Do It Yourself Foresight
Over 50 Step-by-Step Instructions for Managers to Conduct Foresight Analysis and Planning at Their Own Pace
Do it on your own or with your team, for as little as €75,- per month, cancel anytime.
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Tailor Made
Create the leanest yet most relevant guidebook ever, by cherry-picking from over 50 detailed worksheets.
Half Hour Bursts
Break up a busy day with half an hour of Foresight and get things done. The worksheets will energize you!
Proven Methods
Each worksheet has proven its worth in my 20+ years of foresight practice. Designed for focused and goal-oriented action.
Does Any of This Sound Familiar?
Do you or your organization suffer from the following:
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Information overload: With the vast amount of information available in today's digital age, filtering and prioritizing relevant information can be challenging.
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Bias and interpretation: Different individuals within an organization may interpret the same information differently, leading to differing opinions on what is relevant and important.
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Cost and resource constraints: Conducting environmental scans can be time-consuming and resource-intensive, particularly for smaller organizations with limited budgets.
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Accuracy and reliability: The accuracy and reliability of the information gathered during environmental scanning can vary widely, making it difficult to make informed decisions based on the data.
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Narrow focus: Organizations may focus too narrowly on their industry or region, missing significant trends or threats in other areas that could impact their business.
- Top team not seeing the need: In some cases, the top leadership team may not recognize the importance of environmental scanning or the potential impact of external factors on the organization's success. This can result in a lack of resources or support for conducting regular scans, which may ultimately hinder the organization's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
If you ticked YES to at least one of these boxes, then you'll find relevant, practical, and doable worksheets in the Toolbox.
Here's an Example
The toolbox is filled with practical methods. For instance, the worksheets for the first step show you how you can focus search on only the information you missed. You'll find out what your blind spots are by taking the opposite of your organization's beliefs about the future.
So no endless widespread search, but focused, quick scans.
Try it Out
I offer a free trial period (one day), so you can test out the toolbox and see if it's the right fit for you and your organization. And if you have any questions or concerns, I am always available to provide support and guidance.
Why Now
Credit crises, Covid, and war in Ukraine showed us that foresight planning is essential for any organization wanting to succeed in today's rapidly changing business landscape. Especially considering the wave of AI that you can see coming!
When and Where You Want
The Foresight Toolbox is available to access anywhere with an internet connection and fits on any screen.
Introducing the D.E.C.I.D.E. Toolbox for Strategic Decisions
A toolbox filled to the brim with science-based and real-world tested tweaks, explicitly tailored to executives. If you want to be confident, decisive, and enjoy strategic decision-making without all the second-guessing, the toolbox is for you:
- Lose the uncertainty of what the future may bring so that you can enjoy the executive position you worked so hard for.
- Never again being confused or worried about a strategic decision means that you can focus on what matters: to let your organization grow and do good.
- Waking up every single morning with a clear mind so that you can be a better parent AND a better leader.
- Having a track record of accurate decisions means that you are seen as an accomplished executive.
- Poses confidence and decisiveness to be the mentor and role model for other people climbing the ladder.
This isn't like any program you've seen or done before...
I'm sure you're sitting there thinking that you've heard all this before. And you're wondering how this toolbox could be any different than every decision-making course or program out there.
Well, let me share a few things with you.
The D.E.C.I.D.E. Toolbox is like no other program out there. Not only have I designed this specifically for business owners and strategy directors, but I based it on my 24+ years of boardroom experience and my Ph.D. in managerial foresight.
Most other programs out there will leave you:
- Confused and overwhelmed: They give you either too little or too much to change, and both lead to you remaining in the exact same situation that you're in right now.
- Applying the same old, same old. Trust me; strategic decision-making does not mean endless broad sweeps of the environment, frustratingly slow discussions low on creativity and high in conformity, and the seemingly unavoidable new business models. That'd only leave you making the same mistakes and craving quick, new fixes.
- Going back to your old process soon after following their program because it simply wasn't bringing you immediate relief and made in a way that fit your busy days.
The D.E.C.I.D.E. Toolbox is about giving you laser-focused tweaks to increase decision accuracy, speed, and yield for each step of the decision-making process
Get a detailed look at what you're going to get done:
1. Discover Omissions
- Improve the quality of the information underpinning your decisions as a first step to higher accuracy.
- Identify the unknowns that you didn't even know you need or where to find and gain confidence with every fact found.
- Squeeze the last drop of knowledge from search results and minimize time spent scanning.
2. Error Check
- Reduce the odds of costly cognitive errors left unchecked and avoid losing face.
- Recognize and fix personal and group-level biases for higher accuracy.
- Check proposals for errors and get them upgraded to make better decisions quicker and easier.
3. Critique Logic
- Identify and improve hitherto implicit logic in decision deliberation to increase commitment and engagement.
- Assemble a sounding board that you can rely upon to complement your own insight all the time.
- Guide your team to debate better and become better decision-makers like you.
4. Ideate Alternatives
- Increase the odds of finding the best solution instead of optimizing the obvious one on the table.
- Find viable and goal-driven decision alternatives fast to fuel a better choice.
- Involve the right stakeholders at the right time for the right feedback and ideas.
5. Decide
- Stop watering down decisions to reach consensus, but integrate the best unique insights to a shared, highly accurate decision.
- Choose between alternatives by comparing the value they bring and the trade-off you'd make by not choosing the rest so you can explain your choice in clear language.
- Increase decision yield with quick safety checks before you begin implementing so you won't have to come back on a decision anytime soon.
6. Ethics Check
- Let the organization do more good with every decision.
- Recognize ethical dilemmas now and in the future and become a better influence.
- Use four easy questions to upgrade the ethical power of your decisions right away.
Plus Two Useful Bonuses
Get your own Ph.D. level expert on boardroom decision-making included
Bonus #1.
The dictionary of decision biases and their fixes
- Test for biases
- Pick and apply a way to fix it
- Links to the science behind it
Bonus #2.
Besides getting my written feedback on your questions, you also get a free decision check:
- One private 60-minute video call with me
- Weekly written feedback on your questions
Get a full months' access to the D.E.C.I.D.E. Toolbox and your bonuses,
👉 All for € 75,- per month
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SIX COURSES FOR THE PRICE OF ONE
A Decision-Making Course, and:
5 other courses on business intelligence scanning, reducing cognitive biases, managing conflict and make it productive, ideation, and ethics.
Use it to build out your leadership and change management competencies such as strategic awareness, self-development, problem analysis, creativity, integrity, and judgment forming.
Practice the skills that will help you for the rest of your working life: problem scoping, information management, context mapping, conflict resolution, qualified evaluation, and probabilistic reasoning.
And tweak each step of the critical decision-making process to adjust for high uncertainty, and get your team engaged at the same time.
Make your critical decisions up to 66% more accurate by:
- Section 1: Discover the business intelligence you missed the first time
- Section 2: Error-check decision assumptions and fix decision-making biases
- Section 3: Critique decision logic for slips, misunderstandings, and negative reception
- Section 4: Ideate multiple viable solutions to elevate decision effectiveness
- Section 5: Decide about the best alternative by integration or equal level trade-offs
- Section 6: Ethics-check to avoid unintended negative consequences in the longer term
You'll also get:
- 3 MONTHS ACCESS TO UPDATES AND NEW TWEAKS
- Bonus #1: The Litte dictionary of decision-making errors
- Bonus #2: Network opportunities with your peers in a private community
- Bonus #3: Live Q&A, once every two weeks
"It wasn't just a course for me. It changed my decision-making for real."
If you think:
"This is just another person selling her course" --think again.
You will learn more about strategic decision-making than you would in an expensive MBA.
You will spend thousands of euros less than you would on a consultancy firm, and you'd be in the lead yourself!
It will be the best money you ever spend because it's so affordable.
Managers who suffer from time pressure, information overwhelm, inadequate support, or risk and change anxiety now confidently make tough strategic decisions while thinking on their feet.
You don't have to do this alone anymore...
I'm here to support you every step of the way so you can finally crack the intricacies of critical decision-making and become a confident solution finder in any decision-making issue.
I'm happy to invite you to join me and hundreds of like-minded executives already graduated from the mastery if you feel that it's right for you.
Barbara
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Get a full months' access to the D.E.C.I.D.E. Toolbox and your bonuses,
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