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Identify at least 2 drivers — trends or future forces — that may influence the future of belonging at work. Be prepared to share how these drivers of change connect to a challenge or opportunity for belonging at work in the next decade. Because thinking about drivers comprehensively can be challenging, we will use the heuristic STEEP to help us think comprehensively about a wide variety of factors shaping any given issue. STEEP stands for Social, Technological, Economic, Ecological, Political.
We will use these drivers to construct a landscape view of the external environment for belonging at work. Please include a link or reference to the source for your driver.
Signals
A foundational practice in futures thinking is signals scanning. A signal of change is typically a small or local innovation or disruption that has the potential to grow in scale and geographic distribution. A signal can be a new product, a new practice, a new market strategy, a new policy, or new technology. It can be an event, a local trend, or an organization. It can also be a recently revealed problem or state of affairs.
Signals are useful for people who are trying to anticipate a highly uncertain future. They tend to capture emergent phenomenon sooner than traditional social science methods. Use the form in the resources section below to share a signal related to belonging at work. Please submit each signal separately.
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January 11, 2021 5:30 PM (PST) → 6:30 PM
January 18, 2021 5:30 PM (PST) → 6:30 PM
January 25, 2021 5:30 PM (PST) → 6:30 PM
February 1, 2021 5:30 PM (PST) → 6:30 PM
February 8, 2021 5:30 PM (PST) → 6:30 PM
February 22, 2021 5:30 PM (PST) → 6:30 PM
March 1, 2021 5:30 PM (PST) → 6:30 PM
March 8, 2021 5:30 PM (PST) → 6:30 PM
March 15, 2021 5:30 PM (PDT) → 6:30 PM
March 22, 2021 5:30 PM (PDT) → 6:30 PM
Many of the narratives and stories reflecting the future of work reinforce a past and current reality of command and control hierarchies, extraction and exploitation of human potential and natural resources, and systemic oppression and exclusion that we don’t want to repeat. Yet current official futures of the future of work perpetuate these models, practices and concepts, informing and shaping our futures. We need to articulate the futures we want and need to create. How might our notions of work, careers, and organizations shift? What are the new narratives and stories needed to transform our understanding and practice of belonging at work over the next decade? What forces could contribute to a new vision for belonging at work? What forces could impede new approaches for thinking and organizing?
These sessions invite participants to step into a place of possibility and imagine alternative visions and stories for the future of belonging at work in the next decade that can inform our individual and collective experiences and break out of the prevailing narratives and norms. We hope to inspire new perspectives, actions, and collaborations by bringing together practitioners, thinkers and innovators committed to an alternative future for belonging at work. This project is a space for learning from lived experience, historical context and future dreams to systematically examine and envision belonging at work.
Participants will learn and practice the basics of “foresight,” a discipline that invites people to collaborate, confront dilemmas, overcome challenges, and imagine new possibilities for the future. Through facilitated discussion, group work and provocative exercises, the group will collectively explore levers of change, consider new narratives for belonging at work, and assess action toward more transformational, optimistic futures.
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