Friday Forum: Leadership & Management | Strategic Thinking: From Reacting to Choosing
Strategic Thinking: From Reacting to Choosing
Most people managers spend their weeks responding: to requests, to escalations, to whatever is loudest. Strategic thinking is the habit of stepping out of that long enough to decide what actually deserves your team’s time, and why.
In this session, we’ll break strategic thinking into practices you can use in a normal week, not just in an annual planning cycle.
Topics we’ll explore:
How to tell a real strategic problem from a busy one
Asking better questions before committing to a solution
Making trade-offs visible to your team and your stakeholders
Building alignment with the people who matter before the formal decision
This is for you if:
You’ve been asked to “be more strategic” and want a concrete starting point
Your calendar is full of urgent work and you can’t see the important work
You need to explain the reasoning behind your team’s priorities to others
Not for you if:
You’re looking for a single framework that solves every situation
You want a lecture with no room for discussion
Come with a real decision or priority you’re facing. We’ll work through it together.
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Have questions or other inquiries related to this series? Reach out to us at info@seattletechforum.org.