This document discusses strategy from several perspectives: 1) It provides various definitions of strategy, describing it as adaptable, advantageous, anticipatory, and more. 2) It notes that strategy requires balancing short-term results with long-term opportunities and issues. 3) It encourages developing strategic thinking in everyday activities like identifying growth areas, reinforcing strengths, and creating action plans. 4) It distinguishes strategy, which focuses on the future, from tactics, which address immediate needs.

1. ® WHAT IS STRATEGY?
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2. Various Definitions of Strategy

3. Here are a Handful of Synonyms
Adaptable Develop Prepared
Advantage Devious Pro-active
Anticipate Forward-thinking Prudent
Artful Foresight Risk
Assumptions Innovative Ruthless
Calculating Insightful Scheming
Cautious Inventive Secretive
Change Lucky Skillful
Clairvoyant Manipulative Sly
Clever Mysterious Smart
Competitive Nimble Speculative
Crafty Opportunistic Success
Creative Options Tricky
Cunning Plotting Unethical
Deceitful Political Visionary
Deceptive Position
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4. Strategy is a Balancing Act
 Delivering business results and meeting today’s
expectations.
 Acting on future opportunities, issues, and
concerns that will affect tomorrow’s results.
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5. Become More Strategic Every Day
 Identify development and growth
opportunities
 Reinforce strengths
 Build greater self-awareness
 Identify choices and options to apply
 Create action plans and strategies for
sustainability
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6. What’s the Difference?
Strategy Tactics
Future (Longer-Term) Now (In the Moment)
Preparing & Planning Doing Activities
A Journey A Trip
Broad Perspective Narrow Perspective
A Purpose A Task
Anticipation Reaction
Risk Caution
Important Urgent
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7. Applied Strategic Thinking
Workshop Formats and Details
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8. Applied Strategic Thinking Workshop
 Strategy at a personal or team level as
Available opposed to high-level, corporate
Formats: strategy.
• 1-Day  Practical, straightforward, and beneficial
• 2-Day for individuals working in any position in
• 3-Day any organization.
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Experience  Informal; applied strategic thinking is a
fluid, everyday task, not a preconceived,
annual ritual.
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9. Applied Strategic Thinking Workshop
 Ongoing; a process that can unfold and
Available emerge at any time.
Formats:
 Intentional; emerges from the grass roots
• Virtual of the organization deliberately, not
• Foreign accidentally.
Language
Capability  Linked and aligned with “high-level”
strategy, but not dependent upon it.
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10. About CMOE’s AST Workshops
 Based on extensive and ongoing research.
 Available in a live classroom format, as well as virtual
or web-based.
 Feature tools, hardbound books, practice
opportunities, and simulations.
 Led by an experienced CMOE facilitator.
 Train-the-Trainer services are available.
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11. Why Choose CMOE?
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12. About CMOE
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 We employ the world’s greatest instructional
designers, facilitators, and consultants.
 We work hard for our clients.
 We are innovative.
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