Catch the Signals from te Future
Who should take this course?
This workshop is for anyone who wants to spot changes early on,
anticipate trends, broaden their thinking, or innovate.
Useful when designing and developing a business (strategy), a product, or a government policy.
This workshop is for those who cannot predict the future, but want to have a say in how the future enfolds.
Description
You will learn how to spot a weak signal and explore first symptoms of change. This learning is relevant for your strategic insights, creative and critical thinking.
Content
- Initial orientation: Trends, weak signals, futures oriented thinking
- Explaining the practical part - Learning by doing
- Learning by Doing - Practice tool: Spot a week signal
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- Learning by Doing - Practice tool: Weak Signal Explorer
- Learning by Doing - Practice Tool: First symptoms of change
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- Learning by Doing - Practice tool: Speculate on futures
This is learning by doing workshop where participants learn to use tools for spotting weak signals that have potential to become trends.They are first signals of a potential change, a problem or an opportunity to explore. Participants will also learn how to analyze weak signals, and how to use them to create predictive scenarios of the future.
Outcomes
Participants get a set of tools that they use in daily practice.- Participants know how to find, analyze, and follow a weak signal.
- Participants learn how to develop a future scenario when a weak signal becomes mainstream. In the timeline of events, participants are prepared for this new future, as they already have foreseen it, and took action.
Terms and Conditions
Customer(Organization and course participants)
Minimum number of participants per course: 1.
Maximum number of participants per course: 16.
Registration is binding.
If a participant cannot attend the course, another person can take their place.
If cancellation is made less than 14 days before the course starts, we will charge 50% of the course fee.
Only participants who sit out the whole course will receive a certification of attendance. Participants who experience internet/power outages or poor streaming quality from their side: they cannot fully participate in the course, and join group work. They will be asked to leave the course and will not receive a certification of attendance. For those participants a new course should be purchased, with new date available.
Participants who leave the live course before it ends will not receive certification.
Trainer, Technology, and Unforeseen Events
If a trainer does not show or cancels the course, paid price reimbursement is 100%.
LX Futures does not take responsibility for internet/power outages, poor streaming quality, crashed software p. a. Zoom/Miro, sudden evacuation, fire drills, or natural disaster - as they are third party services and unforeseen circumstances.
If the course is interrupted by failed third party services the course will continue as soon as possible.
If the course is interrupted by failed third party services and LX Futures cannot continue on the same day: a new date for continuation can be planned with the customer, monetary reimbursement is 0%. If the participants covered more than 64% of the course before interruption they will be provided with the certification of attendance, and the course will not continue on another day.