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New Year, New Foresight: Planning for 2026

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Yes! It's time for planning!

It’s that time of year again: closing out the books, locking down the holiday party, and marking the calendar for next year.  That means this is the perfect time to work out the timing of your organization’s foresight work for 2026.


Planning for 2026: the Process 

Keeping things simple, your leadership team’s process next year can follow three simple steps:

  1. Refresh Foresight

  2. Revisit Strategy

  3. Rollout Engagement

 

Let’s focus on #1, Refresh Foresight.  Assuming your team has some familiarity with formal foresight work, you could run with one of the following options.  If your team has not conducted any structured, formal foresight work in a while, we would recommend the 2-Day workshop to start, if not the Comprehensive Foresight Project.  If there have been some recent efforts (say, within the past year or so), then we would recommend something like a Foresight Playbook.

 

Refresh Foresight

  1. Foresight Playbook: a self-contained, DIY kit for leaders to run their own teams through structured scenario discussions.

  2. 2-Day 4 Steps to the Future Workshop: an intensive, 2-day workshop facilitated by VFS, producing your own, original scenarios and insights.

  3. Comprehensive Foresight Project: a 3-month, multi-phase project that sets up leadership teams for ongoing insights and applications.

 

Each of these options provides you with the content and process your team needs to update and refocus their discussions about the mid- to long-term future.

 

Now, stepping back, what would this look like on the calendar?  As an example, an organization could line out the following:

  1. February: 2-Day 4 Steps to the Future workshop

  2. March – April: Revisit Strategy

  3. May: Rollout Engagement

 

For everyone, in planning for 2026 there are a lot of variables to schedule around: board sessions, ELT meetings, and other ongoing planning and budgeting processes.  But, by thinking in terms of Refreshing Foresight, Revisiting Strategy, and Rolling Out Engagement, you can simplify the process of planning it all out for next year.

 

As always, contact us today to start penciling in your team’s foresight activities for 2026.

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