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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
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How to assess history, current realities, and future trends
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Ways to quickly gather stakeholder input from staff, customers, or community members
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Techniques for synthesizing group knowledge and data to create shared understanding
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How to choose the right environmental scanning method for the situation
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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:
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Business & Team Leaders
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Business and team leaders
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Local, state, and federal leaders and program managers
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Change managers and organizational developers
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Facilitators, trainers, and consultants
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Community organizers and coalition builders
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Community planners and civic engagement professionals
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Anyone seeking to lay a strong foundation for strategic thinking and action
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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