Strategic Thinking Resources
Benchmark Your Team’s Strategic Capabilities
Find out how strategic your team typically operates and identify focus areas to improve strategic bench!
Prevent Bias or Assumptions From Influencing You
The Bias Buster can help you identify where there may be bias in your decision making, project management and can help you build a plan to prevent Bias.
The Strategic Impact Lens
Looking to boost the impact of your current work? The Strategic Impact Lens helps you discover how your project can achieve a greater strategic impact.
Sounding Board Questions for Sharper Thinking
Sharpen the Thinking, Strengthen the Decision. A practical guide to helping others challenge assumptions, uncover blind spots, and think more clearly—without giving advice.
How Strategic is Your Thinking?
Are you a natural strategic thinker? Here are some questions that strategic thinkers ask themselves to build strategic muscle.
Ready to Build Your Strategic Muscle?
Find out how you can schedule a Strategic Playground Workshop for your organization! Holding a Strategic Playground workshop is a great way to build a more strategic team and organization.
Become a “Stakeholder Whisperer!”
Your go-to tool for unlocking what really matters. This high-impact guide helps you ask sharp, trust-building questions that surface priorities, uncover hidden needs, and spark alignment.
Strategic Disruption Kit
Shake up stale thinking and spark bold new ideas. Use this quick-hit, high-impact Kit - solo or with your team - to reframe challenges, question assumptions, and uncover fresh possibilities—fast.
Ask Powerful
Questions
Did you know that there are some questions that can raise the strategic level of conversation in any meeting or in a one on one discussion?
Get at the Root of Your Problem!
Use the Strategic Challenge Framework to clearly define the problem, focus your time and resources, communicate more effectively with others, and identify the root causes so you can explore creative solutions.
Different Questions, Different Solutions.
Different Questions, Different Solutions will help you break through mental barriers, reframe your thinking, and can help you find new solutions you might not have considered.
Uncover Strategic Thinking Gaps
Use this quick discovery guide when time is tight or as a first filter before a deeper conversation. Ask 3–5 of these questions, listening for signs of reactivity, lack of alignment, or tactical thinking dominating strategic planning.