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How Strategic Is Your Thinking?
Strategic and critical thinking are core leadership capabilities — yet most leaders operate in constant urgency, making decisions on instinct rather than intention.
This self-assessment helps you uncover how effectively you:
- pause before reacting
- assess context before jumping into solutions
- separate symptoms from root causes
- challenge assumptions (yours and others’)
- gather diverse perspectives
- validate decisions with data and evidence
- balance short-term pressures with long-term priorities
- anticipate future challenges
- reflect on decisions to improve your effectiveness
Strategic & Critical Thinking
Skills Self-Assessment
A practical tool for leaders who want to make better decisions, think more clearly, and shift out of reactive problem-solving.
Strategic Thinking Is the Gap That Separates Busy Leaders from Effective Ones
Reactive leadership solves today’s problems.
Strategic leadership shapes tomorrow’s results.
Strengthening your strategic and critical thinking helps you:
- make better decisions under pressure
- solve the real problem, not the loudest symptom
- step out of firefighting mode
- anticipate challenges instead of reacting to them
- build a smarter, more capable team
- create a culture of curiosity, clarity, and continuous improvement
Your thinking becomes the ceiling (or the catalyst) for your team’s performance.
Based on real behaviours, and grounded in human-centred leadership principles, this self-assessment gives you:
Behaviour-Based Questions
Covering Mindset, Analysis, Strategy, Foresight, and Reflection — the core building blocks of strategic leadership.
Your Leadership Thinking Profile
Your score places you into one of four profiles — from Reactive Problem-Solver to Strategic Leader — with insights into how you currently think and decide.
Practical Recommendations
Including simple habits like pausing before acting, reviewing decisions, testing assumptions, building feedback loops, and strengthening your team’s critical thinking.
Get clarity on your thinking strengths.
Identify your blind spots.
Lead with more intention, foresight, and confidence.
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