Design Your Life with Futures Thinking
Design your preferred future using futures thinking methods and build your 10 year personal strategic plan.
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What You Will Learn!
- The course will teach you to anticipate and prepare for different possible futures.
- Individuals will learn to use futures methods at a personal or individual level.
- Individuals can learn futures methods on a small scale, in their personal lives, and then apply that knowledge at any level. Scalability works.
- Create a vision, strategies, and a plan for the long-term future.
- Explore the future with scenarios.
- Understand the present and the forces that are now at work.
- Gain in self-confidence, a sense of power over your life.
- Every individual and family should benefit from understanding how to explore the future and anticipate events that have a high probability of occurring.
- You or any learner can create a valid, usable long-term strategic plan for yourself and your family.
- Gain a long-term perspective.
- The power of the long-term perspective is a critical attribute of visionary leaders—a critical component of leadership in all its forms.
- Become a great parent who sees the future potential of their children.
- Identify a vision, a destination in the future, then lead the way to that destination.
- Develop worthwhile and achievable goals with strategies to achieve them.
Description
"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much." Jim Rohn
You would not get in your car and drive down the motorway at 100Km per hour without looking up and ahead to see what is coming. Yet many of us do that with our lives and our businesses. We need to look up to avoid a crash that we could have avoided if we exercised a bit of foresight! Foresight is the ability to see what is likely to happen in the future and to take appropriate action.
Knowing how to think about the future is becoming increasingly urgent as the pace of change increases. We all know that the pace of change today is fast, driven by such drivers of change as technology, climate change, globalisation, demographics and geo-politics. In the past more people lived in the community they grew up in and followed the life of their parents. Not so today. In this present time we are overwhelmed with the options available to us. We can choose to live almost anywhere in the world. We can even build careers in fields that did not exist when we entered school! Using the internet you can have instant access to whatever you want - things to buy, a new job, government agencies, experts in particular fields, courses and potential customers all over the world. Yes the internet has connect us dear reader! The possibilities are endless but how do we plan for and make sense of the "Future"? That is what this course is all about, primarily from a personal perspective.
To make good decisions today about our careers, finances, families and general planning we need to understand how the world is changing, what we can expect in the future and very importantly how we want our lives to be in the future (our preferred future).
The techniques in this course are practiced by companies, government agencies, "think tanks" and professional futurists around the world to anticipate the future and we can use them too to better plan our lives.
There are three main components to the course:
1. Understand where you are in your life at present.
2. Step two is an exploration of the future using the scenario method.
3. Step three is basic strategic planning, but with a strong emphasis on the long-term perspective and the vision of the future.
"What will I do with the rest of my one wild and precious life?"
Mary Oliver, A Summer's Day
If we are thinking long term rather than short term, we can be much more productive, and the eventual results of our efforts can be extraordinary.
By the end of the course you will have decided what your preferred future is in 10 years time and will have developed strategies and a plan of action to bring your preferred future about.
When you are clear on you preferred future you are well on your way to making that future a reality.
Enjoy the course!
Thomas Carroll, PhD
Who Should Attend!
- For individuals and families: Every individual and family should benefit from understanding how to explore the future.
- Entrepreneurs and small businesses: Small businesses can benefit greatly from developing a long-term perspective and applying futures methods to develop scenarios, vision, strategies, and plans.
- Every individual and every entity can benefit from exploring and understanding the methods that professional futurists practice.