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Strategy Templates & Worksheets

Use these templates and worksheets to apply the frameworks from each chapter to your own strategic challenges. Copy the structure into a notebook, whiteboard, or digital document, and work through the questions systematically.

Chapter 1: Strategic Mindset Self-Assessment

Instructions: Rate yourself on each characteristic (1 = low, 5 = high). Reflect on where you want to grow.

Characteristic Rating (1-5) Notes / Evidence
Long-term orientation
Holistic perspective
Curiosity
Comfort with ambiguity
Creativity
Decisiveness

Reflection: What is one habit I could practice to strengthen my strategic mindset this month?

_____________________________________________________________________________

Chapter 2: Systems Thinking Map

Instructions: Identify a complex challenge. Map the key elements and their interconnections. Identify feedback loops and delays.

Challenge: ________________________________________________________________

Key Elements:

  • _______________
  • _______________
  • _______________
  • _______________

Reinforcing Loops (amplify change):

  • _______________ → _______________ → _______________
  • _______________ → _______________ → _______________

Balancing Loops (resist change):

  • _______________ → _______________ → _______________
  • _______________ → _______________ → _______________

Delays: Where is there a time lag between cause and effect?

_____________________________________________________________________________

Chapter 3: SWOT Analysis Template

Instructions: Analyze your organization, team, or project using the SWOT framework.

SWOT Analysis
STRENGTHS (Internal)

- _______________
- _______________
- _______________
- _______________
 WEAKNESSES (Internal)

- _______________
- _______________
- _______________
- _______________
OPPORTUNITIES (External)

- _______________
- _______________
- _______________
- _______________
 THREATS (External)

- _______________
- _______________
- _______________
- _______________

Key Insights: What strengths can you leverage to seize opportunities? What weaknesses make you vulnerable to threats?

_____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

Chapter 3: PESTLE Analysis Template

Instructions: Identify macro-environmental trends affecting your organization.

Factor Key Trends Potential Impact
Political
Economic
Social
Technological
Legal
Environmental

Chapter 4: Four Actions Framework (Blue Ocean Strategy)

Instructions: For your industry or market, ask these four questions to identify opportunities for value innovation.

ELIMINATE
Which factors that the industry takes for granted should be eliminated?		 RAISE
Which factors should be raised well above industry standard?
REDUCE
Which factors should be reduced below industry standard?		 CREATE
Which factors should be created that the industry has never offered?

Chapter 5: Scenario Planning Template

Instructions: Use this template to develop 2-4 scenarios for a key strategic question.

Focal Question: ________________________________________________________________

Key Drivers (most important forces shaping the future):

  1. _______________
  2. _______________
  3. _______________
  4. _______________

Critical Uncertainties (drivers that are both highly important and highly uncertain):

  1. _______________
  2. _______________

Scenario Matrix: Choose two critical uncertainties to create a 2x2 matrix. Describe each quadrant as a scenario.

Uncertainty 1: _______________
Scenario A:
When Uncertainty 2 is high...

 Scenario B:
When Uncertainty 2 is low...
Scenario C:
When Uncertainty 2 is high...

 Scenario D:
When Uncertainty 2 is low...
Uncertainty 2: _______________

Implications for Strategy: How would your current strategy fare in each scenario? What new options emerge?

_____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

Chapter 6: Reframing Worksheet

Instructions: Use this worksheet to reframe a complex problem and generate new solution directions.

Initial Problem Statement: ________________________________________________________________

Assumptions (list what you're taking for granted):

  1. _______________
  2. _______________
  3. _______________

Challenge Each Assumption: "What if the opposite were true?"

  • Assumption 1 opposite: _______________ → New possibility: _______________
  • Assumption 2 opposite: _______________ → New possibility: _______________
  • Assumption 3 opposite: _______________ → New possibility: _______________

New "How Might We...?" Questions:

  1. How might we _______________?
  2. How might we _______________?
  3. How might we _______________?

Chapter 8: OKR Setting Template

Instructions: Use this template to set Objectives and Key Results for your team or initiative.

Objective (Qualitative, Inspiring) Key Results (Quantitative, Measurable)

Objective 1:
____________________


 KR 1: ____________________
KR 2: ____________________
KR 3: ____________________

Objective 2:
____________________


 KR 1: ____________________
KR 2: ____________________
KR 3: ____________________

Chapter 10: Balanced Scorecard Template

Instructions: Develop strategic measures across four perspectives.

Perspective Strategic Objective Measure (KPI) Target
Financial
Customer
Internal Processes
Learning & Growth

Chapter 11: Strategic Question Generator

Instructions: Use these prompts to generate strategic questions for your next meeting or reflection.

  • Challenge assumptions: "What are we assuming about [X] that, if false, would change our strategy?"
  • Explore the future: "What would our industry look like in 5 years if [trend] accelerates?"
  • Inversion: "What would guarantee failure in our strategy?"
  • Second-order thinking: "What are the likely consequences of this decision, and then what after that?"
  • Expand the frame: "What is this problem a part of?"
  • Multiple perspectives: "How would a customer/competitor/employee/outsider see this?"
  • Blind spots: "What are we not seeing? What question are we avoiding?"

Your strategic question for today: ___________________________________________________

Chapter 13: Personal Development Plan for Strategic Thinking

Instructions: Create a 12-month plan to develop your strategic capabilities.

Vision: What kind of strategist do I want to become? _____________________________________

Development Area Specific Goals Learning Activities Timeline
Reading & Knowledge
Skill Practice
Network & Mentors
Reflection Practice

Accountability partner: ______________________________________________________________

Review dates: _____________________________________________________________________

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