.
• You are tired of putting out fires all day and not feeling like you’re working on the most important things your company needs you to focus on; you want to figure out how to shift your attention to the things that will be deeply gratifying, give you a sense of purpose, and actually have impact.