Design Your Life With Futures Thinking

Free Download Design Your Life With Futures Thinking
Published 6/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz
Language: English | Size: 3.35 GB | Duration: 3h 15m
Design your preferred future using futures thinking methods and build your 10 year personal strategic plan.

What you’ll 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.
Requirements
No particular requirements – the course is designed to be accessible.
Description
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 DayIf 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
Overview
Section 1: Introduction
Lecture 1 Introduction to the course
Lecture 2 Introduce yourself to other course participants
Lecture 3 What is futures thinking?
Lecture 4 Why do we need futures thinking more than ever today?
Lecture 5 What are the benefits of futures thinking?
Lecture 6 What are the challenges of futures thinking?
Lecture 7 Practice – Reflect on the possibility of a longer life
Lecture 8 Summary of section one
Section 2: Understanding your life from past to present
Lecture 9 Introduction to section two
Lecture 10 Learn from the past to anticipate the future
Lecture 11 Practice – Travel to 10 years in your past
Lecture 12 Stakeholders in your life
Lecture 13 The 10 Stages of Life
Lecture 14 Trends and forces of change in our personal lives
Lecture 15 Practical – Personal Trend Lines
Lecture 16 Events that will impact your personal life
Lecture 17 Trends and forces at the macro level and horizon scanning
Lecture 18 Understand your personal beliefs, values and assumptions
Lecture 19 SWOT analysis
Lecture 20 The Futures Wheel
Lecture 21 Summary of section two
Section 3: Exploring Multiple Plausible Futures
Lecture 22 Introduction to section three
Lecture 23 Exploring alternate futures with the futures cone
Lecture 24 Using scenarios to explore the future
Lecture 25 Build Scenario one – more of the same, probable future
Lecture 26 Exploring the forces driving the other scenarios
Lecture 27 Practical – What’s the story?
Lecture 28 Summary of section three
Section 4: Create the future that you want for yourself
Lecture 29 Introduction to section four
Lecture 30 Creating a personal strategic plan
Lecture 31 Step 1 – Create a vision of your preferred future
Lecture 32 Step 2 – Strategies to achieve your vision
Lecture 33 Step 3 – Create an action plan from your strategies
Lecture 34 Backcasting for new insights
Lecture 35 Vulnerability analysis
Lecture 36 Gap Analysis
Lecture 37 Step 4 – Contingency planning
Lecture 38 Summary of section four
Section 5: Course conclusion
Lecture 39 Introduction to section five
Lecture 40 Living your plan
Lecture 41 Practical – a letter from the future
Lecture 42 Resources and sources of further information
Lecture 43 Congratulations
Lecture 44 Bonus lecture
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.
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