Forecasting Skills: See the Future Before it Happens

For many people, facing the future is a surprise, if not a shock. Strong predicting abilities, on the other hand, can help you avoid future shocks. Adapting faster permits you to reap the benefits of a change sooner. This training will help you improve your predicting abilities.

In this forecasting course, you will:

• Collect and analyze signals of change.
• Identify and analyze global drivers of change.
• Combine Signals and Drivers into Future Forecasts.
• Write scenarios that tell a story about your future forecast.

You'll learn how to transform groupings of signals (future forecasting cues) and drivers (global factors determining change direction) into reliable future forecasts. Forecasts are designed to assist you in discovering new possibilities and chances for yourself, your organization, or the community you wish to inspire to improve the future. Practicing forecasting abilities will help you better predict the future. As a consequence, you will be able to contemplate ideas that others would not. You will assist others in adapting to and preparing for the future. You'll also learn how to write future scenarios. Scenarios take forecasts one step further. They spark imagination and tell a story about what might happen if a forecast comes true. Scenarios help you evaluate: "Is this a future I'm ready for?" Is this the future I want?'

Leading futurists from the Institute for the Future will show you exactly how it's done. They'll share with you the forecasts and scenarios they’re most excited about right now, and walk you through the key steps they took to create them. Then, it's your turn! You'll create a forecast and a scenario on any future topic you choose. How will you benefit from taking this course? With strong forecasting skills, you'll get better at seeing the future before it happens. You'll be ready to consider possibilities that others never see coming or refuse to accept. You'll be able to help others prepare for and adapt to the future. You can decide which futures you want to make more likely, and which futures you want to prevent.

This course offers:

• Flexible deadlines
• Earn a certificate upon completion.
• 100% online
• Beginner Level
• Approximately 13 hours to complete.
• Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish

Coursera rating: 4.8/5

Enroll here: https://www.coursera.org/learn/forecasting-skills