SCENARIO PLANNING: CREATE A SHARED FUTURE
 
Today’s rate of change significantly increases the risk that your strategies for the future will be wrong. Businesses are merging and splitting, technology is arriving and disappearing, and most teams have no idea how to deal with it all.

This course is currently offered as a 1-day workshop.  Ask about our customization options.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Individuals attending this session are involved in one or more of the following areas:

  • Planning and preparing for the future.
  • Creating a Shared Vision of the future.
  • Evaluating choices today against the future plan.
  • Anticipating challenges before they hit.
WHAT THE SESSION PROVIDES
Scenario Planning is a process that gets your leaders to look at multiple futures and create action plans to deal with whatever occurs.  Scenario Planning, popularized by the book The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge is a technique that facilitates the creation of a compelling Shared Vision while acknowledging that you may get off course.  Knowing whether you are going where you want to go, but also identifying other places you might end up and what you will do about that is a powerful competitive advantage for your organization.
 
WHAT PARTICIPANTS LEARN
After attending this session, the participants will be able to:

  • Share individual visions to create a common Shared Vision.
  • Examine mental models that are preventing you organizationally from achieving your “Nirvana.”
  • Identify rational choices that are moving you toward organizational Hell.
  • Build a tactical action plan to move towards the strategic.
  • Look toward a future vision.

 

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UNIT 1
 What: Introduction to Scenario Planning
  • Sample Scenarios
  • Write a Scenario
  • Definition
  • Multiple Plausible Futures
  • Scenario Characteristics
  • Three Dimensions
UNIT 2
 How: A Technique
  • Graphically Speaking
  • Scenarios
  • Brainstorming
  • The Learning
UNIT 3
 Now: Practicum
  • Issues and Assignments
  • Create a Surprise-Free Scenario
UNIT 4
 Why: Complexity and the Increased Urgency
  • Benefits
  • Awareness and Early Warning
  • The Team