Wait, why are we doing this?

Colleagues,

​Last week we looked at the role leaders have in articulating a shared vision and one of our colleagues shared the following (my bold italics):
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​This event actually started mostly as a fairly small "something to do" and never had a stated vision. Then it became a bigger thing to do, and a bigger thing to do...and I was the one left standing there to coordinate it after everybody else took a step backward. I have continually felt the need for a vision but never had an idea of how to wrangle the cats to uncover a shared one. I could perceive that there were a multiplicity of visions held by the different people, because everyone approached their portion of the work in ways that made the whole process very haphazard (and frustrating to ME). 

One part of this that's interesting is...I don’t' know if we COULD have had a vision at the beginning because so much has been uncovered in the doing of it that reveals more of what vision is needed - not sure that would have been evident at the beginning.

​ A vision describes what the world could look like if we successfully fulfilled our mission.
 
When someone asks me to do a training, I ask:

• What does a win look like?
• How will we know if we succeeded?

 
Essentially, I’m getting them to articulate a mission and a vision.
 
I cannot fully meet the organization’s needs without having clarity on these questions.
 
Try asking participants these two questions and see what happens.
 
I’m looking for ten people who are willing to commit to participating in a free five-day mini-course on how to lead a group in creating a shared vision. Let me know if you are interested by clicking here.
 
Cheers!
 
Frederick