Mind Challenge Index

  1. 1

    • Foresight

    • Guidelines CoachingOurselves Module

    • Facilitator notes

    • Management Happenings (10 min.)
  2. 2

    • Topic Overview (3 min.)
  3. 3

    • What is Foresight? (5 min.)

    • The Consequences of a Lack of Foresight (3 min.)

    • The Causes of Oversight Leading to Perceptual Blindness (10 min.)

    • Group Exercise (15 min.)

    • Strategies for Cultivating Foresight (2 min.)

    • Cultivating Peripheral Awareness (8 min.)

    • Seeking Latent Potential (10 min.)

    • Seeking Otherness (5 min.)

    • Seeking Otherness: The Paris ‘Sewer System’ (5 min.)

    • Recognizing “Thinking Becoming” (5 min.)

    • Doing Differently (5 min.)

  4. 4

    • Wrap up (5 min.)

    • That's it!

    • Reading and References

Instructor(s)

Professor

Robert Chia

Robert Chia is Research Professor of Management at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow. He is a respected and well-established academic and consultant who spent 16 years in aircraft engineering, human resources and senior manufacturing management positions prior to entering academia. His research interests and expertise are in strategic foresight, creative thinking, and cross-cultural management. He has authored and edited five books, including more recently Strategy without Design and Philosophy and Organization Theory