Communicating a Shared Vision

Overview/Description
 "If you can dream it, you can do it." Walt Disney's words ring as true today as they did many years ago when they were first displayed above the Epcot Center. The importance of a vision cannot be denied. Neither can the importance of communicating that vision to the people responsible for supporting it. Communicating your vision gives purpose and meaning to the work that people do, and pursuing and accomplishing that vision with a sense of integrity builds trust in you as an individual and as a leader. This course will teach you how to communicate a shared vision and get action on that vision across all sectors of your working environment.

Target Audience
 Supervisors, managers and coaches

Expected Duration
4.5 hours

Lesson Objectives:

The Importance of Vision

  • recognize the importance of thinking like a visionary.
  • use actions that demonstrate visionary thinking in a given scenario.
  • identify how the past can be utilized to formulate a vision.
  • specify elements that enhance the process for creating a vision.
  • communicate your vision to employees in a way that will attain employee commitment.

    • Giving Meaning to Work

  • recognize the benefits of having meaningful work.
  • choose techniques that assist leaders in providing purpose and direction.
  • identify how purpose, teamwork, and systems are interconnected.
  • identify elements that make up organizational culture.

    • Building Trust Through Integrity

  • recognize the value of balancing aspiration and ability with integrity.
  • determine if appropriate actions have been taken by a well balanced leader in a given scenario.
  • use empathy to build trust with an employee, in a given scenario.
  • demonstrate ethics to build trust in a given scenario.

    • Acting on Goals

  • recognize the benefits of acting on your goals.
  • apply the process for setting a realistic goal, in a given scenario.
  • select elements that contribute to committing to action.
  • apply the steps for strategic thinking to a planning situation, in a given scenario.
  • select the types of power that can be helpful in achieving goals.

    • Course Number: LEAD0142