Stepping Up Academy
Created by Dr. Norman Chorn and Tamar Altbeker, the Stepping Up Academy is a platform to enhance your skills in order to to accelerate your development to more senior strategic roles.
Stepping Up Strategic Thinking
Our Program “Stepping Up Strategic Thinking” is a learner-led program to help you enhance your strategic thinking skills to help you:
- Develop your Strategic Thinking by learning practical skills that provide powerful insights and methods for solving complex challenges.
- Develop valuable capabilities to craft, implement & lead a strategy for your business.
- Work at your own pace with tools, examples and exercises.
- Access support for your learning & application of the concepts in your business.
Stepping Up Strategic Thinking: Learning Outcomes:
- Select & use the appropriate method to solve complex problems & challenges
- Use a powerful combination of logic &insight to achieve creative & breakthrough approaches
- Develop compelling value propositions to communicate & sell the benefit of your division and business
- Identify and communicate the best way to achieve competitive advantage in a strategy
- Produce a plan to implement your strategy with focus & impact
- Lead the strategy in a confident and compelling way
Stepping Up Strategic Thinking: Key Focus Areas:
How to think strategically in complex & uncertain environments.
How to practice the key tools & methods for creative strategic thinking.
How to craft strategy for competitive advantage.
How to develop high impact business plans.
How to develop the appropriate organisational capabilities to implement the strategy.
How to lead the strategy in a confident and compelling way.
Free download: Middle Managers
Your key to unlocking Strategy Activation
In our white paper, we share our findings on:
The disempowerment of middle managers
Where middle managers are spending their time
The types of strategy-focused work we expect from middle managers
Four ways to ‘re-engage’ your middle managers
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What people are saying about Stepping Up Strategic Thinking:
Understanding the difference between complex and complicated instantly forces you to look at the situation differently. Daily life is so busy, we’re all so time poor so this helps us quickly reframe to approach the situation differently to how we would have previously.
Territory Manager
I loved this module. And I am so pleased that we are learning how to be more strategic. I am going to seek more advice and listen to others more.
Product Manager
This was a great mini course that was thought provoking. I am focused on doing that it is important to slow down and go through the motions of a well thought out strategyThis was a great mini course that was thought provoking. I am focused on doing that it is important to slow down and go through the motions of a well thought out strategy
Communications Manager
Stepping Up Strategic Thinking Costs:
Individual sign up
Sign up and get immediate access
| Access period | Cost per user |
| 3 months per user | $99 |
Corporate Offering
Get your team together to learn the fundamentals and then work together to understand the unique context of applying your learning to your organisation
| Number of users | Access period | Add-ons: | Cost |
| 20 (max) | 24 months | At start: Kick off session
90 mins After completion: Integration session Half-day |
$9,500 |
Stepping Up Academy
This academy was created by Dr. Norman Chorn and Tamar Altbeker
Dr. Norman Chorn
Norman works as a strategy and organisation development practitioner in Australia, UK, SE ASIA, China, New Zealand and South Africa. Following a career with a multinational business, Norman founded a strategy and research firm with affiliations in UK and North America.
His work integrates the research from neuroscience with economics and strategy.
He holds and has held visiting and associate appointments with a number of leading Graduate Schools of Management, including Macquarie University (Australia), the University of Pretoria – GIBS (South Africa) and Canterbury Graduate School of Management (NZ). Prior to his consulting career, Norman held a variety of senior Marketing and General Management positions in the services and manufacturing sectors.
He has a BA (Economics and Behavioural Science) from the University of Cape Town, a Postgraduate Diploma in Management, an MBA, and PhD from the University of Witwatersrand.
Tamar Altbeker
Tamar works as a Learning and Organisational Development professional. Over the past 20 years Tamar has developed, implemented and evaluated key learning initiatives for clients across Australia and New Zealand.
Tamar’s approach recognises the importance of building learning initiatives that contribute to the achievement of an organisations’ strategy through people development.
Tamar incorporates three core principles into the design and delivery of her work:
- Most learning occurs as part of daily work
- The best learning occurs close to the point of use
- Leaders and managers have a critical role in effective learning.
Tamar has an Master’s in Social work (University of Illinois at Chicago) and holds a number of accreditations including Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training, Human Resource Development (HRD), Certified Trainer ASTD, NLP Neuro Linguistic Programming, 4-Mat Instructional Design Level 1, MBTI Accredited (Myers Briggs Type Indicator Step I), Human Synergistics LSI 1, LSI 2, GSI Accredited.