How To Think Like A Futurist
And Why You Would Want To
We are all natural futurists, but as with anything worthwhile, we can become better if we put some attention and focus on developing this professional development skill.
Think Like a Futurist Series
This series starts with a free webinar. After that, there are 4 workshops that will build and develop futures thinking skills in you and your team. Any of the workshops make be taken alone, or you can attend all of them, or catch up missed workshops on the next season of events.
These workshops may also be presented in-house for you and your team for maximum impact. Please request a quotation.
How To Think Like a Futurist
And why you would Want to
We cannot delegate our critical thinking to others. By empowering ourselves with a futures thinking mindset and tools we can make better decisions, enhance our clarity of thought, and unlock innovative approaches to problem-solving.
We are all natural futurists, but as with anything worthwhile, we can become better if we put some attention and focus on developing this professional development skill.
In this webinar we will explore:
- What is futures thinking?
- How can you think like a futurist?
- 1 model and 3 tools to start thinking like a futurist today
- 3 tips to develop your futures thinking ability
This webinar will help you consider:
- Your critical thinking skills
- Your creativity, curiosity and imagination
- Your collaborative and inter-personal skills
- Your leadership insights
- Your professional development skills
- Your futures literacy
Develop Your Own Futurist Skills
Unpack your Futurist Toolkit. Workshop #1
- Is it a fad? A trend? An anomaly? (Trend spotting)
- If the world looked like this, then would I still be relevant? (Scenario Planning)
- How do these unrelated issues cause a potential crisis point? (Axes of Uncertainty)
- Is there anything outside my echo chamber? (Scanning)
- Is this inevitable or can I decide where to go in the future? (Futures Cone)
Unlock your Futurist Mindset
See Futures Thinking in action. Workshop #2
Our plans and hopes for the future are useless unless we have the mindset to approach the volatility and ambiguity of the unknown.
This workshop gives us practical tools and insights to understand our own thinking as well as nurture useful frames of reference for our teams and our clients.
In this 3 hour workshop we will explore:
- The Philosophy, Psychology and Practicality Model
- Design and Systems Thinking
- Causal Layered Analysis
- Comparative reading and challenging mindsets
Implement Futures Thinking
Crafting more preferred futures. Workshop #3
Our imaginations allow us to think of all the terrible, unpleasant things that may happen in an unknown future. Futures Thinking tools allow us to apply our imaginations to more valuable scenarios where we can design the future we would prefer, and to sketch out practical steps to achieve that vision.
This workshop challenges our unexamined assumptions and provides practical approaches to the future.
In this 3 hour workshop we will explore:
- Key Concepts and Futures Literacy
- The Futures Wheel
- 3 Horizons Model
- Practical Innovation
- Futures Strategy
Become a Futurist Change Agent
From Foresight to Action. Workshop #4
The power of futures thinking and strategic foresight, is to take the plans that have been developed and put them into action. Implementing futures thinking concepts allows us to literally craft a more preferred future.
But crafting a more preferred future is not a solo exercise. We need to understand how to communicate these ideals and move a team, a company or a client into a space where risks are mitigated and opportunity abound.
In this 3 hour workshop we will explore:
- Vision Casting
- Power of Narrative
- Back Casting
- Road Mapping
- Communicating and reporting
Who are these skills for?
- Professionals
- Business Owners
- Leaders
- Innovators
- Strategists
- Creators
- Explorers
- Consultants
- People reinventing themselves
- Life Long Learners
What you Will Receive
- Access to a recording of the workshop for a limited time afterwards
- A workbook with explanations, examples and additional exercises
- A set of templates for you to use with your own teams
Fee
R1,250 per delegate for the public workshops.
Discounts are available for:
- 3 or more delegates from the same company
- For paying members of the Futures Alchemy Collaborative on Patreon
- Booking for all 4 workshops in the “Think Like a Futurist” workshops.
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