Inspire a shared vision

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Inspire a shared vision

• February 18,2008

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Introductory thoughts

• Where there is no vision, the people perish
  Proverbs 2918 (NIV)
• In the last days God says I will pour out my
  spirit on all people. Yours sons and daughters
  will prophesy, your young men will see visions,
  and your old men will dream dreams Acts 217
  (NIV)

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Introductory thoughts

• Visions are necessarily hyperbolic, unrealistic,
  and irresponsible. They express goals that have a
  rainbow quality. (David McArthur Wilson)

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A Vision from Within

• "Discovering the inner voice of the organization
  helps uncover a vision filled with resonance."
• (Deep Change Robert Quinn 1996 Jossey-Bass)

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Vision, Empowerment, and Growth

• "The most enduring way to communicate your vision
  is to live it."
• From The Tao of Personal Leadership Diane
  Dreher 1996 HarperBusiness

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Communicating the Change Vision

• "A verbal picture is worth a thousand
  words."From Leading Change John Kotter 1996
  Harvard Business School Press

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• Use Communication and Conviction to Keep
  Followers "The task of a leader is to communicate
  clearly and repeatedly the organization's vision,
  strategy, goals, and objectives, and to
  communicate its values, mission, purpose, and
  principles."From Leadership A to Z James
  O'Toole 1999 Jossey-Bass

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• Leaders are possibility thinkers (KP)
• Visions communicate what makes us singular and
  unequaled they set us apart from everyone else.
• Vision from the leader keeps the organization
  focused.

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Elements

• Inspiration
• articulation
• planting
• nurturing
• Inspired shared vision

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Starting from self

• Knowing yourself
• Knowing God
• Knowing your context
• Knowing good advise

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• Defining and Creating a Personal Vision "A
  vision must be consistent with the mission, core
  objectives, and strategy of the company it
  depicts."From Right From the Start Dan Ciampa
  1999 Harvard Business School Press

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Barna 9 acts of visionary leadership

• Understand the concept
• Understand the content
• Own the vision
• Make it real
• Pass it around
• Sell it
• Put it into action
• Refine the vision
• Reinforce the vision

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Steps to creating a vision

• Know your constituents
• Find the common ground
• Draft a collective vision statement
• Breathe life into your vision
• Speak from the heart
• Listen first and after
• Hang out

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Evaluating a vision

• An effective vision attracts commitment and
  energizes people
• An effective vision creates meaning for followers
• An effective vision establishes a standard for
  excellence
• An effective vision bridges the past and the
  future

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Change and Vision

• The change equation is one model I use - there
  are different versions of this around but I use
  one I have used for years as a useful way into
  the barriers and blocks to change. I know it as
  ABCgtD for change to take place. (A desire for
  change, B the vision of how it could be, C
  knowledge of the steps needed all need to be
  greater than D status quo, inertia for change to
  take place)

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Change and Vision

• Another version of the change equation (Beckhard
  Harris in 'Managing Complex Change' 1987) is
  f (V, D, S)gtR Where Vvision of future. D
  Dissatisfaction with present, Sknowing the first
  steps to take Rthe cost of change. William
  Bridges work (see 'Managing Transitions - making
  the most of change' 1991 and Managing
  Organizational Transitions) on the dynamics of
  change v transition is also useful.

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Charles Handy on Warren Bennis

• http//www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/
  work/handy/bennis.shtml

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