Systems & Strategic Thinking for Chiefs of Staff
For those who couldn’t make it to our February 23, 2017 Systems and Strategic Thinking for Chiefs of Staff workshop, we’re making available 7 video segments from the morning session and a condensed, PDF version of our actual workshop workbook that contains materials and activities referenced in the videos.
READ THIS FIRST: SOME TIPS FOR GETTING THE MOST OUT OF THESE VIDEOS
- Each video ranges from 5 – 25 minutes in length, so that you can view them in “chunks,” at your convenience.
- You will need the workbook to complete the activities and exercises referred to in the videos. Therefore, we recommend that you open the PDF notebook before beginning the videos.
- As always, your feedback and comments are the only way we can make this content and future content more useful, so email me with what you love and what you wanted more of.
You may watch the videos in any order, but we recommend viewing them in the order we presented them in the workshop itself:
Video 1: Introduction: Why Systems & Strategic Thinking for Chiefs of Staff?
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Objectives: Articulate how tactical tasks are not effective unless you always have an awareness of the context – the systems that you’re working within, the forces in the marketplace driving changes in your organization, and so forth – in which those tactical tasks are being done. Articulate why Systems and Strategic Thinking for Chiefs of Staff was one of our first one-day workshop offerings, amidst all the other topics we could have covered.
Video 2: Systems Thinking
Video 2 of 7 series. Objectives: Create a conceptual map of the systems that compose your work environment so that you can make business decisions grounded in your organization’s broader context and strategy.
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Video 3: Systems Thinking
Video 3 of 7 series. Objectives: Create a conceptual map of the trends and dynamics affecting your organization – from the outside and inside – so that you can make business decisions grounded in your organization’s broader context and strategy.
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Video 4: Shifting Between Strategy and Tactics
Video 4 of 7 series. Objectives: Consider the pros and cons of your current approach – both strategic and tactical — in light of your intended impact.
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Video 5: Strategic Management, The Marriage of Strategic Thinking and Planning
Video 5 of 7 series. Objectives: Articulate how you more effectively align tactical work to your organization’s strategy through a planning process and oversight of execution.
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Video 6: Chief of Staff Competencies: Self-Assessment
Video 6 of 7 series. Objectives: Identify strengths and areas for improvement in the universal competencies of chiefs of staff as well as the competencies that most apply in your context. Use these as the basis for your personal and professional development plans.
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Video 7: Levels of System
Video 7 of 7 series. Objectives: Create options for actions you might take at different “levels of system” to enhance your effectiveness.
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