Need to Advance your futures thinking skills?
We can help you acquire a futures thinking mindset by showing you how to use futures thinking tools and scenario planning, how to scan your environment and how to engender strategic foresight. This will stand you in good stead when you need to make important strategic decisions. To offer you flexibility, we offer the following:
Short presentations
A presentation of 40 to 60 minutes on a futures thinking topic.
Short training courses
The workshop topics below can be tailored for your organisation and presented in-house to groups of up to 25 delegates.
Futures Thinking Tools and Techniques
Duration: 2 Days
This workshop will assist you to:
- Understand the principles of thinking about the future
- Understand futures thinking methods and techniques
- Identify trends and drivers of change
- Analyse trends and drivers of change
- Evaluate a system
- Understand the cognitive strategies and tenets of systems thinking
- Appraise system evolution
- Consider future system evolution and possible future states of a system
Scenario Planning
Duration: 1.5 Days
This workshop will assist you to:
- Understand the role of scenario planning in the strategic management process
- Understand the difference between scenario planning, forecasting and trend analysis
- Practise and apply the tools and techniques needed to develop different scenarios
- Execute the scenario planning process successfully
Scanning
Duration: 1.5 Days
This workshop will assist you to:
- Understand what environmental scanning is
- Identify why it is important to scan the environment
- Understand how it fits into strategic and operational management
- Design and apply a scan approach for their organisation, based on the current business model
Engendering Foresight
Duration: 1.5 Days
This workshop will assist you to:
- Appreciate the benefits of an engendered foresight culture for an organisation
- Understand how and where to fit foresight responsibilities into an organisational structure
- Assess the foresight status of their own organisation
- Design an approach that aims to engender foresight into the culture of their own organisation
