Visioneering is designed for businesses, work teams & groups and individuals.
A powerful vision is the force that drives everything in extraordinarily successful businesses. A powerfully shared vision creates:
- Increased commitment, motivation, excitement and energy directed at a common purpose.
- Risk-taking, creativity, innovation, and experimentation towards the organizations' envisioned future.
- A foundation for extraordinary human efforts.
- Exceptional bottom-line performance.
- Cohesion and teamwork
- Arouses a sense of uniqueness of individual, group, and organizational contribution
- Increased loyalty & pride
- Focus & clarity
- An environment where aspirations are elevated as work takes on greater meaning
- An awareness and dedication of the competencies that distinguish the organization, what it stands for, and where it is headed
- A context within which workers at all levels make decisions
- A measure that can be used to evaluate both individual worth and the organization's value to society.
"Become the most powerful, the most serviceable, the most far-reaching world financial institution that has ever been. (City Bank, predecessor to Citicorp, 1915)"
"Become the company most known for changing the worldwide poor-quality image of Japanese products. (Sony, early 1950s)"
"To give unlimited opportunity to women. (Mary Kay Cosmetics)"
"To make technical contributions for the advancement and welfare of humanity. (Hewlett-Packard)"
"A computer on every desk and in every home, all running Microsoft software. (Bill Gates)"
"Creativity, dreams, and imagination. To make people happy. (Walt Disney)"
"Service to the customer above all else. (Nordstrom)"
"Service, Cleanliness, Quality, Values. (McDonald's)"
A powerfully shared vision allows businesses to:
- Identify opportunities not seen by other organizations
- Exploit opportunities that other organizations can not
- Be future-oriented and ambitious
- Set high standards for productivity and quality
- Be the benchmark by which others measure themselves
- Create business opportunity where none previously existed.
Vision and the bottom-line:
James Collins and Jerry Porras in their research found that companies with powerful visions out performed the general stock market by a factor of 12 since 1925.
"Companies that enjoy enduring success have core values and a core purpose ("a powerful vision") that remain fixed while their business strategies and practices endlessly adapt to a changing world."
- Allows quantum leaps, rather than gradual progress.
- Facilitates the speed at which things can be accomplished.
- Maximizes resources, both financial & human.
- Opens doors to new opportunities.
- Opens door for self expression within the team.
- Excellent environment to make the impossible happen.
- FUN magnified by the number of people in a group (experience the difference between laughing alone & laughing with others).
- Allows quantum leaps, rather than gradual progress.
- Opportunity for self expression at its highest level.
- Educational, learn from others and contribute to others.
- Opportunity to experience one's humanness - be vulnerable, not have all the answers, and not be responsible for having all the answers.
- Personal growth, venue to experience what it means to have integrity, the power of having integrity and the impact it has on you & others.
- A big, bold, powerful vision which is alive and present throughout your business.
- How to BE that Vision, individually, in work teams, and corporately.
- Support to make your vision a reality.
- Learn how to implement vision on-goingly.
- A committed, motivated, dedicated work force, making a difference wherever they are.
- Increased aliveness with the freedom to create possibility and inspire greatness.
- Awaken leadership in every person in the company.
