“The Applied Foresight Accelerator will introduce you to the tools to create that future you have been talking about. Now stop talking about it.”
– The Futures School Participant
Apply for the Next Cohort!
Southwest Cohort* | March 8-10, 2022
Application Due: Tuesday, February 1, 2022
*Please note, anyone can apply to this cohort regardless of geographic region as well as for any remaining cohorts (view all cohorts).
Built on a vision of developing learning experiences that help you to be “fueled by foresight” in all that you do – Transformation for Libraries: The Futures School is a unique training program presented in partnership with the CT State Library Division of Library Development and Kedge: The Futures School (TFS). It emerged from a growing realization among leaders and organizations that success in the 21st century landscape of rapid change means we must embrace new pathways to the future. In other words, we need to foster mindsets and skills that help us to seize untapped possibilities and opportunities.
Strategic foresight is a framework that creates multiple future scenarios, envisioning outcomes and evaluating current and pending strategies to support decision making and action in the present against a suite of possible futures. Participants will work with a library-specific focal issue to produce multiple scenarios for libraries 10-15 years in the future. Library staff will develop the skills to identify and capitalize on emerging trends, weak signals, and changing patterns through tangible models and reusable templates that allow them to apply their learnings immediately.
You are invited to participate in this IMLS grant funded project. With tangible results and a repeatable framework, you’ll be on your way to developing a foresight mindset and skillset, ensuring you are primed for market-leading innovation, successful opportunity development, and future-proofing intelligence. Ultimately, you will learn a strategic framework that enables you to continuously learn-unlearn-relearn to lead discussion and action in the transformation of libraries.
Learn more about Transformation for Libraries: The Futures School
This project was made possible by the Institute of Museum and Library Services grant #RE-250063-OLS-21 in the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program.
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The CAL Futurist Interest Group, in partnerships with the Colorado & Connecticut State Libraries, is proud to announce
an opportunity for 30 Colorado librarians to join a new 3-day live online developmental opportunity
Transformation for Libraries: Learning-Unlearning-Relearning Through Strategic Foresight
We seek academic, school, public, and special library folks from throughout Colorado to (no cost to you or your institution).
This is a rare opportunity to join cohorts from throughout the United States who are taking this training. Those who are selected will commit to engaging before, during, and after the October 20 – 22 intensive online workshops. This is a train-the-trainer model. Attendees, as part of their learning, will be asked to share with their library, their region, and/or the larger Colorado library community.
Built on a vision of developing learning experiences that help you to be “fueled by foresight” in all that you do – this unique training program is presented in partnership with Kedge and The Futures School. It emerged from a growing realization among leaders and organizations that success in the 21st century landscape of rapid change means we must embrace new pathways to the future. In other words, we need to foster mindsets and skills that help us to seize untapped possibilities and opportunities.
Watch Kedge Futures School Co-Founder Yvette Montero describe Strategic Foresight:
You’ll have the opportunity to participate in this pilot project. With tangible results and a repeatable framework, you’ll be on your way to developing a foresight mindset and skillset, ensuring you are primed for market-leading innovation, successful opportunity development, and revenue-generating futures intelligence. Ultimately, you will learn a strategic framework that enables them to continuously learn-unlearn-relearn to lead discussion and action in the transformation of libraries.
Recruitment Flyer: https://docsend.com/view/p6j36dtrnu5rcpr8
Application:
This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, grant # RE-95-17-0068-17.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston Churchill