Ivy Sea's Visioning Tips Series
TEN TIPS FOR INSPIRED VISIONING

Why might you do a visioning program, or bother defining a vision at all? That's like asking why motivation is important to your employees, why feeling inspired is different from being apathetic, or why you need to know the directions to a place you really want to get to but have never been before.

We at Ivy Sea know all too well how tough it can seem to make the time in a busy schedule for something that seems as intangible as visioning. But we can't see air, either, and we all know how crucial that is to our well-being. When it comes to vision, if you're not clear about and intentionally living into your own, you're living someone else's.

Noted psychiatrist, author and holocaust survivor Victor Frankl makes a grounded and inspiring argument regarding meaning in his classic book, Man's Search for Meaning. Others, like educator and management theorist Alfie Kohn, emphasize the importance of vision (even more than money) in motivating people toward higher levels of performance and satisfaction. And if you still need convincing, the greatest sages and wisdom teachers preached the merits of vision.

So it makes sens to make the time for visioning work, and you'll reap the rewards for doing it well. What rewards? Well, if you like feeling clear-headed and inspired about where you're going and how your daily activities are helping you get there, and if you like being focused rather than murky in your mindset and action, then our visioning clinic is for you!

Ten tips (plust three bonus tips) for inspired visioning

Our inspired-visioning tips are easily digestible and ready for action; you can use them individually, or all together for a more condensed program (or both). Here's a look at the ten-plus-three visioning tip series:

Visioning Series Kickoff — A Few Great Reasons to Bother With Visioning
Tip #1 — Prime the Pump: Loosen up with some "get-started" dialogue
Tip #2 —The Reflection Connection: What's most important?
Tip #3 — Activate Your Senses: Get your brain storming with creativity
Tip #4 — Identify Your Emerging Themes
Tip #5 — Noticing Where Your Key Themes Are Already at Work
Tip #6 — What do people call your company when you're not in ear-shot?
Tip #7 — How do your personal ethics affect your vision, and others?
Tip #8 — Is your vision based on someone else's standards?
Tip #9 — Getting clear on your "vision story"
Tip #10 — Ten questions to energize your group
Tip #11 — A strong vision is an anchor in challenging times
Tip #12 — Vision renewal: Transforming you vision into a guiding light
Tip #13 — Building upon a foundation of your strengths

The Ivy Sea Visioning Tip Series is available to our VIP Members, in the VIP Library.

You can also purchase the Visioning Tip Series independent of VIP Membership in the Ivy Sea Online Resource Store.

VIP Members go to the "Thirteen tips for inspired visioning" series now.