Note:  Breakfast and check-in at 7:30 AM
Discover why organizations require leaders at all levels that can think strategically, anticipate issues, solve problems, and make decisions based on new and emerging information and the long-term vision for the project and the enterprise.  Walk away with myriad of practical strategic tools and techniques you can apply immediately in your work.

Let’s face it. Times have changed. It’s easy to get consumed by the ever-increasing challenges posed by sponsors, team members, business partners, and other stakeholders. Only, to be able to determine how best to respond, what we often do not realize is that we must immerse ourselves in the future. We need to figure out how to create meaning from all the uncertainties, trends, and conjectures that appear on the horizon but in reality have already begun. And to know when to stop analyzing and breaking about the data and learn to synthesize the thousands of pieces of information about the future into breakthroughs that will catapult your project forward.

Workshop Objectives

1. Distinguish between strategic thinking and analysis thinking.
2. Integrate information about the future into the work that is done prior to creating a project plan.
3. Talk to a project team about creating a future story to expand upon the project’s vision.
4. Identify what is needed to sustain a project after implementation and integrate it into the project plan up front.
5. Identify high-level interdependencies between your project and other projects and initiatives in the organization.
6. Begin to identify the new assumptions underlying your project and those being used by key stakeholders and project members that may be in conflict.
7. Outline the various rungs on the ladder of inference for a specific project situation and know how to address this.
8. Listen for critical thinking issues in conversations and intervene to get more information.

Additionally, you may be interested in a companion workshop hosted in the Rochester the following day:  More Than a Quick Fix:  Organizational Change that Sticks.