Overview

This practical course is designed to help you develop the skills and confidence to anticipate change, identify emerging risks and opportunities, and support better decision‑making in government and public‑sector contexts.

Public‑sector organisations operate in increasingly complex and uncertain environments. Policy and delivery decisions must often be made with incomplete information, while responding to economic, social and technological change.

This course focuses on how to use scenario planning and horizon scanning to make sense of uncertainty, explore possible futures, and strengthen policy and strategy. You will work through practical approaches to identifying trends, assessing risks, and using structured techniques to inform decision‑making.

Who should attend?

This course is ideal for policy professionals, analysts, advisors, managers, and anyone in the public sector involved in strategy, planning or decision‑making.

It is particularly relevant for those working in policy development, strategy, risk, innovation, and transformation roles.

What You’ll Gain:

By attending this course, you will develop a practical and structured approach to anticipating change and planning for the future. You will learn to:

• Identify emerging trends and signals of change
• Understand the role of uncertainty in policy and strategy
• Apply structured horizon scanning techniques
• Develop and use scenarios to inform decision‑making
• Assess risks and opportunities across different futures
• Support better long‑term planning and policy outcomes

Course Timing

Currency & Pricing

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Testimonials

“The Scenario Planning and Horizon Scanning course brought a helpful combination of exercises, presented material and utilizing tools in relation to the topic” – Clinical Director, Department of Court Services, Government of Bermuda

“The right tone – and good balance between information we’re being given and trailing things out in breakouts” – Head of Risk and Assurance, Government Property Agency, United Kingdom

“The course helps compromise the framework for considerations as we are currently amending the Juvenile Act to make
provisions for a Juvenile & Family treatment court as well as a Domestic Violence Court. Being able to ask the right
questions that would allow us to identify and understand future challenges is critical” – Acting CMU Manager, Department of Court Services, Government of Bermuda

“I appreciated how the trainer shared the concepts, then gave us time to practice them using issues that are relevant to our
respective workplaces.” – Director, Department of Court Services, Government of Bermuda