All organizational leaders are facing unprecedented challenges in dealing with today’s global pandemic. Everyone is faced with difficult choices at a time when prospects for the future are wildly uncertain, and when many of our existing assumptions have been blown apart. In past decades, we had heard about the possibility and the consequences of serious global pandemics. But when COVID -19 occurred, most of us were clearly unprepared.
Rather than trying to predict the future, organizations need to strengthen their abilities to cope with uncertainty. In a volatile world, scenario planning — a technique that uses stories about the future to change the minds and actions of teams so that they are better prepared for tomorrow — equips you with the skills and tools to deal effectively with potential opportunities, threats and challenges.
This 90-minute interactive SSIR Live! program will demonstrate the ways that scenario analysis can help organizations make sense out of the current picture in order to better plan and prepare for the next shock–which might be just around the corner–and outline how scenario planning should become an essential part of every social sector leader’s strategic toolkit for the decades ahead. The session will address burning issues such as:
- Why leaders often ask the wrong questions about the future
- How scenario planning can bring disparate groups together to better understand a complex picture
- Why current approaches to scenario planning are limited, and what needs to happen to really prepare us for radical uncertainty
- How scenario planning can go beyond just dealing with uncertainty and help organizations set visions for a better future
Webinar price: $69 | Price includes access to live webinar & 1 year video recording