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Strategic Thinking

4.7(8,476) on LinkedIn Learning
Beginner 0.9 hours English Course Certificate
SkillsStrategic thinkingMindsetPrioritisationReflectionDecision-making

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A short LinkedIn Learning course that frames strategic thinking as a learnable habit rather than an innate gift.

Good for: Building strategic thinking as a practical habit.

Skip if: You want business-strategy frameworks or long-form depth.

In its brief run it covers establishing the right mindset, deliberately carving out time for strategic work amid daily demands, and learning from past experience — practical and encouraging, and genuinely useful for anyone who keeps meaning to think more strategically but never finds the space. It's about the habit, not business-strategy frameworks or long-form depth, so look elsewhere for those. It comes with a LinkedIn Learning subscription (usually a free trial first; free via many libraries), leaving a completion certificate on your profile as a learning record (as of 2026).

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About this course

This short course frames strategic thinking as a learnable habit rather than an innate trait: establishing the right mindset, deliberately allocating time for strategic work amid daily tasks, drawing lessons from past experience and historical patterns, applying strategic thinking to your own career, and helping a team adopt the same approach — closing with a section on how AI is changing strategic work.

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Instructor

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Dorie Clark
LinkedIn Learning instructor

Dorie Clark is a WSJ & USA Today bestselling author, a 4x Top Global Business Thinker, and a contributor to Harvard Business Review and Fast Company.

Frequently asked questions

Not exactly — it is about strategic thinking as a personal skill rather than corporate-strategy tools like Porter's Five Forces or SWOT. It focuses on how to think more strategically day to day: seeing the bigger picture, anticipating consequences, prioritising, and connecting your work to broader goals. If you want formal business-strategy frameworks, a dedicated strategy course fits better; this sharpens how you reason and plan.

Professionals at any level who want to move beyond reactive, task-by-task work toward thinking ahead and seeing the wider context — especially those stepping into or aiming for roles where planning and judgement matter. It assumes no special background, so individual contributors wanting to think more like leaders benefit as much as managers looking to sharpen their strategic instincts.

It is short — typically an hour or two — as a focused LinkedIn Learning course. That makes it an efficient way to pick up practical habits for thinking more strategically, without a large time commitment. The value comes from applying the mindset to your actual work afterward, so treat the runtime as the introduction and the practice as where it takes hold.

Not by default — it runs on LinkedIn Learning, which is subscription-based — but a free trial is common, and many public libraries and universities give members full access at no cost. Check whether a library card or an institution you belong to already provides LinkedIn Learning before paying, since that quietly unlocks this course and the whole catalogue.

Yes, you earn a LinkedIn Learning completion certificate for your profile. Treat it as a signal of professional development rather than a formal qualification — strategic thinking is demonstrated by how you actually approach problems and plan, not a badge. The real value is the mindset and habits, which show up in the quality of your decisions and foresight.
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