Executive Training.
The world is changing rapidly. Your organization needs to respond to present day challenges while also anticipating and imagining unexpected changes and new paths forward.
Longer-term planning in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment requires new leadership competencies, designed to anticipate and plan for possible disruptions that may unfold over the next 10, 20 or 30 years. Futures and foresight literacy presents an opportunity to enable responsiveness to potential future situations and contexts.
While futures literacy is not traditionally a core competency for leadership, a recent study that interviewed over 140 CEOs from around the world identified that futurist is one of most critical skills leaders must master.
About the program.
Who is this for?
This program is designed to support leadership teams in developing their futures literacy. Along with learning how to make future-focused decisions, you will have an opportunity to apply foresight tools to organization-specific initiatives using resources that are created and tailored to your organization and sector.
What to expect?
By the end of the program, you will:
Develop critical skills to make future-focused decisions by testing present day assumptions and understanding future uncertainty and complexity of changes;
Exercise your creativity to imagine the range of possible futures on the horizon; and,
Create strategic foresight assets that you and your team can apply to planning and decision-making processes going forward.
What are the options available?
Creative Futures is happy to create a customized program for your team and organization. Here are a few different modules that you may want to consider:
Introduction to strategic foresight - This module provides an overview of futures thinking and an exploration of present day assumptions that influence decision making.
Emerging changes and implications - This module will introduce participants to a foundational futures thinking tool - horizon scanning - which will teach participants how to identify emerging changes. Participants will review selected emerging changes and learn how to identify a range of possible implications.
Future scenarios - This module will introduce participants to future scenarios, by creating three to four possible futures and discussing how to use the scenarios.
Application of strategic foresight to everyday decision making - This module will use emerging changes and / or future scenarios to identify opportunities for your organization, to test and prioritize current initiatives, and how to support future-focused decision making.
All of these sessions can be delivered virtually and/or in-person, depending on the location and preferences of the team.
Please contact us to discuss options that might be best suited for your organization. We will create a customized program and schedule for you and your team.