Who should attend: Executives, managers, and other who are responsible for establishing and communicating vision for the organization, department or unit.

Whether you are a CEO or a team leader, if you are responsible for setting the course of your organization or unit, your success will depend on your ability to create, communicate, and engage a followership for your  vision.

Benefits:

• Greater alignment around a common vision.

• Less resistance to change and change initiatives.

• Rapid goal achievement and greater productivity.

• Higher morale and greater employee satisfaction.

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of this program, you will be able to:

• Define vision and the visioning process.             

• Explain the importance of a clear vision to effective change management.

• Practice the steps in the visioning process and develop vivid short and long term visions.

• Describe specific ways a vision ca be communicated to employees for maximum effectiveness.

• Outline ways to build buy-in for the vision.

• Identify specific actions that should be taken in orienting, hiring, training, promoting, evaluating, rewarding, and confronting employees to reinforce the vision.

Course Outline:

I.     What is visioning and the visioning process?

II.    Why is vision important to developing an empowered and self-managing workforce? (And why is empowerment and self-management important to organizational success?)

III.  What questions help in the development of clear day-to-day and long term vision?

IV.  How can the vision be communicated so it becomes a living part of everyday action and decision-making?

V.   How do you get people to buy-in to the vision?

VI.  How can vision be woven into hiring, ordering, training, rewarding, promoting, and confronting employees?