Discuss the following four (4) sets of questions. Spend time only with the questions that are meaningful to your team since different groups are attracted to different questions. The words, phrases, and ideas that emerge from these dialogues will become seeds for building a shared vision of the future.
Assume it is five years from today’s date and you have, marvelously enough, built the organization you most wanted to create. Now it is your job, as a team, to describe it in writing as if you were able to see it in action around you.
Consider each section’s questions one by one, painting an ever clearer shared vision of your future organization (division). After each section answer, “How do we measure our progress?”
1. Who are our stakeholders of this organization (division)?
2. What is our division’s role within the College?
3. What is our division’s role in the community?
4. What are our values?
5. What do we love most about our work?
6. What value do we produce for our stakeholders?
7. What is the impact of our work?
8. How do we work with them to create this value?
9. What is our image in the marketplace?
10. How well do we compete?
11. What does our organization look like?
1. What is our capacity to deal with major trends in our area of responsibility?
2. What is our ability to deal with complex problems and issues?
3. How and how well do we plan?
4. How and how well do we communicate internally and externally?
5. How do we develop leaders in our division?
6. How do we continue to learn and grow professionally?
7. What is our risk-taking quotient?
8. How do we identify and move good ideas and effective practices across the organization?
9. How do we sustain our energy to move toward our vision?
1. In terms of commitment what does our organization look like?
2. How do we handle the good times?
3. How do we handle the hard times?
4. How do accept responsibility for results?
1. How do we support each other?
2. How do others support us?
3. How do we recognize people?
4. How do we hold each other accountable for results?