ETUITraining: Introduction to Forward Thinking

Would you like to know how you or your organisation can make more future-proof decisions, but don’t even know where to start? Maybe you’ve been thinking that you’d like to better understand and use foresight in your daily work?

3.-4. On 2 April, you will have the opportunity to develop your foresight skills and discover how to use future observation methods in your daily work, under our guidance during two intensive training days.

At the end of the training:

• understand the importance of foresight and be able to use different foresight approaches,
• You’ll have at your disposal a forward thinking toolbox with lots of different methods and practical worksheets to use yourself, and.
• you can apply forward thinking in the day-to-day work of your organisation and inspire others to do the same.

The aim of the training is to give you a comprehensive overview of the steps and tools of foresight and to help you think about how to bring foresight into your own or your organisation’s activities.

During the training, you will learn about the most common practical approaches to thinking about the future, such as horizon scanning (understanding signals and trends), future frames, scenario building,backcasting, visioning. Together, we will discuss your role as a forward-thinker in your organisation. It is important for us that you understand how forward-looking decision making works, and that you get others in your organisation on board!

We’ll work through the exercises together on practical worksheets that you can also use independently after the course.

The course is for you if you are interested in thinking about the future and want to learn something new and interesting. Foresight approaches are useful if you work for yourself (e.g. designers) or if you want to become a foresight leader in your organisation (e.g. HR managers, development managers, strategy managers).