Key Features

3 or 2 days in length

For Middle to Senior Managers

Presented by Richard Searle & Sohail Inayatullah

 

This Workshop is presented by Robert Burke and Sohail Inayatullah at the Melbourne Business School, Mt Eliza executive education twice a year in May and September. These Workshops are 4 days in length and targeted at middle to senior managers, CEOs and Board members.

Please contact Mt Eliza, toll free: 1800 00 66 80 or email: program@mbs.edu.

The focus of this program is about organisational and societal transformation. It involves an emphasis by individuals and organisations to think about the future and realize what new values, virtues and goals are needed for a better world. What kind of world do you want to live and work in?

To download a brochure and enrol please go to: http://mteliza.mbs.edu/go/what-we-offer/open-programs/focused-programs/futures-thinking-and-strategy-development/futures-thinking-and-strategy-development

Business leaders are paid to focus on the bottom-line and they should.  They acknowledge that environmental and social concerns deserve attention, but not at the expense of company value or shareholder returns.  Surprisingly, many companies are discovering that they can enhance their competitive positioning while improving their image as responsible companies.

It is very important that we understand that what strategy is – is what you actually do.  It cannot be anything else.  Strategy happens in the present, in the now, by you.  Strategic and business planning, although very important, is still just espoused strategy – it is not strategy in action.  This is why futures thinking matters - it is the thinking you need to do before you even think about strategy.  

The objectives:

  1. Using new and parallel sources of information

    1. Scanning the environment

    2. Find new links to our markets / trends

  2. Look for opportunities for quantum movement

    1. Look for new “adjacent space” to move our business into

    2. Planning horizons – timeframes

  3. Focus on own actions

    1. Take responsibility for innovation and creation

    2. Get more comfortable with taking some risk

  4. Going forward

    1. Map out what happens today versus what we want in the future and track progress

    2. Work to build a work environment supportive of change and innovation.

The Workshops are led by Robert Burke and he uses a well tested process to improve the futures thinking and strategic planning skills of any manager. 

Why don't you talk to us about it, or recommend us to your Executive or HR Director?