Organizations and societies can continue to move toward the future because they have dreams and hopes. Dreams and visions are the driving force that create the future. Create a vision in your mind and clarify why it is important to you (=leader). It is your role to make it clear to your colleagues who share that vision why it is important to them.
1. general framework for “shared vision”
Steps to envision the future (flow of “your own” contemplation)
Look back at the past, understand the current situation, imagine the future, and discover your passion.
Finding a common purpose with members (dialogue that “you” have with them)
Share the drastically changing environment, Listen, carefully, Set high aspirations, Inspire
2. practices to evoke a “common vision”
- Reflect on past experiences and contemplate the central themes of your life and your own values.
- Be curious about what is happening around you. Look at what is not going particularly well.
- Spend time thinking about and exploring the future.
- Identify what drives you, what you feel passionate about.
- Make a list of what you want to accomplish and ask yourself why.
- Explore the harmony between your priorities and what society wants.
- Long before the project is finished, keep thinking, “What will happen next..”?
- Ask the people around you and the members of your team what they want the future to look like.
- Involve members in the process of developing a common purpose and vision.
- Create an atmosphere in which members can speak freely about their dreams and visions.
- Talk about the relationship between you and the members as equals and mutually inspiring.
- Connect your own hopes and dreams with the hopes and dreams of the members.
- Share your perceptions of where you are headed and the means by which you will get there.
- Transform your “job” into a “mission” for you and all the members.
A vision does not reside in the hands of a single leader of an organization; it becomes an “organizational vision” only when it exists firmly as a “shared vision” among all members.
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