Motivate employees, align stakeholders, and guide strategic decision-making by learning how to move beyond traditional vision statements towards meaningful, actionable visions. Through practical frameworks for strategic foresight, future-back planning, scenario thinking, and big idea generation, you'll discover how successful organizations anticipate disruption and create lasting competitive advantage.

Generating Vision: Long-Term Ideas to Motivate Stakeholders
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Generating Vision: Long-Term Ideas to Motivate Stakeholders

Instructor: Daniel Forrester
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What you'll learn
Develop compelling long-term visions that align teams, motivate stakeholders, and guide strategic decision-making.
Apply strategic foresight, future-back planning, and scenario thinking to anticipate change and drive innovation.
Differentiate vision from mission and communicate a shared future that inspires action and long-term growth.
Skills you'll gain
- Strategic Communication
- Stakeholder Communications
- Strategic Leadership
- Forecasting
- Stakeholder Management
- Corporate Strategy
- Team Motivation
- Business Priorities
- Employee Retention
- Leadership
- Product Roadmaps
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Innovation
- Ideation
- Thought Leadership
- Organizational Strategy
- Business Strategy
- Brainstorming
- Organizational Leadership
- Strategic Thinking
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25 assignments
Taught in English
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