Vision to build your dream

I am currently preparing a training programme for a software development company. This time, the aim is to unite all team members of the start-up under a vision that makes it possible to work in an agile and collaborative customer-centred way.

When thinking about visions, I am always amazed at how many organisations have a really inspiring vision, but if you ask the company’s employees, hardly anyone can really articulate this vision, although it is usually just a short sentence.

For them, the vision is thus just an empty phrase that was written at some point for marketing or “just because you have to have one”, but it does not have the radiance it could have.

Why not?

Reflect on your vision

At Guide and Lead, we have the vision on the table every day in our meetings (or in the online slides). As we go through our decision-making process, it is imperative to consult the vision at some point and also the values we associate with it to ensure we are always on track.

Although we do so many different things here, we are all united in our common vision.

If you take a look at your own vision, be it your personal vision, the vision of your team or the vision of your company, ask yourself whether your vision can really answer the question “why” for you.

Why are you doing what you are doing? Why are you doing it and not someone else? Why are you doing it for the people you are doing it for? Are you really in alignment with your vision? And if not, what needs to be changed? The vision or what you are doing?

If you allow these questions to work within you a little and perhaps even meditate on them or transfer the vision to a “vision board” to make it more palpable and visually tangible, you will quickly realise where something feels good and right and where it does not.

I am always fascinated by the fine antennae that people have for such undertones. If a person listens to these antennae when they have a feeling of discord, they often quickly find blockages and barriers that stand in the way of their self or their endeavour. ( By the way, this is a superpower of humans compared to a purely calculating AI).

But now back to my training. It will take place online and still be a human connection. Always a challenge. And yet I am thrilled and grateful to be able to tackle such co-creative processes with teams (including ours here) across continents.

See you soon, Ulrike