Extending Your Mind Course.

Strategic thinking is essential at every level of an organization, whether at the corporate, business, functional or even individual level. Long-term sustainable decisions become increasingly complex the more senior the role.

These days, in our hectic corporate lives, we rush from one moment to the next, usually thinking about the next deliverable or optimizing quarterly profitability. Also, in many instances, businesses rely on artificial intelligence to produce and select options. However, if you let a machine decide and do not think strategically by yourself, you might just be very busy with working on the wrong things.

Effective strategic thinking does not necessarily require more time; it requires a different way of thinking.

This is where many leaders struggle. Strategic thinking demands the ability to take a bigger picture view, think critically and innovatively, be creative, and have a constructive perspective on the future.

Our education strongly emphasizes analytical and rational thinking. While essential, these capabilities are no longer sufficient in environments characterized by complexity, ambiguity, and rapid change. Leaders increasingly need to extend their thinking beyond pure analysis — drawing on embodied awareness, contextual perception, relationships, and intuition.

Intuition, in particular, is an underdeveloped yet critical leadership capability. It is rarely taught, yet it plays a decisive role in complex decision-making, where data alone is incomplete and truly innovative ideas seldom emerge from analytical effort alone.

In this one-day course, you will learn how to extend your thinking beyond analytical reasoning. You will explore practical methods to systematically access intuition and other mind-extending approaches and to integrate them into your leadership practice.

As a result, you will be able to make quick and confident decisions, to generate original and unexpected ideas, and intuitively understand what motivates individuals and teams to perform at their best.

Course Topics.

Critical Thinking:

• Activation, big picture thinking, proportionality

Innovation:

• Ideation, creativity, originality, extended ways of thinking

Intuition:

• Scientific research about intuition, learn to access and strengthen own intuition, tools for the targeted retrieval of intuitive knowledge, application of intuitive abilities in daily management

Complex Problem Solving:

• Tactics and problem-solving process, finding root causes and challenging assumptions, recognizing trends and patterns, anticipating risks, thinking in scenarios

Decision Making:

• Frameworks, being aware of biases and avoiding thinking errors, engaging with stakeholders

Benefits for Participants.

Participants learn how to master strategic thinking, starting with the ability to think critically and solve complex problems. This includes cultivating creativity and innovation, as well as extented ways of thinking, in particular systematically accessing the own intuition. They also learn how to make the best decisions holistically and without bias, and how to avoid logical fallacies.

Through interactive learning with exercises, in-depth explanations on why things are the way they are, and a special focus on practical tips, participants will have a truly transformative learning experience.

Participants Profile.

This course is designed for experienced professionals and leaders who operate in complex environments and are required to make high-impact decisions under conditions of uncertainty.

They recognize the limits of purely rational decision-making und seek to expand their strategic thinking beyond conventional frameworks.

This course is for leaders who want to refine how they think, decide, and act — with greater clarity, discernment, and impact.

Course Length, Location, Language.

One-day course at your premises or four virtual 75min sessions. Beyond that, you can book either group or individual coaching lessons to deepen the learning.