Assignment Overview: Strategic thinking skills are any skills that enable you to use critical thinking to solve complex problems and plan for the future. These skills are essential to accomplish business objectives

Assignment Overview: Strategic thinking skills are any skills that enable you to use critical thinking to solve complex problems and plan for the future. These skills are essential to accomplish business objectives, overcome obstacles, and address challenges—particularly if they’re projected to take weeks, months, or even years to achieve. Strategic thinking skills include: Analytical skills: To ideate a strategy that helps your organization reach its objectives, you must be capable of analyzing a variety of inputs—from financial statements and KPIs, to market conditions, emerging business trends, and internal resource allocation. This initial analysis is crucial to creating a strategy that aligns with your organization’s current reality. Communication skills: Putting a strategy into place for your company, regardless of its size, requires solid communication skills. Communicating complex ideas, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, building consensus, and ensuring everyone is aligned and working toward shared goals are all central to strategic thinking. Read The McKinsey Communication Pyramid Principle article to better understand how the world’s top strategy consulting firm, McKinsey, approaches communication. Problem-solving skills: Strategic planning is often used to solve problems or address challenges, such as missed financial targets, inefficient workflows, or an emerging competitor. Implementing a strategy that addresses your central challenge requires first understanding the problem and its potential solutions. From there, you can craft a strategy that solves it. Planning and management skills: Strategy isn’t just about thinking of a solution—it involves implementation, too. Once data has been analyzed, the problem is understood, and a solution has been identified, you need strong planning and management skills to bring everything together. For more details, visit the Harvard Business School Online’s Business Insights BlogLinks to an external site.. Assignment Steps: Throughout this term, write a single-spaced, 12-point font-size paper of approximately 3-5 pages that includes the following: Plan: Write a plan to spend one week working to improve any two of the skills listed above in the workplace, in classes, and/ or in your personal life. Execute: Now, execute this plan one week for each skill. Analyze: Describe your experiences—good and bad. What did you notice that was different after practicing these skills? What could you have done to practice these skills even more effectively? Improve: What steps could you take to improve these skills in the future? Hints: You can practice Analytical Skills by completing the application-based activities for Chapters 3 and 4, and Communication skills within your project team when discussing SWOT Analysis of your team’s case study. You can also practice Problem-solving skills and Communication skills within your project team when discussing Alternative Strategies for your team’s case study. You can practice Planning and Management Skills by completing the application-based activities for Chapters 9 and 11, and Communication skills within your project team when discussing how to Implement Proposed Strategies (e.g., mergers, acquisitions, alliances, organizational structure, organizational culture, and control systems) for your team’s case study. Good luck, and I look forward to seeing your work! CAUTION: You may not use AI technology tools for any purpose in your Personal Development Paper, except for simple spelling and grammar checks. The Personal Development Paper is a personal development plan, in which you are supposed to write about what skills you have learned from the class and related action plan. So, there is no reason to use AI to generate initial ideas, an outline, or other content.