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What Is Your Vision?. VISION: A DEFINITION. “…a vision is a realistic, credible, attractive, future for your organization.” - Nanus. VISION. CHARACTERISTICS. Simple Worthwhile A Living Document Deals With Quality and Dedication What You and Your Colleagues/Team Want to Create.
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VISION:A DEFINITION “…a vision is a realistic, credible, attractive, future for your organization.” - Nanus
VISION CHARACTERISTICS Simple Worthwhile A Living Document Deals With Quality and Dedication What You and Your Colleagues/Team Want to Create Provides Meaning Idealistic Considers Concerns and Needs Uses Language of Stakeholders Implementation Respects Time
VISIONS AND STRATEGIC PLANS: A COMPRISON Strategic Plans -Directional -Linear -Reaction to Trends -Forward to the Future -How to Get There -Complete Plan -Secret Visions -End is Stated -Holistic -Desire to Create -Backward From the Future -Unclear How to Get There -Vision Language -Public
VISIONS: SOME SAMPLES Apple Computer Hard Rock Café -”To make a contribution to the world by making tools for the mind that advance humankind.” -”Love all, serve all.”
ANOTHER VISION • Bread Loaf Construction -”We are a family, empowered by the strength of our people; we seek challenges, we focus upon employee wellness and community responsibility.”
VISION: AMERICAN SOCIETY OF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT • “We are the world leader in workplace learning and performance • We help set direction for new explorations on the frontiers for learning and development • The workforces of the world perform better because of our leadership
VISION: THE LEADER’S ROLE • Create a Vision Framework • Set a Collaborative Planning Process to Co-Create the Future • Communicate the Vision to Stakeholders • Get Stakeholder Commitment • Model the Vision
VISION: SUCCESS FACTORS Stakeholders Included From the Beginning Steering Committee Fair and Balanced Open and Visible Consensus Based An Educational Process
VISION: STEERING COMMITTEE ROLE Design an open, inclusive process Initial Role: Facilitative Ultimately: -Final Drafters -Consensus Builders
CREATING A VISION: SOME GUIDING QUESTIONS • What kind of organization are we? • What Kind of organization do we want to become? • What do we really want to create? • What would be worth committing to over the next five or ten years? • How are we different from other similar organizations? • What are the right things to do?
PERSONAL VISION: CONSIDERATIONS Self Relationships Work Life Health Recreation
IMPLEMENTING A VISION: SOME QUESTIONS What is our role bringing about change and renewal? How do we manage the short term while creating the long term? How and when will changes take place? Who will lead in each area?
THE HIGHER PURPOSE OF VISION “A vision is powerful because it speaks directly to the heart--to unconscious yearnings to be great, to serve, to make a difference, to be involved in something meaningful, to pursue a dream, to achieve a higher purpose…” Fusion Leadership
NEXT STEPS… • More training on process (Series) • Work on the vision framework • Use the accordion process • Have vision work hand-in-hand with the mission • Get the right people on the bus and the wrong people off the bus