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Leading like a Futurist

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How do you lead in a future filled with complexity and ambiguity? This course teaches you how to see, shape, and share the future for your organization, community, and life.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • You are a futurist
1. Leaders as Futurists
  • Characteristics of a futurist
  • Core principles of futures thinking
  • Making futures concrete
2. Seeing the Future
  • Understanding how to see futures
  • Seeing multiple futures at the same time
  • Futures headlines
  • Building anticipatory skills
  • Building contextual intelligence
  • Seeing the future through systems
3. Learning Break
  • Learning break
4. Shaping the Future
  • Identifying levers of change
  • Implications wheel
  • Shaping through clarity
  • Backcasting
5. Sharing the Future
  • Ways to share the future
  • Sharing the future from what's here
  • Sharing the future through visuals
  • Sharing the future through stories
Conclusion
  • Obstacles to futures thinking
  • Siemens case study
  • It starts with us

Taught by

Lisa Solomon

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