Training
What You'll Gain
Framework for Clarity: Access a reliable framework to analyze and simplify complex decisions.
Understanding Biases: Discover how behavioral biases and emotions can influence your decision-making process.
Navigating Risk: Explore the role of risk and uncertainty in making informed choices.
Connecting Influences: Build a seamless connection between internal and external factors that affect your decisions.
Format
1hr Lunch & Learn
Half-Day Session
Strategic Thinking: Harnessing your Best Assets to Move the Needle Forward
What does it mean to be strategic? Are these skills innate, or can they be developed through consistent effort? Being strategic involves cultivating an intuitive awareness and making opportunistic decisions based on environmental information to achieve your goals. Understanding what drives you and others is crucial for creating a framework that organizes your thoughts, fears, and objectives into a relevant game plan for an ever-changing landscape. In this workshop, we will explore key concepts such as incentives, motives, and decision-making biases to enhance your clarity around professional choices.
What You'll Gain
Align Skills with Opportunities: Discover strategies to match your skills and resources with the right opportunities.
Manage Your Environment: Gain a framework for understanding and navigating your external environment effectively.
Strategic Decision-Making: Learn methods to gather, analyze, and apply information for informed decision-making.
Communicate Your Value: Develop the ability to articulate and demonstrate your individual value proposition through your daily actions and decisions.
Format
1hr Lunch & Learn
Half-Day Session
Implementing Modern Business Strategy and Decision-Making Methods
This workshop utilizes the case study method to sharpen participants' analytical skills in addressing strategic challenges. Through a variety of interactive activities, participants will enhance both their verbal and written communication abilities. Working collaboratively in teams, they will engage in thoughtful debates to tackle common and unique problems encountered in professional settings. The primary goal of this training is to provide participants with valuable insights into the complex decision-making issues faced by professionals in a dynamic environment.
Key Learning Objectives
Strategic Framework Access: Learn tools for evaluating competitive responses, product development choices, resource allocation decisions, and more.
Organizational Influence: Explore how organizational structures and internal networks impact risk and opportunity in strategic planning.
Strategic Decision-Making: Gain a deeper understanding of the role of strategic influence in making informed choices across complex organizations.
Effective Communication: Develop greater confidence in conveying financial insights and strategic implications to stakeholders at all organizational levels.
Format
1hr Lunch & Learn (Overview)
Half-Day Session
Full-Day Session
Multi-Day Sessions
Designing the Way Forward - Business Models and Innovation Strategy
This workshop intersects three main areas of interest: (a) Business Models, (b) Innovation Strategy, and (c) Competitive Strategy. Each of these areas will be explored through case study activities, presentations, structured lectures, and reviews of various readings central to the learning objectives. This workshop provides new tools, key analytical skills, and critical building blocks for making strategic decisions within organizations of varying sizes. We will pay particular attention to the tradeoffs in pursuing certain strategies given the market structure of the industry, the resources and capabilities of the firm, and the major macro trends facing the firm and its competitors. Other topics areas include technology and innovation, decisions in research & development, the impact of network effects and standards, and the evaluation of disruptive technologies.
Key Learning Objectives
Organizational Culture & Creativity: Examine how culture and creativity contribute to effective problem-solving and idea generation.
Market Forces & Team Dynamics: Assess the influence of market forces on team-based strategic problem-solving.
Business Model Analysis: Study and apply business model analysis to inform competitive and capital investment decisions.
Innovation Assessment: Evaluate creativity as a vital channel for identifying internal and external sources of innovation.
Format
Half-Day Session
Full-Day Session
Multi-Day Sessions
Grey is the New Normal: Ethical Business Decision-Making
This workshop offers a comprehensive framework for ethical decision-making, blending theory with practical application. Designed for leaders and participants at all organizational levels, this session utilizes the case study method to navigate various ethical dilemmas. We will explore these challenges from multiple perspectives, including those of the board of directors, executive management, shareholders, regulators, suppliers, customers, competitors, employees, and communities. The primary goal of this training is to foster a deeper understanding and appreciation of the complex ethical issues faced by professionals across diverse industries.
Key Learning Objectives
Ethical Decision-Making Processes: Demonstrate and apply various ethical decision-making frameworks in a professional context.
Analytical Frameworks: Utilize analytical tools to navigate difficult choices in the workplace effectively.
Organizational Dialogue: Engage in discussions that highlight conflicts among shareholders, board members, and other key stakeholders.
Scenario Analysis Techniques: Learn techniques for ethical decision-making through scenario and situation analysis.
Format
1hr Lunch & Learn (Overview)
Half-Day Session
Full-Day Session
Hiring Dr. Brian A. Thompson
What Can You Expect?
Top-tier professionalism and communication
An exciting and thought-provoking experience
Relevant and well-connected material
An engaged audience
Testimonials
"My experience working with Brian was nothing short of superb! From start to finish, Brian was professional, responsive and very timely in meeting our deadlines."
Courtney R.
Vice President
"Brian is a very engaging speaker. He provides an approachable nature that makes him a good connection with any audience. Very dynamic!”"