Strategic Thinking for Everyone Specialization

Strategic Thinking for Everyone. Do you want to see the possible futures ahead of you? Do you struggle with planning for those scenarios or getting and sharing the right information about them? Do you want to make yourself more influential and reach your goals easier? In this Strategic Thinking specialization, learn to imagine and plan for future scenarios, identify relevant data about them and choose the optimal approach in your interactions.
By the end of the specialization, you will be able to:
- Imagine possible futures with intentional questions and maintain agency over those futures.
- Analyze possible scenarios to plan for each and identify how to achieve desired outcomes.
- Gather relevant, comprehensive data for scenario planning and retain lasting insights to share.
- Identify the perspectives and strategies of others and gain influence using these insights.

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Strategic Thinking (Coursera)

Planning will get you far, but only if you know what you’re planning for. To think strategically, you need to analyze insights and evaluate possible scenarios before building that strategy. It’s possible to eliminate some uncertainties and identify trends, but you need the right process. You’ll have to gain [...]

Information Gathering and Vetting (Coursera)

Information is key to every decision and every strategic move you make. But ensuring you have the right information takes work. Don’t look in every direction for an answer, and don’t force the solution you’re looking for. Instead, you can use a hypothesis and test it with data until [...]

Perspective-Taking (Coursera)

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Futures Thinking (Coursera)

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