Strategic Direction Setting
education and trainingprofessional workproject environments
What Is Strategic Direction Setting?
Apply strategic direction setting deliberately to the situations in which that capability is relevant, with attention to the decisions, behaviours, or outputs that strategic direction setting directly affects.
Why Does Strategic Direction Setting Matter?
Strategic Direction Setting matters when the outcome depends on doing more than the broad task itself; the specific capability described by strategic direction setting can determine how accurately, clearly, efficiently, or appropriately the work is carried out.
What Does It Look Like?
Someone applying strategic direction setting may:
- •uses strategic direction setting deliberately rather than treating it as an automatic habit
- •checks the part of the result most affected by strategic direction setting
- •adjusts the approach when the situation changes what strategic direction setting requires
How to Develop Strategic Direction Setting
You can develop it by:
- •choose a real task where strategic direction setting is clearly involved and define the result you want to improve
- •observe how a more experienced person handles strategic direction setting and record the specific decisions they make
- •review one completed task and identify where stronger strategic direction setting would have changed the result
Where Can Strategic Direction Setting Be Useful?
Strategic Direction Setting can be useful in areas such as:
education and trainingprofessional workproject environments
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