C-3 Wiser Futures: Using Futures Tools to Better Understand and Create the Future

This popular workshop introduces the Institute for Alternative Futures’ excellent approaches to using futures techniques in communities, organizations, governments, and corporations.
You will use specific futures tools such as forecasts, scenarios, and visions; get practical advice on using futures tools to enhance learning and effective decision making within organizations and communities; and explore how aspirational futures can transform organizations. This is a highly interactive workshop where participants experience the tools we describe.

Every participant receives a sourcebook of tools and examples of work products that illustrate successful futures work. This is a highly rated workshop. Past participants have been able to adapt these tools for use in their own foresight and strategic planning work.

Highlights: Participants will leave this course with an understanding of:

• The wisdom and hands-on experience of veteran practitioners in identifying trends, developing forecasts, creating stimulating scenarios, and discovering powerful visions for an organization.
• The basic techniques that the Institute for Alternative Futures considers essential to visionary and effective strategic planning.

Dr. Clem Bezold is chairman, senior futurist, and founder of the Institute for Alternative Futures (IAF) and its for-profit subsidiary, Alternative Futures Associates (AFA). He is a member of the Association of Professional Futurists (APF), Alexandria, Virginia, USA
Thursday, July 18, 2013
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Registration $249.00

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