We take it for granted that some things just can't happen or won't happen.

Our Scenario Planning Workshop helps individuals take a long-term view in a world of uncertainty. Participants learn a disciplined, structured method for imagining multiple possible versions of the future using a strategic thinking process.

SESSION OVERVIEW

Scenario Planning is an innovative technology which helps leaders take a long view in a world of uncertainty. It is a disciplined, structured method for imagining possible futures in a strategic thinking process. Scenarios are essentially "educated stories" about the way things might turn out tomorrow and how we might recognize and adapt to those changing aspects of our world - changes that we might otherwise miss or deny.

Workshop participants learn how to effectively use this powerful tool to make better decisions about the future by increasing the scope and quality of the thinking behind those decisions.

Participants start by identifying a complex strategic organizational issue and are then guided through a process which helps them answer a series of critical questions:

1. What does the team absolutely know about the situation?

2. What does the team think it knows about the situation?

3. What do we not know but wish we knew?

4. What do we know we don't we know?

Scenario Planning is used extensively and effectively by Royal Dutch Shell and is a key factor in keeping them as a leader in the Energy business.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Anyone who has an interest in adding Scenario Planning to her/his Strategic Planning toolbox.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• What scenario planning is and is not
• The value and limits of scenario planning as a strategic planning tool
• How to use the results of scenario planning to create organizational success
• The value of creating cues and clues that act as “triggers” for initiating specific Action Plans

KEY TAKE-AWAYS

• An understanding of how to develop educated stories about the future as a method to identify plausible and possible new outcomes or organizational responses to internal and external organizational upsets.
• 4 Critical Questions of Scenario Planning.
• 8 Steps to Developing Scenarios.
• A template for walking through Scenario Planning exercises with your own team.