Strategic-Thinking-Self-Assessment

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Use the following table to interpret your score.
104–125 Exceptional: You’re a talented strategic thinker who possesses many of the traits, behaviors, attitudes, and cognitive capacities that are necessary for thinking strategically.
78–103 Superior: You’re a highly effective strategic thinker in many areas but would benefit from refining some of your skills.
51–77 Adequate: You know and practice many of the basics of strategic thinking. However, you can increase your success by further extending your skills.
25–50 Deficient: You’ll need to work broadly on your strategic thinking skills so that you can learn how to analyze opportunities and problems from a broad perspective and understand an action’s potential impact on others.

Strategic-Thinking-Self-Assessment

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1. Question

I ask questions about what’s going on in my unit, company, industry, and wider business environment.

2. Question

I am able to adapt approaches and shift ideas when new information suggests the need to do so.

3. Question

I look for opportunities today that might generate valuable results tomorrow.

4. Question

I view challenges as opportunities.

5. Question

I welcome new ideas and opinions—even if they seem strange at first

6. Question

I take criticism well by not reacting in a defensive manner.

7. Question

I work to broaden my knowledge, experience, and skill set.

8. Question

I seek other people’s opinions.

9. Question

I anticipate how my actions will affect others around me.

10. Question

I question my own longstanding assumptions and encourage others to question theirs.

11. Question

I understand the forces influencing my group’s performance.

12. Question

I know who my company’s customers are and what they value.

13. Question

I know who my company’s competitors are and what makes us different from them.

14. Question

I stay up to date on important trends affecting my company’s industry and my group’s operations.

15. Question

I objectively analyze situations.

16. Question

I evaluate the pros, cons, and implications of different courses of action.

17. Question

I grasp abstract ideas and put the “pieces” together to form a coherent picture.

18. Question

I generate a wide variety of options, visualize new possibilities, and formulate fresh approaches.

19. Question

I see patterns across unrelated events and information.

20. Question

I can sift out irrelevant from relevant information while deciding how to solve a problem or handle a challenge.

21. Question

I can often visualize new possibilities that others have trouble seeing.

22. Question

I try to generate multiple alternative courses of action while making important decisions.

23. Question

I compare the potential short- and long-term consequences of actions I’m considering.

24. Question

I consider whether improvements I’m making to my own group’s operations may create problems for people in other parts of my organization.

25. Question

I stay focused on my objectives while handling multiple demands and competing priorities.