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The Leadership Challenge

Practice 2: Inspire a Shared Vision

Team 2:

Antonio Jackson

Jon Matthews

Nancy Norris

Sid Sowers

Wanda White

Georgina Zayas-DeCouto

  • People commit to what they believe in
  • People want to see their own visions and aspirations realized

Inspire a Shared Vision

Enlist Others

Appeal to Common Ideals

Imagine the Possibilities

Envision the Future

Align Your Dream with Others' Dreams

Connect to What's Meaningful to Others

Envision the Future

Enlist Others

Leaders are forward-looking, see the future and its opportunities, and can tie their vision to others' aspirations.

Change is best accomplished when others share the vision, fervently commit, and are inspired to act by their leader's passion.

The Human Brain

Forward-looking

Leaders vs. Non-leaders

  • Appeal to people's ideals
  • Move their souls
  • Uplift their spirits
  • Exemplified by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Communicate this shared vision that they can make a difference

Take Pride in Being UNIQUE

Arouse the belief that people can achieve "something amazing"

Liberate the vision that is already within people

So, how can you, as a leader, unlock your imagination?

  • Reflect on Your Past
  • Attend to the Present
  • Prospect the Future
  • Feel Your Passion
  • Differentiate and set apart
  • Communicate "singular and unequaled"
  • Foster a sense of pride
  • Feel unique
  • Playing a crucial role
  • Get excited about signing on
  • Internet challenge

Essential Elements:

  • Imagine the Possibilities
  • Find a Common Purpose
  • Leaders enlist others to commit to a grand cause by building "common ground" based on shared ideals.

How?

  • Connect to What's Meaningful to Others
  • Take Pride in Being Unique
  • Align your Dream with the People's

Focus is on winning hearts and minds

Essential Elements:

  • Appeal to Common Ideals
  • Animate the Vision

Keys to Success in Enlisting Others

BraveHeart speech

  • Imagine Possibilities
  • Reflect on Your Past
  • Attend to the Present
  • Prospect the Future
  • Feel Your Passion
  • Find a Common Purpose
  • Listen Deeply to Others
  • Make it a Cause for Commitment
  • Look Forward in Time of Change
  • Appeal to Common Ideals
  • Connect What's Meaningful
  • Take Pride in Being Unique
  • Align Your Dream with Others'
  • Animate the Vision
  • Use Symbolic Language
  • Create Images of the Future
  • Practice Positive Communication
  • Express Your Emotions
  • Speak Genuinely

Leaders are.....

- dreamers

- idealists

- possibility thinkers

For many leaders, the answers don't come easily--at first.

  • Speak about meaning and purpose
  • Show them how their dreams will be realized
  • Connect your message to their values, aspirations, experiences and lives
  • Show them that it's about them and their needs
  • Create an enlivening influence rooted in values, traditions, and convictions

Characteristics of a Forward-Looking Leader

  • Use words to create positive images of the future
  • Bring the vision to life
  • Connect the inspiring vision of the future and the personal aspirations and passions of the people
  • Create a compelling image of how people can realize their dreams by enlisting in the shared vision

Imagine the Possibilities

Imagine the Possibilities

Reflecting on your past

Prospect the Future

Feel Your Passion

  • Look to your past and your future for guidance
  • The Janus Effect
  • The ability to look to the past for guidance opens up future opportunities (“Janus Effect").
  • A leader should be able to “see the forest and the trees,” recognizing patterns for future action.
  • The great leader should also be passionate about their vision.

Essential Skills:

  • Think strategically about what ifs
  • Listen carefully to others' aspirations
  • Articulate passion for a shared vision
  • Walk the talk; set an example
  • An exemplary leader is able to envision the future; they act as the organizations “futures department.”
  • “Think several moves ahead...” A great imagination according to Einstein is more important than great intelligence.
  • A great organizational leader gets others to embrace their vision.
  • The successful leader motivates others to make sacrifices.
  • A great vision has meaning to the whole group.
  • A leader must inspire others to “walk" them in the vision building process.
  • The great leader is a great listener.

Essential Skills:

  • Communicating passion for the vision
  • Understanding perspectives of others
  • Maintaining openness
  • Skill in persuasion, conflict resolution, coaching
  • Self motivation vs. external motivation
  • Exemplary leaders have passion
  • Passionate leaders ignite passion in others

Look out for emerging developments:

technology, demographics, economics, politics, arts, and etc.

Strategic Leaders

  • Time orientation is long term and more future oriented

Activity Part one

Attend to the Present

Assessing Organizational Strengths

What are the....

  • needs and wants?
  • things that get in the way?
  • things that need to be changed?

Activity Part Two

Imagining Organizational Opportunities

Find a Common Purpose

Involve others in creating the vision

Leaders Give Voice by Listening

Listen Deeply to Others

Share

Animate the Vision

Needs

Questions

Common Interests

Create

Engage

Ideas

Establish Common Good

Leaders are Expected:

  • To be forward thinking
  • To share their vision of the future with others
  • To build consensus and support for the vision.

How can you, as a leader, find common ground?

  • Listen deeply to others
  • Make it a cause for commitment
  • Look forward in times of change

Make it a cause for commitment

Look Forward in Times of Rapid Change

  • Change
  • Common Values
  • Desire to Make a Difference

Leaders help others see and feel how personal aspirations align with the vision. How?

  • Using symbolic language
  • Creating images of the future
  • Practicing positive communication
  • Expressing emotions
  • Speaking genuinely

Animate the Vision

Positivity

Practice positive communication

Lean on Me

Use symbolic language

"We sink, we swim, we rise, we fall, we meet our fate together."

Animate the Vision by breathing life into it

Dangerous Minds

Leaders must engage others with positivity and passion, regardless of setbacks and obstacles

"How'd they get you to stay?

They gave me candy and called me their light."

  • Leaders must articulate the vision using evocative metaphors and symbols

Express your emotions

Expressions

Get Really Symbolic

Verbal and non-verbal communication

Leaders must articulate the vision verbally and non-verbally--like a performance art.

Create images of the future

speak genuinely

  • Leaders must draw on the mental process of creating images using their words

Passion, excitement, and determination must emanate from the leader's core belief in the vision.

Genuineness

Paint a Vision Statement

If you believe it, it becomes contagious

Kraft Foods: Helping People Around the World Eat and Live Better

Wal-Mart: Saving people money to help them live better

Zappos: One day, 30% of all retail transactions in the US will be online. People will buy from the company with the best service and the best selection. Zappos.com will be that online store.

Older vision statements:

Nike (1960): Crush Adidas

Honda (1970): We will destroy Yamaha

http://www.skills2lead.com/sample-vision-statements.html

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