How To Inspire a Vision

One of my mentees was looking for ways to grow her prowess in “Inspiring a Vision.”  

Here are a few ways I learned to help inspire a vision to help others see it more vividly:

1. Draw your vision – make it a simple picture  (draw it on a whiteboard or a piece of paper)
2. Use metaphors – metaphors are the fastest way to share an idea
3. Paint the story – what’s the current state, what’s the future state
4. Paint the ecosystem – who are the players in the system, what are the levers, what are the inputs/outputs
5. Paint the story over time … how does time change the vision … and chunk up the vision into 6 month, 1 year, 3 year, five year

A powerful tool Program Managers use is a Vision / Scope document.

And one of the best tools that military uses to create a shared vision rapidly and communicate it down the line is “Future Picture”  (See How To Paint a Future Picture.)

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