Corporate Vision Is A Step in Building High Performing Teams

Posted by Sandy Gluckman, Leadership Speaker in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX on Sep 18, 2008

In her article Building High Performing Teams with Spirit, Sandy Gluckman, leadership speaker and business trainer discusses how a strong corporate vision is necessary for business team building. Sandy outlines the five key steps to building high performance teams starting with vision.  She explains that when people hear the corporate vision statement, it produces a feeling of excitement because it brings an image to their mind that gives them hope for the future.  To build high-performing teams, a shared corporate vision, well formulated and well communicated is essential to unite, inspire and align leadership, managers and employees.  Companies that have a strong corporate vision continue to prosper even when others around them do not. 

All significant behaviors and decisions begin with a vision first.  The same principal applies when you set out to build a high performance team.  When everyone shares the vision of where the company and the team are going, making decisions becomes much easier.  They simply ask themselves the question…’does this decision take as a step closer to the corporate vision?’ 

 

When skillfully applied to business team building, the corporate vision is the force that will sustain the team when the going gets tough.  The concept of vision as a powerful strategic tool is often poorly utilized by leaders who do not understand the psychological and business impact a corporate vision has.  The result is that the vision lives in a frame on the wall and is used for publication in the annual report but is not built into the operational fabric of the organization. This is a missed opportunity because to build a high performing team, the corporate vision must be the foundation of the corporate culture.

 

Using Corporate Vision to Build High Performing Teams:

 

1.    Create a grand, noble vision, of 8 words or less, expressed in 7-year old language.

 

2.     Set the sights high and have no time limit.

 

3.    Convey the corporate vision in a dramatic and enduring way. 

 

4.    Give the employees a picture or image with details to make this corporate vision real. 

 

5.  Implement a process for articulating and communicating your vision and getting support throughout the organization.

6.     Discussion with each of the employees is necessary to ensure they fully understand the corporate vision and how it affects their own performance. 

 

7.    Keep the vision alive by constantly referring to it and using it in all decision-making and business team building.

 

By instilling your corporate vision in every level of your organization and using it as the platform for your business team building, you are on your way to business success!

 

Leadership speaker and development specialist, Dr. Sandy Gluckman has a long history of business team building across the world.  Dr. Gluckman's education in Whole Brain Training and Communication along with her extensive business experience, have earned her credibility and respect as an organizational and leadership development trainer who leads beyond yesterday's thinking towards a workable vision of the future. Her book Who's in the Driver's Seat? reveals that we all have two selves- the ego self and the spirited self.  In this groundbreaking book Dr. Gluckman creates a compelling business case for Spirited Economics where leaders and their team members learn to recognize the ego self, put the ego in the passenger seat and lead with the extraordinary capabilities of the spirited self.  Book Dr. Sandy Gluckman for a keynote speech or hire her to teach your organization to use spirit as an asset in Business Team Building.

 

 

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