Strategic leadership involves using your problem-solving skills and strategic vision to help team members achieve organizational goals. To drive organizational success, strategic leaders focus on understanding the situation, considering different options, and making decisions that benefit team members.

By utilizing strategic leadership, you can develop a vision for the organization that enables it to adapt to economic and industry trends. Strategic leaders must then put this vision into action through various strategic leadership tactics – such as mapping out appropriate stages – to help employees reach their goals. This vision can then be used to motivate employees, encouraging productivity and fostering a sense of unity to implement change within the organization.

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

• Define what strategic leadership looks like in practice
• Identify the characteristics of strategic leaders and how those qualities optimize organizational structure
• Apply strategic leadership tactics, such as creating room for failure and reflecting on your mistakes

Why take this course?

By utilizing strategic leadership, you can understand the organization’s mission and create a strategy focused on achieving this mission. You can also advocate for and engage with employees. Suitable for business leaders, team leaders, and managers, this course will help you define what strategic leadership looks like in practice. It’ll teach you how to identify the characteristics of strategic leaders and how those qualities optimize organizational structure. You’ll also learn how to apply strategic-leadership tactics, such as creating room for failure and reflecting on your mistakes.

10 mins | SCORM | Takeaway Tasks