Strategic assets that provide tactical advantage
How can simple words help us survive tumultuous markets and stakeholders’ rapidly shifting demands?
Effective Vision and Value statements embody clear strategic direction. By articulating inspirational goals and intentions, they are a management tool your leadership team will use to create context in aligning the focused energies of employees and the broader stakeholder base, resulting in better decision-making on behalf of your organization. When they are truly authentic to your organization, the Vision and Values become key strategic assets on your path to success.
In addition to providing strategic value, well-conceived Vision and Values statements are a critical tool in your tactical response to destabilizing forces like technology and social media. Today stakeholders require that the organiztaions they align with provide unprecedented levels of accountability, transparency and authenticity. Vision and Values statements set the strategic direction and, combined with effective Mission and Goals Frameworks, empower your employee base to become better stewards of the organization’s interests in the conference room and in the chat room.
Vision and Values statements function as strategic business tools, but they are not the endgame. They are the result of a process which brings your leadership and stakeholder representatives together to agree on a powerful description of the long-term aspirations they feel passionate about and the behavioral Values they hold themselves accountable to.
Through the subsequent process of developing the Mission and Goals Framework, and holding themselves accountable to it in the context of the Vision and Values, your leadership team shares their passion and focus with your employees and external stakeholders until these strategic statements become living symbols, interpreted constantly through the thousands of decisions, large and small, made every day by everyone striving toward common goals.
It starts with a creative and analytical process in which your leadership team focuses the aspirational statements that speak to the broader stakeholder base when they answer these core questions:
- How will the world be better when we have succeeded?
- How will we behave as we pursue success?
It becomes real when the leadership team takes to heart the meaning of the statements, building them into the Mission and Goals Framework and communicating them clearly in their own words and decisions through the daily life of the organization.
It lives when your employees and stakeholders speak the strategy with their own voices and actions both online and offline, on company time and off it.
Magus Consulting’s Vision and Values methodology is effective in both commercial and nonprofit settings. Our approach, customized to each organizations’ unique situation utilizes creative brainstorming with facilitated discussion and Stakeholder research and input.
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