Creating Shared Vision

1. Creating Shared Vision UW LEAH Seminar Laura Richardson, MD, MPH

2. Overview • Brief presentation on shared vision • Discussion of vision and self-limiting mental models • Exercise distinguishing goals and objectives from vision • Case study discussion

3. Shared Vision – What is it? • “a common mental model of the future state of the team or its tasks that provides the basis for action within the team” – Pierce & Ensley • Shared vision: • Not “individual” vision • Offers a clear description of a future that everyone wants to achieve • Inspires team to “pay the price” and overcome barriers • Generates energy and successful collaborative change

4. What shared vision is not • Strategic planning • Top down • Focused on (or limited by) the here and now Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then we shall find the way Abraham Lincoln

5. How do you create shared vision • Start from where you want to go – not where you are • Communicate your passion (deep caring) • Provide room for other people’s visions • Avoid self-limiting mental models

6. Self-limiting mental models • Internal predetermined hypotheses you have about the way your world works • Result in dismissal of possibilities • Keep you in the here and now (“easy to do”) The significant problems that we face cannot be solved by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them Albert Einstein

7. What are the elements of a good vision statement http://www.jhsph.edu/custom/mod_staticvideoplayer/_includes/cfm/popupVideo.cfm?src=CentersInstitutes/WomensChildrensHealthPolicyCenter/mch/Interviews/9goodvision.flv

8. Vision vs. goals/objectives, strategic planning, and mission • http://www.jhsph.edu/custom/mod_staticvideoplayer/_includes/cfm/popupVideo.cfm?src=CentersInstitutes/WomensChildrensHealthPolicyCenter/mch/Interviews/10roles.flv

9. Summary - Key Points • When crafting vision, start from where you want to go, not the current situation • A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more. – Rosabeth Moss Kanter • Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

10. Summary - Key Points 2. Change is costly, the goal of shared vision is to inspire • I have a dream… - Martin Luther King • On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future. – Barack Obama

11. Summary - Key Points 3. Shared vision often arises from personal passion but it is not “top down”

12. Summary - Key Points 4. Shared vision is not strategic planning • If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery • Vision without execution is hallucination. – Thomas Edison

13. Summary - Key Points 5. Shared vision requires seeing past self-limiting mental models • To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership – not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere - Ronald Reagan • Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. – Barack Obama

14. The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination. John Schaar