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Strategic Problem Solving

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Level up your skills and qualifications as a digital native

Teaming up with the best in industry, our Future Skills courses lean into the future of work to deliver the best in structured, mentor-supported, 100% online education.

Strategic problem solving plays a critical role in enabling a business and its employees to stay agile and adapt to a shift in business conditions. Accelerate your career by learning the principles, capabilities, and frameworks of strategic problem solving alongside industry experts.

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.

Course Overview

Learn more about our Strategic Problem Solving course in the video below.

Transcript

I think the importance of strategic problem solving in the workforce is that it allows us to break down a problem into its many components to be to then unpack it. It helps you challenge the status quo, it helps you trying to understand you know for what you're solving for is that actually the right thing and is it going to align the organizational priorities.

You have to be able to solve problems to find problems and work work through those kinds of processes it's just completely critical for most roles these days. Soft skills will continue to be in demand over the next five years as they complement a lot of the technical skills that are arising due to technology disruptions. It's dealing with people it's being you know resilient in your in your role, it's understanding how to influence people how to look at problems and solve them in an effective way.

The soft skills in terms of how you communicate how you interact with stakeholders, how you help them solve problems is going to be so key in terms of standing out and help to actually solve for those problems. Having an organization like rmit put together a really Sharps at online courses on these topics is a good way of accelerating your understanding of how to look at problems solve them pull the pieces and do all those kinds of things

Career Outlook

Take a closer look at what opportunities in the Strategic Problem Solving field.

Job satisfaction

Strategic Problem Solving have a job satisfaction of 4.0/5

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

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Industry growth

10%

Predicted job growth in 5 years

Salary expectations

The typical salary for a Strategic Problem Solving role is

$130k

SEEK, 2024

Job opportunities

In Australia, there are

2900+

jobs available

SEEK, 2024

Get RMIT credentialed

After completing an RMIT Future Skills course, you will earn an RMIT credential which can be validated, recognised and shared on social media platforms.

Course Structure

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Learn with industry experts

Our subject matter experts on this course include people like Richard Lipohar. Richard is a subject matter expert with a background in management consulting, as well as holding a senior management role at an ASX200 company. His professional experience has provided him with a solid foundation in problem-solving and practical business insights. And with a Bachelor of Commerce and a Masters of International Business, Richard had gained valuable experience in addressing various business challenges across many different environments.

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Strategic Problem Solving

Level up your skills and qualifications as a digital native

Course Overview

Career Outlook

Get RMIT credentialed

Course Structure

Module 1: Your organisation and you

Module 2: Identifying and defining problems

Module 3: Prioritising issues

Module 4: Analysing Issues

Module 5: Developing next steps

Module 6: What's next?