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Developing Your Vision

Developing Your Vision. What do you want to see?. Vision. Leadership isn’t about being meek and small-minded. It’s about being bold and courageous. It’s about thinking big and envisioning possibility. Breeze and Carter. Vision.

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Developing Your Vision

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  1. Developing Your Vision What do you want to see?

  2. Vision • Leadership isn’t about being meek and small-minded. It’s about being bold and courageous. It’s about thinking big and envisioning possibility. • Breeze and Carter

  3. Vision • What kind of thinking was required thousands of years ago to create such structures as the great pyramids, or the Wall of China?

  4. Vision • Take a moment to refer to the self-assessment you did last class. How capable are you of doing the following tasks?

  5. Vision • 1. Seeing new ways of doing things • 2. Setting goals • 3. Dealing with ambiguity and unknown outcomes. • 4. Anticipating trends • 5. Seeing adversity as an opportunity for creativity. • 6.Challenging the way things are usually done. • 7.Stepping forward with courage.

  6. Vision • If you do not have the knack for visionary thinking, it will just take some practice. It might also require that you challenge your view of yourself. • Have the courage to think big and take responsible risks. The ideas will follow.

  7. Vision Consider the word vision. • What comes to mind? • The act of seeing? • A mental picture? • An idea?

  8. Vision • Webster’s II New Riverside Dictionary • “1. The faculty of sight. • 2.A mental image created by the imagination. • 3. The unusual ability in foreseeing what is going to happen.”

  9. Vision • Can you name a leader with exceptional visionary skills?

  10. Vision • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQQyIj-wDyg • “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Martin Luther King Vision is born from adversity and becomes the wings to fly above it.

  11. Vision Developing Your Vision • Keep your mind turned on and your eyes wide open. • Take a risk. • Learn all that you can. • Think about the future. • Dream big. • Don’t overlook small visions

  12. Develop your own visionary speech • Below are some questions that may help you develop your speech: • What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail? • Imagine you won the lottory and were required to spend half the money on a cause. Which cause would you choose? • What would you do if you only had one year to live? • What would you do if noone was watching you? • What would you do if everyone was watching you?

  13. Information taken from Breeze and Carter.

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