Employers place high value on strategic thinking skills in new graduates. This activity is important because strategic thinking happens at every single level of the organization and will assuredly be an unwritten part of the description of any job that you do. The goal of this exercise is to test your knowledge of the four key activities for developing your ability to think strategically. Read the descriptions of someone either doing a good job, or a poor job at one of the activities for developing strategic thinking Then, select the key activity for developing strategic thinking that its description best represents. 1. Rex is participating in a job rotation program at his new workplace which gives him the chance to get to know as many aspects of the company as possible.
2. Tripp sets aside time for work-related reflection each week. He usually spends the time organizing his to-do list for the upcoming week
3. Paz has been an attorney for ten years and decides she can stop attending annual continuing education seminars now that she knows everything there is to know about her job.
4. Melia often purposefully plays the devil's advocate during work meetings because she thinks it's important to help her team avoid potentially costly decisions.
5. Rosalie blocks out an hour of her work day each Friday to think quietly about what transpired that week at vork.
6. Dahlia is a recent college graduate at her first architectural job. She's just getting started financially and decides not to join her field's major professional association because she thinks it's not worth the annual fee.
7. Idris makes a commitment to have coffee with one person he doesn't know well at his organization each week so that he can learn about their history with the company
8. When Samir hears an idea that he strongly opposes during a department meeting, he usually keeps quiet about it. He doesn't want to upset the positive atmosphere among his colleagues.