Jay W. Vogt

Recharge Your Team (eBook, PDF)

The Grounded Visioning Approach

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

As most managers know, you need a vision to motivate employees to achieve goals. But people, and companies, lose focus, and the future appears hazy. People say, We're getting stale, or, I just don't know where we're headed. Leaders know they need a vision to bring people together. And they know a good vision will renew enthusiasm and commitment. But waiting for inspiration rarely works-sometimes you need a vision now. But how? Recharge Your Team not only shows managers how to create an effective vision-it shows how to do it in as little as four hours, using a time-tested, proven approach. Traditionally, companies call in consultants to help create a vision. Experts can help-for $4,000 per day plus expenses. And then there's the time involved: Visioning efforts can take months. This book offers a less-expensive, faster method. Called Grounded Visioning, and based on a concept called appreciative inquiry, the process allows groups to come up with a revitalizing vision that everyone buys into in half a day or less. How? As this book shows, the key is to be sure everyone takes part, to base the vision on how the team acts when at its best, and to imagine a vision bold enough to inspire but practical enough to feel achievable. This book covers the six quick but essential steps that ensure such results-with small teams or large groups. And any manager, not just trainers or HR people, can lead a successful Grounded Visioning session. Grounded visioning is a breakthrough concept of breathtaking simplicity and power that any leader can put to use today. It works, because it frees employees to share their dreams, hopes, and aspirations. As they soar, a vision naturally arises that recharges the team.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313355431
• Artikelnr.: 38213238

Autorenporträt

Jay W. Vogt is an organizational and human development consultant who founded Peoplesworth, a consultancy, in 1982. Clients include Nortel Networks, Stonyfield Farm, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Audubon Society, and many other mission-driven organizations.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgments 1 Vision: The Foundation for Success A team that
has a shared vision has a reason to come to work every day. 2 Six Steps to
Your Organizations Vision Focus on whats good about your team to create an
achievable vision. 3 Why Grounded Visioning Works Use a simple planning
method that everyone can understand. 4 Get Set for a Grounded Visioning
Session Planning happens at the Grounded Visioning sessionnot before. 5 Get
Set: Large Groups Need a Planning Committee Even very large groups can work
collaboratively and transparently. 6 Step-by-Step: Grounded Visioning for
Smaller Groups Specific instructions and stated time limits help groups
quickly create a vision. 7 Case Studies: Grounded Visioning for Small
Groups The whole group works together, assisted by one facilitator. 8 Step
by Step: Grounded Visioning for Large Groups With larger groups,
participants take on some of the facilitators tasks. 9 Case Studies:
Grounded Visioning for Large Groups For some activities, the group
subdivides and works in parallel. 10 Vision into Action Even before you
create the vision, create the template to follow through. 11 Case Studies:
Vision into Action The more specific the metrics and plan, the more
successful the innovation. 12 The Power of the Positive When groups focus
on the positive, they see the potential for a better future. 13 The Genius
of the Group Better decisions come from involving all stakeholders. 14 The
Spark of Sight People can handle lots of information when they think with
both words and pictures. 15 Case Studies: Business Planning Grounded
Visioning is a way to gain market knowledge and tap employee insights. 16
Case Studies: Nonprofit Planning Grounded Visioning engages the passion and
commitment of volunteers. 17 Case Studies: Community Planning When groups
are large, diverse and unwieldy, Grounded Visioning creates focus. 18
Organizations as Living Things Leaders who invite participation create
visions that live. Appendix Follow-up and Evaluation