Strategic Problem Solving

RMIT Online’s Ready, Set, Upskill report found 43% of Australian businesses identified their critical thinking and problem solving skills as lacking or outdated. World Economic Forum has even listed critical thinking and problem solving as the top skills employers believe will grow in prominence in the next 5 years. There’s never been a more important time to level up your skill set.

Our Strategic Problem Solving course will help you to build the critical thinking and problem-solving skills that will enable you to engage at a strategic level. Over 6 weeks you will practice identifying problems and synthesising issue trees. You will use recognised strategic frameworks to complete analysis and develop solutions. Throughout the course you will build your capabilities in problem definition, communications and strategic analysis, all culminating in a credential from RMIT University when you complete the course.

Our Strategic Problem Solving course is ideal for:

• Aspiring and emerging leaders looking to build strategic capability to access more senior roles.  
• Existing team or functional leaders seeking to expand their problem solving skills in interpreting and executing a strategy to drive better outcomes and enhance their strategic agility.  

Throughout this course, you will: 

• Describe your role within the context of an organisational strategy  
• Appraise an organisation’s strategy against recognised frameworks  
• Develop a problem statement and break it down into a prioritised issues tree for an organisational issue
• Provide recommendations and associated rationale in response to the problem statement

Over 6 weeks you will practice identifying problems and synthesising issue trees. You will use recognised strategic frameworks to analyse and evaluate your organisation's strategy and approaches to solutions. 

At the end of the course, you can choose to complete an assessment to be awarded an RMIT credential, validating your skills and competency in the area. In your final project, you will present and justify your recommendations in response to your problem statement using a recognised strategic framework.