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Wonder Works

Future Mindedness

Future-mindedness or prospection has two critical stages:
• Stage 1 Envision new possibilities for the future
• Stage 2 Turning possibilities into realities.
Future-Minded Leaders report 34% less anxiety and 35% less depression, but they're also more hopeful about the future, more productive, and have greater life satisfaction than those low in future-minded leadership skills. (Research from Better Up)
Wonder Works

Wonder Works is an engaging facilitated workshop to support building future mindedness skills to increase your team’s engagement, resilience, and creativity.
Leadership and team retreats allow people to reflect and learn the value of practices that cultivate presence — calm from the inside out—while improving your ability to focus, collaborate, and achieve fulfillment in your career.
Impact on organizations:increase engagement, enhanced productivity, improved retention, enhanced mental and physical wellbeing and reduced healthcare cost
49% of individuals say planning for the future “feels impossible.”

The world feels more unpredictable now. Change is a constant, and organizations will always need their people to flex and adapt to its rapid pace and unpredictability .
Sixty-three percent of Americans said they're stressed by uncertainty about what the next few months will bring, and 49% said that planning for their future feels impossible. Forty-two percent of Americans surveyed by the US Census Bureau reported symptoms of anxiety or depression in December 2020, an increase from 11% the previous year.
A New Mindset: Future Mindedness
These mental health issues come with a cost in our personal lives, relationships, and aspirations. They can also significantly impede the ability of our teams at work to execute strategy, be agile and collaborative and creative and adaptive.
New research from Better Up shows that envisioning and creating new outcomes is critically important for individual mental health and happiness as well as team performance, resilience, and innovation.
Thriving Teams

Teams led by someone high in future-mindedness have higher performance. They are more agile and engaged, more resilient, and take more risks as a team.. Teams are more innovative. Practicing future-mindedness opens up space for imaginative, opportunity-oriented thinking. They imagine, use curiosity and ask questions about what assumptions make a plan work and consider how events might cascade.
Work Better Together
Finally, those high in future-mindedness are more committed. The data show that people high in future-mindedness can see a future for themselves at their organization. This can with lower intentions to leave by a margin of 33%. Cultivating this mindset will be an advantage for companies to retain in-demand talent.