Upskilling for Futures-Ready Leadership with Greg Githens
What You Will Learn
Upon completion of this training, learners will be able to:
- Improve their team discussions and decision-making by recognizing anticipatory assumptions and emerging common sense.
- Recognize envisioning as a competency and practice its foundational micro skills.
- Enhance their ability to anticipate the unexpected and communicate it to others.
Description
The phrase futures-ready means that multiple futures exist (the ones we prefer, the ones that are probable, and the wild cards). When you are futures-ready in your personal leadership style, people will notice that your ways of working are more proactive and inclusive. Futures readiness contrasts with the defensive future-proof stance, which is based on a wish to avoid discomfort and retain the status quo.
When your organization practices futures readiness, it will result in more more-nuanced governance, flexibility and innovation, in addition to increased collaboration.
This personal leadership training is well suited for those who value looking beyond conventional thinking. Along with your peer learners, you will discover and apply a set of frameworks and practices that will increase your resilience and business acumen.
Prework
AGENDA
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- Futures ready versus futures proofed
- Business continuity as a balance of hardening, adaptation, and transformation
- Guiding attitude of futures ready leadership
- “Lean in” to the future and bounce forward
- Personal leadership and resilience
- Ordinary and extra-ordinary leadership
- Personal leadership and influencing skills
- Coordination
- Envisioning
- Developing micro skills and habits of mind
- What to do when you don’t know what to do
- Thinking strategically
- Upskilling anticipation
- Three types of anticipation
- Recognizing anchors of the status quo
- Speaking truth to power
- Better questions and conversations
- Using clean language questions
- Reframing strategic narratives
- Designing a pivot
- Creating options for growth and flexibility
- Call to action and wrap up
- What will you do differently?
- Resources
- Futures ready versus futures proofed
PDU Allocation Table
| Ways of Working | Power Skills | Business Acumen | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAPM® / PMI-CP™ / PMP® / PgMP® | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7.00 |
| PMI-ACP® / Agile* | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7.00 |
| PMI-SP® | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7.00 |
| PMI-RMP® | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7.00 |
| PfMP® | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7.00 |
| PMI-PBA® | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7.00 |
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Instructor(s)
Gregory D. Githens PMP
Greg Githens’ mission is to upskill individuals to make positive impact by delivering useful ideas and new perspectives. His engaging enthusiastic style has earned him the reputation as one of PMI’s most popular speakers.
Greg is the author of How to Think Strategically: Sharpen Your Mind. Develop Your Competency. Contribute to Success. This highly rated book explains that strategic thinking is an individual competency composed of 20 microskills. Because strategic thinking is rare and valuable, those who demonstrate it have more value to their organizations and are more promotable.
Greg has been a featured speaker at PMI congresses, PMI chapters, The Management Roundtable, and elsewhere. He holds a master’s degree in business administration from Bowling Green State University (USA) and a master’s degree from Miami University (USA).