PreMortem
Analysis
Learn how to uncover the pathways that lead to failure so that you can avoid them.
What This Workshop Delivers
PreMortem Analysis is a powerful tool designed to help you understand the ways your plans can fail — in order to ensure that they don’t. Identify failure pathways, develop mitigating actions, and establish the signposts that tell you when to change course.
Who Is This For?
Decision makers and planners who want to develop and execute more effective strategies in today’s complex and rapidly changing world.
What Will I Gain?
A thorough understanding of PreMortem Analysis and the ways you can use it to make better decisions faster in today’s complex world.
What You’ll Walk Away With
A structured, repeatable process — and the confidence to run PreMortem sessions with your own team immediately after the workshop.
Why PreMortem Analysis Matters
Most teams review what went wrong after a plan fails. PreMortem Analysis flips that logic on its head — imagining failure before it happens, so you can prevent it.
PreMortem Analysis
Originally developed by our colleague Dr. Gary Klein, the RTT method expands on his original approach to identify the individual steps that can lead a strategy to fail — and to develop specific mitigating actions to prevent those failures from occurring.
At the same time, the RTT method highlights signposts of change to watch for — early indicators that your plan is not headed in the desired direction, so you can correct your course before it’s too late.
What You’ll Learn
- How to imagine a plan has already failed and systematically work backwards to identify why
- A structured method for uncovering the individual steps that lead to strategic failure
- How to develop specific mitigating actions for each failure pathway you identify
- How to define signposts of change — the early warning indicators that tell you a plan is going off course
- A repeatable process you can run with your own team from the very next session
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