Do you want your team to get a taste for doing futures thinking and how it aligns to the latest risk management standards?
Our 'Implementing ISO31050' workshop will provide participants with the insight required to determine if foresight is something their organisation should pursue.
This introduction to foresight uses structured processes and is informed by exploring consequences and also the associated opportunities of situations in future time horizons.
This 3-hour virtual workshop is run in partnership with the Risk Management Institute of Australasia (RMIA) and is limited in size to maximise interactions with the teaching team.
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Often the first step in the futures thinking journey is to perform a horizon scan. But with diverse perspectives across the organisation, who’s view do you exclude or include?
We use a process that allows for all the voices you want heard in the organisation to identify the emerging issues and risks they are most concerned about. We use a variety of frameworks such as the World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report; The CSIRO Our Future World megatrends or the UN Shaping the Trends of Our Time report to provide a structured approach to exploring these issues.
We combine the data to establish shared and outlying views on those issues in your business.
Our Horizon scanning activities are typically conducted with your team at your premises and can be embedded in annual strategy days or dedicated events. These can include small or large teams from 5 to more that 200 people.
The result is a dedicated horizon scan report and a clear understanding across participants of the issues that are likely to create risk across one or more future time horizons.
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This workshop is for people in organisations that need to begin to develop competency in futures thinking for a given project, with a focus on scenario planning. It is also suitable for those that would like to broaden their knowledge of foresight.
It applies the rigorous Stretch Thinking Loops® technique that embeds the latest understanding of strategic foresight, decision-making, team performance, critical thinking and creativity.
Our Stretch Thinking Loops® workshops are conducted with your team at your premises, reducing travel costs, and develops scenarios specific to your organisation's unique requirements. We take on a significant issue with your team - like an emerging risk, to not only lift capability, but also produce a futures thinking product for the business.
The workshop is a 2-day interactive face to face learning experience with a minimum of 7 and maximum of 14 people to ensure time for the greatest interaction with the teaching team and reflection.
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Our scenario-based strategising workshop prepares your executive team for an uncertain future by identifying the driving forces they believe will most likely to impact your organisation.
Together with selected strategic risks, they are translated into a set of preliminary or first-generation scenarios that can be prioritised for BAU or a crisis context. This supports the executive or management team to conduct their due diligence around emerging risks.
Is your executive team ready to move beyond issue-based strategy development, that assumes incremental change, towards a more flexible and agile approach?
This 4-hour in person workshop will support your executive team to use the latest megatrends, so they can identify, contextualise, and prioritise driving forces for your organisationand translate these into a series of scenario-based strategies.
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Imagine a forward facing team that looks beyond the current horizon, a team with the capability to build strategy, solve problems, and develop innovations all through the deployment of one structured technique.
A Pandora Cell has the ability to be deployed across a range of business as usual and disruption contexts that are informed by driving forces and strategic risks.
Once competent, a Pandora Cell acts as the futures thinking engine of the organisation, being guided by the executive, and producing outputs for other leaders in the business to engage with.
Our 6 or 11-month programs can include Human Synergistics© psychometric inventories, a baseline assessment of the team's critical thinking and creativity skills, and ongoing training on innovative foresight techniques.
The Pandora Cell program includes a combination of in-person sessions conducted at your organisation's premises and real-time virtual coaching.
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If you require something more bespoke, or want the support of experts, Stretch Think can also facilitate a futures thinking session specifically for your team. Collaborating either virtually or face-to-face, we will work with your team to uplift their foresight capability.
Our innovative techniques will empower your team to think critically about possible futures and unleash their creativity to identify opportunities that can drive innovation.
Depending on your time constraints, we can facilitate a session for your team in only a few hours, a few days or with sessions over several months. We have experience with organisations large and small, from both the private, public and not-for-profit sectors.
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