Creating a vision for your organisation

Creating a strong shared vision can inspire and energise your people to accomplish great things! Defining values and connecting them to goals will help people to focus on how they contribute and what is important. It can also develop a common language for your organisation, which will help to create to a sense of belonging and community within the workforce.
Here are some practical steps for leaders creating a vision with their team:  

• Involve your team. Your team is more likely to accept and embrace the vision if they are part of creating it

• Core values. Describe beliefs, values, expectations and how things will be done. These will feed into the team purpose and mission.

• Purpose. Define why the team exists and the impact of the team

• Mission. Describe what the team is trying to achieve.

• Strategy.  Define how the team plans to realize the mission. 

• Goals. Create goals to break down the strategy into shorter-term, achievable objectives

• Moving forward. Develop a mechanism to reflect, review and measure success so that you can make tweaks and improvements for the future.

Effectively communicating the vision is also an important step and the team should be reminded of the vision on a regular basis.