Red Team Thinking
Battle Test Your Ideas with Red Team Thinking
Effective leaders consistently challenge their strategies and actively look for ways to make them even more sound. Here’s such a chance to adopt well-proven methods and processes designed precisely to identify weak points and bring out the best ideas.
The methodology we recommend and facilitate is called Red Team Thinking.
Originally developed by the U.S. military to address multiple and unconventional threats, Red Team Thinking can yield powerful solutions through proven techniques and methods of analysis.
Now you can move forward with confidence, knowing you’ve uncovered and addressed your assumptions, thoroughly explored the alternatives, and considered failure points all while getting original contributions from everyone on the team. Red Team Thinking is the way to ensure your decisions are strong and ready for execution.
Red Team Thinking will help you to increase your likelihood of success!
One Workshop that Can Change Your Strategic Thinking
Discover how cognitive biases and organizational dysfunction subvert leaders’ decision making.
It explains why great managers can make bad calls, teams can arrive at wrong conclusions, and why status quo can lead a company down the wrong path. Understanding this is the first step toward overcoming it.
The Red Team Thinking Workshop, conducted by Bay Area Executive Coach, leads participants in the core elements of Red Team Thinking through a series of high-impact thinking exercises:
Exercise 1: Six Strategic Questions
In this core exercise, the team will answer six very important questions to get to the heart of a strategy’s appropriateness and impact.
Exercise 2: Pre-Mortem Analysis
Pre-mortem analysis pushes teams to imagine a project has failed spectacularly, then work to figure out why. This method breaks groupthink and identifies hidden risks, allowing teams to strengthen plans significantly. The analysis includes:
Exercise 3: Assumptions Challenge
In a world of constant change, making assumptions is inherently risky. The reality is that things are often not as they seem and the team may be missing critical facts due to a potentially flawed perspective. This exercise is designed to mitigate the consequences of inaccurate assumptions that are currently baked into the strategy.
With each of these exercises, we’ll deploy a method that brings out each team member’s original thoughts so you get genuine and complete contributions.
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Strategic planning is the first step towards improvement of your organization’s results. Take it a step further by battle testing your ideas. By taking your plans through the gauntlet of these Red Team Thinking exercises, you’ll feel much more confident about the success potential of your strategies.
Contact us today to learn more about our Red Team Thinking Workshop.
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