How do you have an active influence over your future?
Did you know that you really can play a part in creating the kind of future for yourself that you could previously only imagine?
Towards the end of last week's episode, Ray began talking about his concept of the Four Approaches to the Future, as it relates to transformation- both for individuals and for organizations. On this episode we focus on what we call the Four Approaches to the Future. This is a concept that Ray has used for year and has daily application for everyone. These are theoretical tools that have a practical application for every individual. Listen in today to find out how you can get unstuck and shift your approach to the future to one that you'd really prefer to have.
The Four Approaches to the Future is a really powerful tool. It forms a framework for the way that you look at the world and for the way that you make choices and decisions in your life. We're really excited to be sharing this with you today because it can be used by individuals looking to transform and change their approach to life, and also by organizations, to help them to dig deep and think about the way that they intend to approach the future. Listen in today to find out all about The Four Approaches to the Future and how they can really help you to transform your life, or your organization.
Show Highlights:
- Ray gives an overview of The Four Approaches to the Future.
- How the Four Approaches to the Future can help in dealing with change.
- Ray explains that the first approach is reactive, based on stimulus-response.
- A reactionary response is a very common way of dealing with change.
- The first approach may be the most important approach because its outcome is survival, but it has its limitations.
- The second approach, called the responsive approach, is similar to the first approach.
- The difference between the responsive and reactive approaches is a pause.
- The importance of the quality of the pause that precedes a response.
- The third approach is the pro-active approach.
- The pro-active approach is anticipating the future before it arrives so that you will be ready to deal with it.
- The inventive approach is the fourth approach to the future.
- The fourth approach is based on the assumption that we can influence the future by envisioning it and then acting on what we envision.
- Looking at the percentage of your time that you give to each of the four responses, realizing that they all have value.
- The proactive and the inventive approaches are both strategic in nature, whereas the reactive and the responsive approaches are operational.
- The cyclical nature of the process.
- How having a vision can start changing your reactions.
- The change takes place in our actions.
- How Ray makes use of The Four Approaches to the Future when working in an organizational context.
- Ray shares a few stories about how some organizations have used the four approaches to help them to initiate change.
Links:
You can find out more about the work Ray does at www.thegenysysgroup.com
You can find Amy at www.theartofpoweringdown.com
Our online course for Strategic Futuring will be released soon!
