Scenario Planning Training
Including Strategic Thinking and Change Management
This Scenario Planning Training is offered throughout South Africa is as
in-house, public and online training
in-house, public and online training
Scenario Planning Training
– Including Strategic Thinking and Change Management –
Suitable for Managers and Management Teams
Course Duration: 2 days
NQF Level: 5
Course Objective:
Through this Scenario Planning Training, delegates will be equipped with methodologies, tools and templates for strategic thinking, scenario planning and change management, enabling them to:
- Learn from their past – by converting hindsight to foresight
- Develop and focus on foresight – by identifying probabilities, possibilities and potential wildcards in the future for their companies
- Identify scenarios that are “plausible” and “preferable” for their future
- Implement effective change management programmes – to ensure the organisation and employees can navigate through the “transitions of change”
- Focus on building effective implementation and follow up processes
Course content and outcomes:
Through this Scenario Planning training – including Strategic Thinking and Change Management, delegates will learn:
Strategic Thinking and Scenario Planning
- Organisational Performance Analysis: Where does our performance go?
- The 5 Step Model for Scenario Planning & Strategic Implementation
- Converting hindsight to foresight
- Learning from our past: What could we have done better?
- Developing and focusing on foresight
- Identifying probabilities, possibilities and potential wildcards in the future
- Implementing scenario planning
- Identifying “plausible & preferable” scenarios that you could / should pursue
- From scenarios to strategic planning
- Agreeing on appropriate scenarios & strategies to address future opportunities and threats
- Focusing on strategic implementation
- Converting hindsight to foresight
Change Management – for the implementation of scenario planning and strategic thinking
- Understand why people resist change
- The change curve, and its effect on individual and team performance
- Understand the principles of how best to manage the transitions through change
- Management misconceptions about how to handle change
- Types of loss employees experience during periods of major changes
- The phases of transition through change
- Essential principles leaders should apply for change management
- How to ensure trust in the process of implementing change?
- The speed of trust – and how it affects individuals’ willingness to embrace strategic change
- The Caring Model of Trust
- The 6 Phases Model for Effective Change Management
- Analysis of the envisioned change: SWOT
- Motivating change
- Creating the vision of change
- Developing political support, and ensuring the effectiveness of the change sponsor and change agents
- Managing the transition of change
- Sustaining momentum
- Reflecting on other change management models: Kotter, McKinsey 7-S, ADKAR, Kubler-Ross