"Didn't See That Coming"  

Oversight Happens More Often Than You'd Think (and Want)

Black swans, boiled frogs, grey rhinos, dragon kings, butterfly effects—you know, all those things we did not see coming or discarded as irrelevant and not urgent. Oops.

Examples? Goodness, how many examples do you need? take a look:

Suffering From a Foresight Deficit

Is your organization stuck in the present and unable to prepare for the changes you see emerging? It likely suffers from a foresight deficit. The Training helps solve that.

You probably already discovered that your organization's foresight scanning and its assessments need more depth, but you don’t know how to fix this. Let's check if The Training is for you:

• Does your organization prioritize short-term gains and immediate results over long-term planning and sustainability?
• Is your organization's vision statement hidden in a drawer, ignored, outdated, or too vague to be a decision factor?
• Are there problems with the collection, analysis, and use of data to inform decision-making?
• Does your team resist change or the adoption of new technologies or strategies?
• Does a strategic review take weeks, months maybe, without delivering new insights?

In short: is it high time to lengthen the organization's view to include longer horizons in its decisions?

More than one "Yes"?

Read on or go straight to the training's curriculum.

 About This Training

Let's Get Together and Fix It

Scanning for trends and developments, interpreting them, and turning them into a course of action has taken you a lot of time—perhaps even money. Would be nice to streamline the process and make its output robust, right?

Good news: developing a foresight monitor is easier than you think.

Let me explain: 👇👇👇

The Training: Building Your Foresight Muscles 

OBJECTIVES: DESIGN & IMPLEMENT FORESIGHT WORKFLOW

During the training, we design your foresight process together. Step by step. I have only one objective: to get foresight information flowing into your organization and nourishing your decision process.

I'll be honest with you. The training isn't always fun.

Compare it to bootcamp: you know it's good for you, but fun is something else.

Why Do the Training Anyway?

ALTERNATIVES: NONE THAT WORK

Because every organization has the cost of strategic indecision and bad decisions. Yours too.

Even having had outside help is no guarantee for success (sorry).

Because:

• Most trendwatchers are busy with current trends, not future impacts.
• Popular futurists rely on anecdotal evidence (n=1) and a lot of belief in their vision, but forget that they cannot predict (nobody can).
• And the strategy consultants who do pay attention to future impacts, don't know what's relevant and urgent for your specific niche.

After The Training, you do know where to get foresight information and what to do with it for better decisions.

In eight weeks:

• You'll learn how to think forward to gain insight into the strategic dilemmas now just beyond your grasp.
• You'll design your organization's process for a steady flow of searchable insights to update and apply when you need it.

At a Glance

  What You'll Learn

• How to design a foresight workflow
• How to create an environment that drives innovation
• Analyzing future opportunities to formulate strategy
• Effective communication with stakeholders - the board, the team, the business partners

     Syllabus

• The Training takes place twice a year: in October-November, and in February-March.
• Each Training consists of 3 1.5-hour webinars, learn at your own pace, peer discussion groups, and direct access to me during office hours (once every two weeks).
• After completion of The Training, you'll get a voucher for a free 1-hour consult for the questions that arise when you start implementing it. The voucher is valid for 6 months after training completion.
• The minimum number of participants is 12, and the maximum is 30.

The Training Comes With:

✓ With a Ready-Made Strategy Room

The Training has a resource section filled to the brim with background materials, links to foresight sources, templates, and how-tos. Everything you need to hit the ground running.

✓ All the Materials You Need

Every step we take together is done online, using tools like whiteboarding, voting, webinars, surveys and polls, and hot-seat coaching. The license fee for these tools is included for the duration of the program. So: if you have Teams, you're good to go.

✓ A Certificate of Completion

Your certificate of completion is a concrete symbol of your new foresight expertise. It also gives you the right to one free one-hour consultation call to book within six months of completion. Use that hour to dot the i-s and cross the t-s!