Get your team future-ready.
Every week, we help leaders like you start thinking about the near future not in vague trends or speculative stats but through relatable products and services your organisation or industry could be working on or catching up to in the next few years.
However…
Some leaders are built differently.
Some leaders are big-picture thinkers, preferring to drive organisational change by scaling idea generation to derive quality out of quantity.
Leaders like you who want to scale adaptability with a team thinking beyond conventional solutions.
Teams like yours get the most value out of Practical Futures by using it as:
Weekly conversation starter.
Share a story for everyone to read before the meeting.
Invite volunteers to take turns answering the same personal prompt.
Ask everyone to take turns answering the same professional prompt.
Workshop icebreaker
Invite participants to read a chosen story in a white-boarding tool like Miro or Mural.
Set the timer, reveal the prompts, and ask each participant to provide answers in their designated area.
Once the time is up, popcorn between each participant to share two favourite answers.
Break room activity
Divide large groups into smaller break rooms and have each group work through a different story and prompts.
Give each group 10 minutes with a white-boarding tool like Miro or Mural.
Ask volunteers from each group for a one-minute summary of the. main themes and insights.
Case study for the hiring committee.
Ask the candidate to read the chosen story.
Warm up the candidate by taking turns answering personal prompts to anchor products and services from the story in the context of your personal life experiences.
Use the set of professional prompts to help the candidate demonstrate their real experience and creative problem-solving skills in the context of a position you’re trying to fill.
Cross-functional discussion forum or Slack channel.
Post the weekly story with prompts.
Ask participants to post and upvote answers in the comments.
Facilitate discussion and knowledge by sharing the best ideas.
Build a forward-thinking culture that values innovation and continuous learning and helps new ideas thrive.