Thinking Strategically

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Strategic thinking isn’t just for boards and leadership teams. This course helps you develop practical strategic skills so you can make better decisions, prioritise effectively, and think beyond day‑to‑day firefighting.

£150 +VAT

4 CPD hours

365 days’ access

Use ACPD101 for 10% off any purchase.
Thinking Strategically

Thinking Strategically

(49 customer reviews)

£150 +VAT

4 CPD Course

365 days’ access

Use ACPD101 for 10% off any purchase.
Thinking Strategically

Thinking Strategically

(49 customer reviews)

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This course will enable you to

  • Understand what strategic thinking is and how it differs from plans and tactics
  • Make more effective strategic decisions using evidence, insight, and structured thinking
  • Apply common strategic tools to analyse priorities, risks, and opportunities
  • Understand how strategy works as a process, including goals, metrics, and evaluation
  • Embed strategic thinking into your professional role with confidence

About the course

In uncertain and fast‑changing environments, operational excellence alone is no longer enough. Professionals are expected to make sound decisions, allocate time and resources wisely, and explain the “why” behind their actions – often without perfect information. Strategic thinking provides a framework for navigating complexity, ambiguity, and competing priorities.

This course explores what strategy really means in practice. It looks at how strategic thinking differs from planning and tactics, how effective strategic decisions are made, and how strategy works as an ongoing process rather than a one‑off document. You’ll examine common strategic tools, learn how data and insight inform better choices, and understand the role of vision, objectives, and measurement in shaping direction.

You’ll come away with greater confidence in your ability to think strategically in your own role. This course will give you practical ways to question assumptions, manage uncertainty, and embed strategic habits into your professional life – helping you move from reacting to events to shaping outcomes.

Contents

Understanding strategy

Explaining strategic thinking
The value of strategy
Your strategic journey
Strategies, plans, and tactics

Thinking like a strategist

How to think like a strategist
Strategic skills
Making strategic decisions
Communicating decisions to others
The role of intuition

Strategy as a process

How strategy gets done
The strategic process
Vision, mission, values, objectives
The importance of strategic processes
KPIs and metrics

Strategic tools

Why strategic tools matter
Understanding the world around you
Understanding yourself
Choosing a strategic tool
Analysing value
Thinking about growth
Setting and monitoring strategic priorities

Embedding and embodying strategy

Living like a strategist
Demonstrating your strategic skills
Your strategic thinking mantra

Author

Anna Faherty accountingcpd-author

Anna Faherty

Writer, lecturer and consultant working across the publishing, museum and charity sectors.

49 reviews for Thinking Strategically

  1. Jason Bigg –

    Great insight and thoughts about strategy. Content is writing at the right level and gives insights into areas I could research in more depth

  2. Allan Young –

    Lots of valuable advice and tools to assist with thinking strategically.

  3. Lorna Wass –

    Very good, enjoyed the case studies.

  4. Julie Tannett –

    I learned a lot.

  5. Geoffrey Stokker –

    Great course that helps to solidify the basics

  6. Sydney Matiringe –

    It is a very practical and insightful. I will suggest inclusion of more practical scenarios

  7. Chandana Mukherjee –

    It was a very informative course.

  8. Peter Smith –

    This course provides a strong grounding in the need to think and act strategically. As with all such matters, putting it into practice is the key. This provides the basis and the tools and explains why they are important, it is now up to us to use them!

  9. Tshepo Milton Bogatsu –

    it is very informative and mind opening…

  10. Alan Smith –

    Enjoyed the learning – provided a platform to develop oneself and how to commence being involved in strategies.

  11. Lynn Halliday –

    good mix of video’s, reading and interactive content

  12. Shane Whiting –

  13. Alan Kerr –

    Helped my understand what strategy is and how to become more strategic

  14. Mark Halford –

    very helpful. Thank you.

  15. Stephen Ennis –

    Really good course, full of insights and helpful tips. Videos are good and break monotony of reading through different sections. Questions at end of each topic to test your knowledge

  16. Edmond Boyle –

    Bit repetitive and ignored coming AI role in strategy. Needs to be more interesting.

  17. Damanpreet singh Sandhu –

    brilliant

  18. Ainslie Whyte –

    Great course, strategic thinking is one of my development areas and course made me think and outlines several practical approaches for development.

  19. Kenneth E J Chedzey –

    A good course for anyone working in strategy that needs a focussed refresher or any one looking to gain exposure to move into the arena

  20. Masa Asele Seitshiro –

    I learned a lot about how to develop my strategic thinking skills, thinks to consider when faced with making strategic decisions and how to set myself up for a strategic decision making role.

  21. Doug Muttitt –

    This is the best “accountancy” course I’ve ever been on. An opportunity to learn how to genuinely add value to the business beyond the numbers and a way to help drive the future success of our business

  22. Keng Yat Chan –

    Concise and easy to understand.

  23. Kimberley Estwick –

    It was informative.

  24. Leya Kasalwe Musunga –

    Really helped me think a bit more on what is means to think stategically and the various tools one can use to help develop a strategy.

  25. Daragh Maccabee –

    Overall very good.

  26. Gerard P O’ Reilly –

    best course i have done on acct- cpd.i needed a refresher but also something that brought it all together in a simple way

  27. Joanne Brown –

  28. Jennifer Killeen –

    I feel that I learned new information about strategic thinking that I did not have before completing this course

  29. Martin Shiels –

    Currently trying to get involved in strategy and was very good outline

  30. Syed Raza –

    Fully met expectations.

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  33. Richard King –

    Refreshed my understanding of strategic thinking when often operational decision making takes over

  34. Fiona Rice –

  35. David Nchunga –

    it covered all major areas

  36. Fung Lan Ho –

    video

  37. Chandana Mukherjee –

    Relevant to my role as finance manager.

  38. Michele McGivern –

  39. David Willder –

    presenter was very knowledgeable

  40. Andrew Trafford –

    The course was an excellent high level view of strategy

  41. Ian Lewis –

    Well laid out and correct mix of information and videos.

  42. Peter Corrish –

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  44. Dan Cutler –

    IT gave me an a good overview of strategic planning – all that one expect in 4 hrs

  45. Sharon Armstrong –

    It wasn’t just theory but also had a practical element

  46. Raymond Tang –

    great course – had everything I needed to think more strategically and I liked the range of content per topic.

  47. Sharon Rose Ramcharan –

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