What if aliens teleported away all your employees?
Obviously, this isn’t realistic, but scenario planning can be a crucial benefit for your organization.
Looking at some of the challenges you currently face, such as have one person that handles a crucial job, or having limited access to people who can do important work that your company does. It’s situations like these that lend themselves to scenario planning.
In the example of someone one deep in a critical position, your scenario could be that that individual just got hit by the “lottery bus.” It’s great to take that concept and put it in front of your executive team. This allows them to really think about what they need to do to protect themselves from failure if something like that were to happen.
A lot of times businesses don’t think about what could happen, and these are the kind of things that really bite them in the butt when they do happen. Often, it’s things that were fine when you started business but now are making your life difficult.
Thinking about these scenarios is very helpful from a planning perspective. Make sure that you keep scenario planning realistic (i.e., not aliens stealing employees). I encourage you to add it to your business planning.