“A new vision may sound very inspiring to you, but it will sound a lot less inspiring to your team if there were four previous visions that never fully bore fruit.” – Paul Adams
Welcome to Leadership Impact, the podcast for modern executives who are reinventing leadership within their organizations. Hosted by executive leadership coach and CEO of The Granger Network, Kari Granger, and Sound Financial Group CEO, Paul Adams, this podcast aims to address the topics of performance and leadership through real life examples. This episode completes our series on new futures.
In this episode, Kari and Paul talk about sustaining a strategic vision. Paul discusses his experience working with a CEO whose grandiose visions were unsustainable and led to turnover within his organization. This CEO inspired action but failed to maintain one consistent vision and, thus, alienated directors on his team who were charged with implementing this vision. Kari provides examples of how she and her team infuse The Granger Network vision into their practices and structures. Kari identifies the four principles that are critical for sustaining a successful vision. These include communication, accountability, engaging stakeholders and maintaining context. Finally, Paul challenges the audience to practice these four principles in order to sustain their vision.
What We Covered:
00:26 – Introducing today’s topic: How to Keep Your Vision Alive
00:46 – Paul’s experience working with a CEO whose unsustainable visions led to turnover within the organization
03:26 – Kari’s experience shopping with Groupon
05:06 – Implementing and executing a vision
06:27 – Kari talks about reading the vision aloud at monthly alignment meetings
07:13 – The importance of consistency in communicating vision
07:42 – Having an accountability structure for strategic vision
09:40 – Why many leaders sometimes avoid the details when implementing their vision
11:39 – The importance of stakeholder involvement
15:05 – Maintaining context within a vision
17:32 – Kari’s experience working with two military units that did not share an aligned vision
20:13 – Kari and Paul leave the audience with four principles to create and sustain a vision
21:04 – Paul challenges the audience to look for visions that haven’t been sustained and then practice these four principles to sustain it moving forward
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Acknowledgements:
Our work is mosaic art. We read, study, and practice many philosophies, methodologies, and modalities of human performance, to ensure that our approach best serves our clients. We would like to acknowledge all of the thought leaders and organizations, whose ground-breaking work has influenced the Granger Network approach – especially Fernando Flores, Jim Selman, Michael C. Jensen, Julio Olalla, Pluralistic Networks, The Newfield Network, and the Strozzi Institute.
In this episode, we’d especially like to acknowledge John Kotter and for his work in his book, Leading Change.
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