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Description

Approaches to Environmental Scanning Course

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Understanding Your Current Reality

Before charting a path forward, successful groups must understand where they’re starting from. The Environmental Scanning course equips you with the tools to uncover key internal and external dynamics that shape any planning effort.

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This one-day, hands-on course introduces a rich toolkit of 10 dynamic, creative methods for assessing your environment. Whether you're working with a team, organization, or community, you’ll learn how to quickly surface stakeholder perceptions, identify current challenges, interpret relevant data, and spot emerging trends.

 

You’ll walk away with a practical, customizable “recipe book” of techniques you can return to again and again because no two planning contexts are the same.

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Get Grounded. Get Aligned. Get Ready

Join us to expand your facilitation toolkit and bring clarity, creativity, and focus to your group’s planning process. Whether you're preparing for a strategic planning session or launching a new initiative, Environmental Scanning helps you start from a place of shared understanding.

What You Will Learn

  • How to assess history, current realities, and future trends

  • Ways to quickly gather stakeholder input from staff, customers, or community members

  • Techniques for synthesizing group knowledge and data to create shared understanding

  • How to choose the right environmental scanning method for the situation

  • Practical skills to ground teams in their current reality and build readiness for strategic planning

Prerequisites:

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ToP® Facilitation Methods or Focused Conversation or Focused Conversation Online are required.

This course is applicable to:

  • Business & Team Leaders

  • Business and team leaders

  • Local, state, and federal leaders and program managers

  • Change managers and organizational developers

  • Facilitators, trainers, and consultants

  • Community organizers and coalition builders

  • Community planners and civic engagement professionals

  • Anyone seeking to lay a strong foundation for strategic thinking and action

Upcoming Courses

  • Thu, Jun 04
    Alexandria, VA
    Jun 04, 2026, 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
    Alexandria, VA
    Explore 10 creative, insightful tools to understand customer, staff or community perceptions and needs, delve into relevant data, and get groups on the same page to launch their work.
  • Tue, Jun 09
    Atlanta
    Jun 09, 2026, 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
    Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, USA
    Explore 10 creative, insightful tools to understand customer, staff or community perceptions and needs, delve into relevant data, and get groups on the same page to launch their work.
  • Wed, Jun 24
    Asheville, NC
    Jun 24, 2026, 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
    Asheville, NC, 26 Meadow Rd Asheville NC 28803
    Explore 10 creative, insightful tools to understand customer, staff or community perceptions and needs, delve into relevant data, and get groups on the same page to launch their work.
  • Wed, Sep 30
    Atlanta
    Sep 30, 2026, 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
    Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, USA
    Explore 10 creative, insightful tools to understand customer, staff or community perceptions and needs, delve into relevant data, and get groups on the same page to launch their work.
  • Thu, Nov 05
    Asheville, NC
    Nov 05, 2026, 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
    Asheville, NC, 26 Meadow Rd Asheville NC 28803
    Explore 10 creative, insightful tools to understand customer, staff or community perceptions and needs, delve into relevant data, and get groups on the same page to launch their work.

Pricing

Corporate & Large Non Profit (budget > $5 million)  |  $800

Public/Government   |  $700

Individual Professional & Mid-Sized Non Profit (budget > $1-5 million)  |  $600

Small Non Profit (budget < $1 million) & Student (Student ID Required)  |  $500

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