PREFERRED FUTURE

-Rachelle Tengco-

PREFERRED FUTURING by Ronald Lippitt and Ed Lindaman

Preferred Futuring is one key for leaders and managers to involve everyone in the system more extensively in focusing the whole team in strategic direction, planning to action, and in improving the development of every breakthrough solutions. It is also a way to rally every action for planned change where its purpose is to align the created strategic direction of a company to its specific future of success. Furthermore, it’s for developing an actual plan for the project team which should be supported by members.

This process usually consists of all the participants in the organizational teams and its total number of participants may range from five hundred to a thousand wherein the CEO should firstly be engage. Furthermore, twenty stakeholders plus one or two facilitators are also included in the preparation phase of this process. After the preparation process, Preferred Futuring happens for two or three days. Every step in the process is said to take for about forty to forty five minutes.

8 Steps of Preferred Futuring

1. History

2. Current State

3. Core Values and Beliefs

4. Events, Trends, and Developments

5. Preferred Future Vision

6. Action Goals

7. Plan and Rehearse

8. Implement and Follow Up

The condition for success in this kind of process is that the data for this process of change should be collected and analyzed so that it can be validated and make corrections if necessary. Furthermore, there should be an ongoing support function plus monitoring for this process must continue.

In this process, there are times when you can use Preferred Futuring and when not to use it. So it is said that this can be used for incorporating priorities, strategic planning processes, developing work design that would suit the stakeholders needs, and for setting up the priorities of the system. On the other hand, it is said that it can’t be used when members of the organization does not want to let go of some of the existing values and that they would rather await what could happen given what the current situation is.

REFLECTION:

I think this process is an effective planning and visioning process for it creates direction to align to a particular success in the future. Furthermore, it involves everyone in the organizational system which shows how the organization comes together for everybody’s success in their working environment and that it shows unity in their company.

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