#416 Skills Sprint: Strategic Thinking
Squiggly Careers
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🗓️ 12 August 2024
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| 0:00.0 | So today we are on skill number six of the sprint, which is all about strategic thinking. |
| 0:07.4 | And we think this is a really important skill for you to focus on in your squiggly career because |
| 0:11.6 | it helps you to zoom out. It helps you to look ahead. And there is so much at work that is all about |
| 0:17.5 | like the day to day. It's very immediate. I feel like if you didn't focus on strategic thinking, |
| 0:23.6 | I feel like most things that happen pull you towards like a lot. |
| 0:27.4 | Short term. |
| 0:28.0 | Yeah, short term. |
| 0:29.2 | How do I get more done today? |
| 0:30.7 | How do I get through my emails this week? |
| 0:32.4 | Like, and I think you are naturally better at this. |
| 0:34.6 | We often talk about Sarah, even with like diaries, you're such a look |
| 0:38.0 | ahead person because you have like what we try to achieve and then how does my diary reflect it. |
| 0:43.7 | Whereas if I don't focus on this, I'm a very like day by, what does my diary say I need to do today? |
| 0:49.2 | And that means that you might kind of miss out on the bigger picture. You might head in the wrong |
| 0:53.5 | direction. You can get very busy doing without working out whether it's actually delivering means that you might kind of miss out on the bigger picture, you might head in the wrong direction, |
| 0:59.3 | you can get very busy doing without working out whether it's actually delivering what you want from your work. And so the more we can build strategic thinking as a skill, the more we can still |
| 1:04.7 | deliver on the day to day, but you make sure that you're kind of moving in the right direction |
| 1:08.7 | in terms of your impact and also your development. |
| 1:11.9 | So the framework that I'm going to share is called SCR. And this stands for situation, |
| 1:18.1 | complication and resolution. So you know if you're trying to think strategically about something, |
| 1:24.2 | a project you're working on, maybe a problem you're trying to solve, even just |
| 1:28.3 | like the job that you do. I think this is a really simple kind of three-step process just to |
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