02/16/2024

Include a Commitment to Foresight in Your New Year Resolutions

Foresight is a critical component of business leadership

How are you progressing on your 2024 resolutions? Are you still on target? Consider adding to your personal and organizational resolutions a commitment to take a step on your foresight journey.

Foresight is a critical component of business leadership with specific language and processes. The practice of foresight requires the use of a thought process that pushes your view out further than your existing strategic plan.

You, your staff and your organization's volunteer leaders will start to think about how the association will operate and who will engage with it 10 years out. Foresight is not the same as following trends. Though knowledge of trends is helpful, it only tells you what people are doing in the present, not what you may need to know to prepare for the future. Integrating discussions of how clusters of trends are expected to drive change allows volunteer leaders and staff to create a vision or a scenario of how this change could impact their organization and/or members.

Please select this link to read the complete article from ASAE’s Center for Association Leadership.