Future Journeys: Corporate Programs
Corporate Programs
Corporate Foresight and Innovation Programs
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Future Journeys corporate programs use an integrated set of methods with a focus on action learning as the most successful proven methodology for deep behavioural learning. We leverage this with a combination of coaching, 360° observation and assessment, and self-management processes. We have created programs that integrate with your organisation’s strategy and help you identify personal key points for integration. We give you Motivation for Innovation.
Integral to our processes is understanding your own learning (or meta learning), so our corporate programs help you identify your own favoured style of learning, your orientation to uncertainty (important now and increasingly in the future), how action learning works, how self and peer assessment and observation work, and help you develop insights into your personal values. This enables deep and life-long learning so that you leverage your training investment in this and every future learning opportunity you have.
We then build a core of knowledge through which to continue to grow and to build clearer strategic views of current and future operating environments. We work with coursework and your own experiences and any special projects that may be designed to ensure you get the most out of your learning through the opportunity to apply it immediately at work. The key to our learning is application, feedback and practice continuing through to mastery. We create safe learning environments and relationships where feedback can be given and accepted meaningfully. Through coaching, we mentor you the learner so that you develop deep understanding of how YOU learn and what motivates YOU to learn. We explore the links between your own values and the values of the organisation you work for, thus deepening the links and motivation for your organisation.
Personal performance, feedback and learning are linked inextricably to organisational performance, feedback and organisational learning. Future Journeys strengthens the key links between the personal and the organisational, enabling opportunities for true leaps in organisational performance and strategic alignment. Motivation for Innovation.
Over a year, participants can expect to build a workbook including both development plans and images of themselves, their organisation’s strategic system, a Foresight and Innovation toolkit and key points for intervention as they journey to the future. See the Future First then bring it with you back to the workplace.
Executive Foresight and Innovation program:
- Emotionally intelligent Leadership (2-day)
- Futures making: Creating the Future in the Age of Uncertainty (2-day)
- Unleashing the Innovative Culture (2-day)
- Futures simulation (2-day residential)
Management Foresight and Innovation programs:
- Enhance Emotional Intelligence: Self, Team, Others (2-day)
- Innovation Leadership (2-day)
- Foresight, Strategy, Futures (2-day)
- Leadership simulation (2-day residential
Graduate Foresight and Innovation programs:
- Introduction to Emotional Intelligence (1-day)
- Introduction to Strategy (1-day)
- Project Management in action (1-day)
- From Creativity to Innovation (1-day)
- Introduction to Futures Thinking (1-day)
- Leadership Simulation (2-day residential)
Your investment in Corporate Programs is:
Standard price $3000 per 2-day (executive)
2-day residential $3200 (executive)
Standard price $2200 per 2-day (management)
2-day residential $2400 (management)
Standard price $1000 per day (graduate)
2-day residential $2000 (graduate)
All courses run over about six months. There is a 15% discount if you attend the full program. Prices are:
Graduate and Fast Track program: $5950 (7 days including 2-day residential)
Management program: $7650 (8 days including 2-day residential)
Executive program: $10370 (8 days inc. 2-day residential)
Global Leadership Futures Simulation 1300 Pounds (2.5 day residential at a castle in Wales).
Please contact us to discuss same organisation discounts or to develop and run programs in-house.
And join us for a taster on our public programs:
- Parties for the Future
- Futures Dreaming weekends
- Futures Dreaming one-day workshops
- The Innovators’ Breakfast
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INDIVIDUAL COURSES:
Emotional Intelligence Core Knowledge
(Introduction to Emotional Intelligence (1-day Graduates and Fast-Trackers)
What decides success at work? Work is increasingly complex and uncertain, and workplace change is constant. IQ is important but not enough. Technical skills are essential but not enough. How can we excel? How do excellent leaders excel? Emotional intelligence provides the answers: it captures the essence of ‘soft skills’, the competencies that make excellent leaders. People are the core of your business. Understanding how to deal with your clients, staff and advisors and get the most out of your employees in fruitful and creative relationships can save you thousands of dollars every year in recruitment, training, tendering and proposal costs. This is just the tip of the iceberg as you start to accrue the enormous benefits in customer loyalty (as they recommend you to all their colleagues and friends) and staff motivation.
This is the program to develop further your emotional intelligence competencies. It is experiential. You start by learning about EI but mostly you will be doing EI. Deep learning is best achieved by immersion, experimentation and simulation. In order to retain what you learn in the workshop you will be given opportunities to practice relevant competencies within a safe environment. You will build your knowledge and competencies experientially. The workshop is the beginning of a process, a Journey to the Future.
The 2-day Management program Enhance Emotional Intelligence: Self, Team, Others starts with the Core Knowledge then extends these ideas further. It works on identifying your current strengths and the areas you want to develop. You will identify then work on the specific competencies you need in your workplace right now. You will work with real simulations of your work environment to practice the competencies you need to excel with your current projects, teams and situations. You will also identify and work with the future so that you can put plans in place to work for today and tomorrow. The workshop then extends this knowledge around the teams you work with so you can identify and assist development of your team and business unit.
The 2-day Executive program Emotionally Intelligent Leadership builds on the Core Knowledge then extends these ideas into the realm of the organisational. It addresses first self, then others, then how to build an emotionally intelligent culture. Participants get opportunities to examine EI competency areas of greatest priority within the organisation and how to focus organisational strategy to those areas. As pictures of the future begin to build, executives can consider whether the EI focus will change and how that can be accommodated into their organisational strategy system. Spend time on yourself. Understanding the self is the foundation for understanding others. Understand your own motivations and how to influence others. Reflect on how others perceive you and how you can best use this knowledge to build allegiance to your
Innovation Core Knowledge
From Creativity to Innovation (1-day Graduates, Fast-Trackers and others who want a current update on Innovation)
Do you have a head full of ideas, but no idea where to begin? Does innovation have a confused place in your organisation? Do you want to be creative in your approach, but not sure the business culture allows it? This course gives you a broader understanding of the place (and importance) of creativity and innovation in the workplace. Learn why 92% of CEOs believe it is essential to business success. Learn how it creates new revenue streams. Learn methods to tap into your innate creativity, to create new ideas and turn them into new products, services and processes. Gain personal learning, personal creative leadership and an effective innovation toolkit to carry on with. Turn creative ideas into workable products and processes. Develop new income streams, new products, new services, and new processes. Work on both sides of the Income/Costs value equation. Increase revenues AND reduce costs. You gain Motivation for Innovation.
The 2-day Management program Innovation Leadership starts with the Innovation Core Knowledge then extends the ideas further into the realm of Making Innovation Happen. You will learn innovation leadership: how to develop an innovative team culture, how to avoid the blockages to new ideas, how to encourage new ways of looking at old issues. Implement creative leadership in your team or business unit. Extend creative partnerships to suppliers, the public and beyond. Understand how current organisational processes and systems help or hinder the innovation process. Consider what is measured in the organisation. How does that contribute to innovation outcomes (new revenue streams, reduced costs). Understand what you can you do within your business unit or team to realize its creative potential? Understand how releasing creativity motivates your team beyond their current performance levels. Learn how to motivate to innovate.
The 2-day Executive program Unleashing the Innovative Culture builds on the Innovation Core Knowledge extending into how you build innovation into your organisation’s development. Learn methods to analyse organisational culture and understand the key points for intervention that are within your area of influence. Build innovation into your organisation’s strategic systems. Understand what kinds of behaviours your current reward systems actually reward. Is innovation among them or have you created a risk-averse rather than a risk-managed culture? Are your people too frightened or too apathetic or too exhausted to innovate? Work to uncover the kinds of behaviours you want in your organisation and how you can help them develop. Motivate your people to thrive in an uncertain and complex world by unleashing their creative edge.
Foresight Core Knowledge
Introduction to Futures Thinking (1-day Graduates, Fast-Trackers and others who want a current update on Foresight and the Future)
The 2-day Management program Foresight, Strategy, Futures starts with the Foresight Core Knowledge then extends the ideas further into the realm of.
The 2-day Executive program Futures Making in Uncertainty builds on the Foresight Core Knowledge extending into how you build innovation into your organisation’s develop
Introduction to Strategy:
Understanding organisations’ Strategic Systems (1-day Graduates, Fast-Trackers and others whose career paths have taken them in different directions or who want a current update on strategy)
Strategy is the lifeblood of an organisation. From the entrepreneur’s dream to the long-term plans of a large and long-lived public company, it is all strategy. Use effective tools and techniques to gain an integrated and structured understanding of the business environment, the trends affecting it and the skills needed to be successful within it. Understand the external environment and the internal strategic systems and your role in them. Come along to this short program, learn how to use the tools, develop strategic approaches on some real issues (that you can bring along for added value), and take away useful knowledge that you can put into practice immediately and a toolkit to support you. Understand strategic systems and your role in them. Understand Strategy as intelligent machine, and Strategy as creative imagination.
Project Management in action
Design, create and take action in a competitive challenging and uncertain day (1-day Graduates, Fast-Trackers and those wanting an innovative, deeper and more effective approach to project management)
A highly experiential interactive day to practice managing development and production projects in the context of a business unit with suppliers, clients, other staff and management. Understand why planning is important and how you manage yourself when your first impulse is to get into action. How do you balance this impulse with those who want to spend all day planning? What is the right balance between planning and action? How do you get others motivated around your priorities? How do you balance conflicting priorities? How do you deal with issues of design, planning, quality, production, management, client and staff expectations? What do you do when priorities differ? How do you develop systems that allow compromise between conflicting demands and enable optimization of outcomes? Did you help the team stay on budget and on time? How did you perform under uncertainty? Reflect on the experience: what you have learned about yourself and your relationship to others. Reflect on the outcomes: did your performance enhance the result? What kind of feedback did you get from other participants? How can you work this into your personal development plans? Build on your foundation knowledge of Emotional Intelligence and relationship and work processes to take your project management competencies to a new level.
- Introduction to Futures Thinking (1-day)
- Leadership Simulation 1 (2-day residential)
Strategic Leadership Course (4-days):
‘Discovery Destiny Destination’
Do you find that many of your ideas are falling to the side? Would you like to be become a better leader in your organisation and be more influential on a strategic level? Do you find it difficult to understand how to motivate both yourself and your employees? If you find yourself constantly having to fire fight issues rather than seeing them and addressing them before they arise, this course is great for you. You will work with both personal and organisational values, giving you knowledge and skills to help you better understand your team. You will learn to motivate and interact with your team effectively. Motivation will improve team and organisational morale and improve your company’s bottom line. We allow you to be able to deal with issues upstream, rather than downstream, making a more proactive work environment. Strategic Leadership will allow you to see the big picture; this course will help you see the forest and the trees, and envisage your future. Picture your long-term goals and achieve them. Develop the steps to get there. Assist your employees to add real value to your organisation. [MORE]
Business Simulations (2-days live-in)
‘Emotional and Strategic Intelligence’
Are you often surprised or unsure of why a certain product didn’t turn out like you expected? A key team member acted in a surprising way? Well…this program will help you to better understand yourself and your business relationships. This is a three-day intensive (plus follow-up and take-home report) real-World business simulation. Understand group dynamics and help you understand how to motivate and make your employees more efficient and effective. This will help you become more competent in your business life. It will give you an opportunity to practice strategic and emotional competencies, working on strategic development, improving emotional intelligence, as well as, innovation development and futures thinking. [MORE]
Innovation Leadership (4-days)
‘Creativity, Culture and Organisational Performance’
Do you have a room full of ideas, but no idea where to begin? Does innovation have a confused place in your organisation? Do you want to be creative in your approach, but your business culture does not allow it? This course gives you a broader understanding of the place (and importance) of creativity and innovation in the workplace. You will learn methods to create new ideas and turn them into new products, services and processes. You will also learn innovation leadership: how to develop an innovative organisational culture, how to avoid the blockages to new ideas, how to encourage new ways of looking at old issues. Personal learning, personal leadership and an effective toolkit to carry on with. Implement creative leadership in your organisation. Turn creative ideas to workable products and processes. Develop new income streams, new products, new services, and new processes. Work on both sides of the Income/Costs equation. Increase revenues AND reduce costs. [MORE]
Futures Thinking (4-days)
Do you currently develop strategy without really thinking about the future environment? Does your organisation currently ignore or pay little attention to the wildcards or discontinuity in your market research? Do you make long term plans with your feet still planted firmly in today? This program allows you to develop strategies based in the future. It gives you the tools to walk through to 2010 and encourages you to see the building of your future. It leaves you with a toolkit to improve strategy and innovation. Allowing you to see possible future discoveries, technologies, breakthroughs and explosions and what this will mean for your industry. Don’t look for tomorrow with your feet anchored in today. Learn how to encourage creativity and innovate in your business, strategy as intelligent machine and strategy as creative imagination. [MORE]
Introduction to Strategy (1-day)
Strategy is the lifeblood of an organisation. From the entrepreneur’s dream to the long-term plans of a large and long-lived public company, it is all strategy. Many of us however have little time to devote to learning. We may just need an update on the latest tools and techniques to gain a more effective and structured understanding of the business environment, the trends affecting it and the skills needed to be successful within it. Come along to this short program, learn how to use the tools, develop strategic approaches on some real issues (that you can bring along for added value), and take away useful knowledge that you can put into practice immediately and a toolkit to support you. Learn about Strategy as intelligent machine, and Strategy as creative imagination. [MORE]
Learning outcomes
- To learn new ways of identifying and measuring intelligence
- To understand how to develop successful new patterns of behaviour
- To learn methods for developing the elements of personal competence: self-awareness, self-regulation and motivation
- To learn methods for developing the elements of social competence: empathy and social skills
- To learn how to develop a relevant and appropriate personal development plan relevant to their work and career aspirations
What decides success at work?
Work is increasingly complex and uncertain. Workplace change is constant. Technical skills are essential but not enough. How can we excel?
Emotional Intelligence provides answers: it captures the essence of “soft skills”: the competencies that make excellent leaders. Learn how you can develop these competencies using practical exercises and a program of continuing self-development.
Culture Change (2-days)
Organisational culture responds slowly to change. It moves along at a slower pace than the increasingly complex and uncertain business environment in which your company operates. Most company cultures do not support their strategy, future visions or even current operational challenges. It is like riding a horse through the city, slow, ponderous, alarmed by the apparent chaos surrounding it. Try driving a modern, flexible, computerised car with night vision, decision support and low emissions. Still a challenge in the traffic but much better: faster, more comfortable, more flexible, enabling multi-tasking and adaptable.
Learn how to analyse organisational culture, understand it, and work with the processes essential to changing it. Take away tools to continue to work with it in your workplace and develop a support team to confer with. [MORE]
Introduction to Futures Thinking (1-day):
‘See the future –Understand it, Create it’
Rapid change, increasing complexity, new technology escalation, increasing stakeholder demands, workforce changes and globalisation create an increasingly challenging organisational environment in which it is important to not just operate, but thrive. Ninety two per cent of CEOs[1] believe that innovation is critical to the future success of their organizations. Introduction to futures thinking gives you an introductory look at long-term strategy, foreseeing the future environment and getting all your people working to the same futures. Learn to deal with business uncertainty in a more effective way. [MORE]
The role of business in society is changing and there is a growing range of non-technical competencies that individuals require in this increasingly complex and uncertain world. Managers are finding that traditional approaches are not adequate; new thinking and new skills are required.
Thinking with foresight will assist our audience to work with this turbulent environment. Within the program they will start to develop competencies associated with new ways of thinking and learn how to use tools to help them analyse and develop considered responses to uncertainty and complexity.
Learning outcomes
- Identify emergent issues and trends that shape the strategic situations of organisations and their competitors into the future
- Identify their strategic and futures thinking competencies and develop approaches to continue development of those competencies
- Understand corporate strategic thinking and systematised approaches to nurturing these corporate capabilities
- Analyse complex ethical issues in a way that assists decision-making
Thinking with foresight introduces you to skills and ways of thinking that will assist you to thrive in this increasingly complex and turbulent world.
Thinking with foresight complements the structured and analytical approaches of traditional management and strategic management. Together these extend the range of possibilities open to individuals and organisations to manage complexity, uncertainty and competition.
[1] Arthur D Little report
