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Date
December 01, 2026
Program Duration
2 days
Language
Arabic
Fees
14,559
In Class Training
Riyadh
About Program
The "Understanding Strategy & Strategic Thinking" Program focuses on developing leaders’ ability to deeply understand both the internal and external environment and translate this understanding into actionable strategic directions. The program helps participants analyze influencing factors, anticipate future trends, and evaluate strategic alternatives using advanced tools and methodologies. It also strengthens leaders’ ability to connect the organizational vision, priorities, and executive decisions, ensuring the effective transition from strategy formulation to implementation. The program is based on a blend of strategic concepts, case studies, collaborative thinking exercises, and scenario analysis. It further enables participants to understand organizational dynamics, identify sources of opportunities and risks, and make more proactive decisions. It is designed for senior and executive leaders, strategy and planning managers, transformation leaders, and professionals responsible for strategy development and execution. By the end of the program, participants become more capable of strategic thinking, prioritizing effectively, and translating high-level directions into plans and initiatives that deliver sustainable organizational outcomes.
Program Goals
Develop participants’ ability to analyze the internal and external environment and understand the variables affecting organizational performance.
Enabling participants to understand the organization’s internal and external environment and analyze the factors and variables that influence its performance, including economic, competitive, and organizational aspects. It also helps develop their analytical thinking skills and ability to anticipate challenges and opportunities, supporting more effective strategic decision-making and the efficient achievement of organizational goals.
Enhance strategic thinking skills and align daily decisions with long-term directions and objectives
Develop participants’ ability to think strategically through a structured approach that helps align daily decisions and practices with the organization’s long-term objectives, enhancing performance alignment with strategic directions and achieving sustainable results.
Enable participants to use strategic analysis tools to identify opportunities, risks, strengths, and weaknesses.
Provide participants with the knowledge and skills required to effectively use strategic analysis tools, enabling them to assess the surrounding environment, identify opportunities and challenges, and analyze strengths and weaknesses to support informed strategic decision-making.
Build the capability to anticipate the future and analyze potential scenarios to support more proactive decision-making.
Develop participants’ ability to anticipate future changes and analyze potential scenarios, helping them respond flexibly to challenges and opportunities while making more proactive and effective strategic decisions.
Enable participants to translate strategic directions into actionable priorities and initiatives.
Enhance participants’ ability to translate strategic directions and objectives into actionable plans and practical initiatives, contributing to the achievement of organizational goals and improving performance efficiency and follow-up.
Enhance the ability to link strategy formulation with its execution and monitor its impact at the organizational level.
Enhancing participants’ ability to link strategy formulation with the implementation phase and continuously monitor its impact, ensuring alignment between strategic objectives and actual organizational outcomes, and improving overall institutional performance effectiveness.
Developing skills in priority management and decision-making within complex and rapidly changing organizational environments.
Enabling participants to effectively prioritize and make informed decisions that align with the requirements of complex and changing organizational environments, thereby achieving higher efficiency and faster responsiveness to change.
Join us for an unforgettable journey of exceptional learning
The program is based on an applied learning methodology that integrates strategic thinking concepts with tools for strategy formulation and implementation at the organizational level. It begins by enabling participants to analyze the internal and external environment and understand the factors influencing the organization’s direction, then moves to foresight and scenario analysis to identify potential opportunities and risks. The program also focuses on using strategic analysis tools, setting priorities, evaluating alternatives, and linking day-to-day decisions to long-term objectives. It includes case studies, collaborative thinking exercises, and practical applications that help participants translate strategic directions into actionable and measurable initiatives and plans, thereby enhancing the organization’s ability to achieve its goals efficiently and sustainably.
Program Agenda
In Class Training
Strategy development methodology
Using strategic thinking in building, evaluating, and updating strategies
In Class Training
Strategic thinking tools
Frameworks and framing
Assumptions
In Class Training
Traps
Essential questions for change and reframing
Critical reflection
In Class Training
Signs of a Strategic Problem
Mechanisms for Identifying Strategic Problems
In Class Training
Challenges, risks, and assumptions of a real strategic case
Magnitude, persistence, and frequency
In Class Training
“Remain silent”
Reflections
Trainers
Acceptance Process
This stage contributes to clarifying the program requirements and facilitating communication between participants and the administration to ensure a fruitful learning experience. It also provides an opportunity to verify the required documents and organize logistical details to guarantee successful participation.
Admission Criteria
The candidate must hold a leadership or supervisory position, or be among high-potential talents nominated for future strategic roles.
The candidate must be in a leadership or supervisory position, or among high-potential talents nominated for future strategic roles.
The candidate must have a direct or indirect involvement in strategy formulation, implementation, or institutional performance monitoring.
The candidate must have a role related to strategy, whether in its formulation, implementation, or institutional performance monitoring.
The candidate must have relevant practical experience in managing strategic initiatives, projects, or work teams.
The candidate must have practical experience in managing strategic initiatives, projects, or work teams.
The candidate must have a basic understanding of the organization’s nature of work, its direction, and institutional priorities.
The candidate must have a basic understanding of the organization’s nature of work, its strategic direction, and institutional priorities.
Challenges related to strategic planning and execution.
The candidate must face challenges related to planning, prioritization, decision-making, or translating strategic directions into operational plans.
The candidate must be willing to actively participate in discussions, case studies, and collaborative thinking exercises.
The candidate must demonstrate readiness to actively participate in discussions, case studies, and collaborative thinking exercises.
The candidate is preferably an influential contributor to organizational decision-making or involved in transformation and development initiatives.
It is preferable that the candidate be among those who influence organizational decision-making or participate in transformation and development initiatives.
Application Process: Your Journey Starts Here
The admissions team will carefully review all elements of your application. The selection process will take up to eight weeks from the date of submission of a completed application.
Step 1
Online application and video interview
Step 2
Pre-selection and decision
Step 3
Interview with acceptance
Step 4
Admission Committee
Step 5
Final decision
Investing In Your Future
The program represents an investment in developing leaders capable of anticipating future shifts, understanding the factors influencing the organization, and making more proactive strategic decisions. By enhancing strategic thinking and foresight skills, participants become better equipped to navigate complex and changing environments and translate long-term directions into practical priorities that support sustainable performance and growth.
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