Course Description

COURSE OVERVIEW

This training seminar provides tools to enable delegates to make the best strategic business decisions to adapt to the changing forward operating environment. It will enable delegates to define management systems that will give them better information about the system dynamics of their organisations and better information about foreseeable changes in the operating environment. It will also enable delegates to identify organisational risks associated with business as usual, and to make better strategic decisions about changing the forward direction of the Organisation.

COURSE OBJECTIVE

At the end of this training programme, delegates will be able to:

• Understand system dynamics between your Organisation and the operating environment
• Identify and Articulate possible future business risks from “un-sustainability”
• Design better strategies using Transition Engineering and Innovation thinking tools
• Establish a high degree of confidence in the long-term prosperity of your Organisation
• Make better decisions by “thinking differently”

COURSE CONTENT

Introduction & System Dynamics 

• Sustainability: The Capacity for Continuity into the Long Term Future
• Safe Operating Spaces and “unsustainability”
• The Importance of Energy in Human Systems
• Historical Background to Current Global Challenges
• Historical Responses to Un-sustainability
• Overview of Global Problems of Unsustainability

Introduction to Transition Engineering Decision Making Tools 

• The Unsustainability Challenges Facing My Organisation
• Examples and Use of Future Scenarios
• The Challenge of Energy Return on Energy Invested (EROI)
• The Problem of Exponential Growth
• The Relative Usefulness of Existing Future Scenarios
• Introduction to Transition Engineering and Innovation

Thinking Differently: Designing Change  

• Thinking Tools that can Help Decision Making about Strategic Direction
• Path Break Concepts – envisioning a sustainable future
• Learn from What Works – Sustainable models for economic activity and capital
• Achieving Resilience to External Change
• Examples of Organisations that have made Path-break Changes for Sustainability
• Path Break Solution for Your Own Organisation

Designing Strategic Path Break Concepts and Change Plans  

• Creating a Vision of Future Success
• Using Back-Casting to See-out How to Get to Where You want to be
• Developing a Change Programme
• Identifying Barriers to Change
• Trigger Events – external and internal events that help avoid undesirable inertia
• Collaboration with Operational Staff to Implement Change

Implementation & Course Assessment  

• Creating a Change Programme from a Back-Casting Change Path
• Managing Core and Non-Core Activities in a Change Programme
• Use of Standard Management Tools to Implement Path Break Changes
• The role of Teams in Change – Shared Vision, Trust Structure and Leadership
• The Importance of Strategic Communications to Maintain Momentum and Ownership

TARGET AUDIENCE

LEADERS

DECISION MAKERS

Delivery Method: Combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations

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Fee:

Duration: 1 week

Course Date: MARCH 13TH – 17TH 2023