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Our training offerings reflect our commitment to transfer and spread scenario planning tools and methodologies to organizations and individuals intent on shaping the future. In both our public courses and in our customized, onsite programs, you learn directly from senior GBN practitioners in an interactive, experiential format.

Current training services include:

Developing and Using Scenarios (DUS)

Public and Onsite Courses [See Schedule]

GBN's primary training course introduces participants to all the basics of scenario planning, including identifying the focal question, data gathering and interviewing, generating storylines and logics, developing and presenting rich and challenging scenarios, and using scenarios to inform strategic conversations. Participants learn by applying the techniques and tools of scenario planning to real-life strategic questions.

GBN offers onsite, customized Developing and Using Scenarios courses for 10 or more participants from an organization. We also run an open enrollment training course for individuals several times a year.

Scenarios to Strategy

Onsite Only

GBN's three-day, advanced training course is for strategists and managers who are already familiar with scenarios and want to build their organization's internal scenario planning capacity. The course covers initiating and managing scenario projects, using scenarios to generate strategic options, and testing and refining strategies through a scenaric lens.

Scenarios to Strategy is only available as an onsite program for 10 or more participants; no public course is offered.

Leaders of the Future

Onsite Only

In this unique, four-day session, high-potential young leaders are brought together in an intensive learning experience to think collaboratively about the future of organizations and work and to explore their own leadership potential within that context.

Leaders of the Future is only available as an onsite program; no public course is offered.

For more information and registration

For our public Developing and Using Scenarios course, contact dus@gbn.com.

For onsite DUS, Scenarios to Strategy, and Leaders of the Future courses, contact info@gbn.com.

Beyond Social Networks: Clay Shirky (Podcast)

GBN in Conversation with Clay Shirky—author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations—on how and why new communications tools are enabling newfound conversation and coordinated action at little or no cost. (April 22, 2008) http://208.100.11.27/~gbn/mp3s/

The Future of Independent Media

This GBN report examines the dramatic changes that the field of independent media is experiencing and how the reverberations will be felt across every organization that uses media to communicate, connect, and create.