What is foresight and how is it different from a forecast. 

Establish your current position on the "Decision Making Spectrum" and identify the behaviors associated with each position. 

Identify the changes that would be necessary in our thinking and decision making styles to help us move to the next level along the decision making spectrum

Distinguish between their focal and peripheral vision and identify where each end and the other starts

Look back to look forward. Able to analyze how large drivers of change, many of which are still active today, came together to create unexpected futures.

Able to Identify, define and catalogue weak signals arising in our peripheral vision.

Triangulate data to better understand the periphery: if the periphery is confusing, look at it from different angles

Able to use the "Layered timeline approach tool" to recognize, patterns, cycles, and chances from the past and recognize similar patterns in the current environment. 

Identify and articulate the "Business Idea" in terms of specific value offered to customers. 

Define your focal issue - that is what really is the question you are asking about the future and Frame the future conversation that is ask what aspects of the future do you want to investigate and understand better.