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Every CSCHOOL program is a personalised engagement between you and the instructor so that you can confidently get the result that you want. 

Choosing what to do—and what not to do—is the definition of strategy. Creativity is perceiving and solving a unique problem. In this course, you’ll create and take action on a strategy for your business breakthrough.  You’ll work one-on-one with us and follow steps that are possibility-focused. By combining creativity and strategy, you will both analyse your business as it is and imagine how it could be.

Course Outcomes

• Identify strategic opportunities in your business, frame it as a question, and create possibilities to solve it.

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• Think through multiple scenarios to make the possibility a winning strategy.

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• Apply the holistic value of 12 different principles to ensure that your plan is fully covered.

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• Set yourself and your team up to be able to take clear action on the strategic choices you make.

Course Themes

Session 1: Introduction

Learn the process that will ground you into the breakthrough principles

2 VIDEO LESSONS

Making Breakthrough Choices

12 Principles of Designing a Breakthrough Strategy

1 ASSIGNMENT

Identify the ideal opportunity you would like to explore and exploit—Outline the current approach for your organisation, describe the strategy problem that you’re facing, and craft a “How might we” question to articulate the problem.

4 ONE-ON-ONE DISCUSSIONS

What are your goals, your current realities, your greatest potential, and your biggest obstacles?

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The strengths and the shortcomings of your current business strategy and how it stacks up against a breakthrough possibility?

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Setting the stage for a breakthrough - perceiving and defining the problem.

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Articulating the potential or quantifying the big breakthrough idea.

Session 2: Creative Strategic Potential

From 'what is' to 'what can be'

1 VIDEO LESSON

Being a Possibility Creator

1 ASSIGNMENT

Indulge in free play and think of possibilities you can imagine for your organisation. Then apply the structure of session one to answer the first three questions in the breakthrough template.

4 ONE-ON-ONE DISCUSSIONS

What can you know that others don't? Co-create with us and define the objective, offensive, and mass value strategies?

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How will this translate into a continuous advantage for your business? ​Co-create with us the intelligent picture.

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What execution capability needs to be built to be able to leverage on the breakthroughs we have identified?​

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How do we capitalise on dimensions of creative agility to drive economic outcomes for the organisation?

Session 3: Make a Choice. Commit to Success

Make sense of what you've accomplished and guide your decisions.

2 VIDEO LESSONS

Your Belief System

Understanding the Role of your Self Esteem

1 ASSIGNMENT

Decide—Look back across the entire strategy process and take stock of some of the big takeaways from the course, and think about how will you continue to practice strategy after the course is complete.

3 ONE-ON-ONE DISCUSSIONS

What will be the biggest challenges for you going forward and how can you create mental resilience to overcome them?

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How has your understanding of possibilities changed as a result of this course. How will you use it?​

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How will you enrol the people critical to you to help you execute your choices?​

Chetan Walia

Chetan has led strategy processes at large public and private sector organisations around the world. He advises senior leaders at several Fortune 500 companies and teaches leadership and innovation at the University of Bradford. He is the researcher and author of the creative-strategic perspective.

Rolly Srivastava

Rolly is a trusted strategy advisor who's worked with CEOs of leading companies. She is a certified coach and change enabler. She helps leaders to realise their creative potential and bring value to new and emerging markets.