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MIND THE VISION

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

STEVIE WONDER

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LEADERSHIP

The pre-eminent recipe for building a container concept organisation:

  1. we drag a container in the meeting room
  2. we open the container
  3. all of us use a lot of high level concepts in our speech (‘we should build in more leverage inside our organisation’)
  4. we all pretend to understand what is said in the same way
  5. we dump all our individual meaning that we give to these concepts in the meeting’s container
  6. we close the meeting, satisfied with the fact that there is so much common understanding in the organisation

MIND THE

VISION BUILDING

Together we transform corporate jargon into clear and meaningful actions.

Discussions in most organisations contain too much conceptual talk.
They somewhat resemble the confusion of tongues in Babel.

Unfortunately, people assume that they give the same meaning to the same words. Let me show you what I mean with an example of a mission statement:

By creating value for our customers, we create value for our shareholders. We use our expertise to create transport-related products and services of superior quality, safety and environmental care for demanding customers in selected segments. We work with energy, passion and respect for the individual.

All around the table nod or keep silent, as if they are implying ‘yes, I know exactly what you mean, dear speaker’.

‘Customer delight’, ‘value creation’, ‘flexibility’: they remain vague container concepts in case we don’t give a shared meaning to these words.

This is the first step: creating a shared meaning to words.

Second step: what will we actually do with terms like mission, vision, goals that is both clear ànd meaningful enough to people?

Do you want a vision soundboard? Call or e-mail me to discuss the first steps for vision building with your team / organisation.

ARTICLES

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Green and red flags

Red flags are just as important as green flags. To say ‘NO’ in a healthy, normalising way, gives more energy and inspiration to fully say ‘YES’ to projects and interactions that do matter.

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Envisioning with teams & organisations

I felt inspired by working together in 2020 with the Leadership Team from NGO ‘Smile and Olive’. As a ‘Culture First’ organisation they have embraced their mission statement and culture as a second nature. Remember: ‘A good team survives a bad product. But a good product doesn’t survive a bad team.’ (Michel Akkermans)

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WHAT OTHERS SAY

CLIENT ECHOES

I hired Peter for the first time as a facilitator for an interactive session for the top 20 of our company (HQ Ghent, Belgium- April 2016). That was when he brought the attention to his “vision framework”: a practical tool and way of thinking and acting to assess the progress, stagnation and decline of organizations and teams. Later, he also did a good job guiding a session for a larger team of leaders and experts ( Cracow, Poland – October 2016 ).
During a number of engaging days with an international vision team in Ghent, Peter helped us crafting our mission, strategy and values in the course of 2017. The last step was his contribution in having these vision building blocks explained and further elaborated in plenary and in subgroups, again with the same Christeyns large group of leaders and experts ( Badalona, Spain – October 2017 ). What started out as a 1st session, has become a very solid partnership with great output and usefulness for our organization and Christeyns staff, and undoubtedly, our clients.

PETER BAUWENS – CHRISTEYNS

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