Corporate Workshop in a Box

What the Corporate Workshop in a Box is all about:

THE FUTURE IS COMING (With Added Horse Power) – Business Forecasting in Uncertain Times

The Future Is Coming is a workshop that was designed by Ken Cameron and our own EAL facilitator Russell Stratton and is successfully delivered by them at both the Banff Centre, here in Alberta and to business leaders across Canada via the TEC network.

This workshop is a great option to combine with one or two of the EAL exercises (Thinking Inside the Box and Count on Me) to provide a great corporate team event that will develop forecasting skills and enhance creative problem-solving skills.

Ideal for the following audiences:

• Business owners of local businesses
• Corporate management teams
• Managers or business owners and their teams
• A non-profit organization or community group

In this workshop a custom- designed card deck randomly generates potential future states that allow participants to tackle real-world challenges specific to their business. A great opportunity to brainstorm ideas to maintain a competitive edge in difficult economic times.

Participants are encouraged to apply the exercise to their division, department or business, and are encouraged to look for challenges to their business that they may not have yet considered. As a result the workshop has a practical and immediate application.

The workshop also develops an essential core competency for today’s leaders: innovation and creativity in the face of the unknown. A key learning outcome is an experiential understanding that we are NOT moving along a path towards a single predictable future. This common but mistaken paradigm creates the illusion that we can control what kind of future we are moving towards and when we will get there. This is a dangerous frame of mind for businesses and leaves them unprepared to deal with today’s economy.

A much more valuable model is to consider that the future is a train coming inexorably towards us. We can neither control the shape of the train nor the speed of which it is coming nor when it will arrive. The only thing we can do is prepare for its eventual arrival and what cargo it may contain.

Throughout the workshop, as new cards are dealt, participants must quickly adapt to volatile circumstances and find innovative solutions. Their comfort level with these changing parameters increases, they develop more confidence in themselves and even begin to eagerly embrace the excitement of the unknown.

This is a modular workshop that has been designed to be complete in either the 90 minute or 3 hour version. By adding either one or both of the suggested EAL exercises that comes with this corporate workshop and makes an ideal half day or full day workshop for corporate clients.

Additional elements can be added to enrich the experience for teams and customize the workshop to align with their intended learning outcomes.