Employers place high value on strategic thinking skills in new graduates. This activity is important because strategic thinking happens at every single level of the organization and will assuredly be an unwritten part of the description of any job that you do. The goal of this exercise is to test your knowledge of the four key activities for developing your ability to think strategically.

Read the descriptions of following activities for developing strategic thinking. Then, write the key activity for developing strategic thinking that its description best represents.

a. Rex is participating in a job rotation program at his new workplace which gives him the chance to get to know as many aspects of the company as possible.
b Tripp sets aside time for work-related reflection each week. He usually spends the time organizing his to-do list for the upcoming week.
c. Paz has been an attorney for ten years and decides she can stop attending annual continuing education seminars now that she knows everything there is to know about her job.
d. Melia often purposefully plays the devil's advocate during work meetings because she thinks it's important to help her team avoid potentially costly decisions.

1. Understand the business: John's thought processes are geared towards understanding the business for the purpose of making valuable contribution as one of its employees

2. Set aside time to reflect :

3. Broaden. your task and functional knowledge.

4 Engage in lateral thinking.

5) Set aside time to reflect.

6) Broaden. your task and functional knowledge.

7) engage in lateral thinking.

8) Set aside time to reflect