Episode 13 – New Futures: How to Keep Your Vision Alive

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“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 TGN Consulting, 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 TGN Consulting 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

Quotes: 

“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 

“Leaders under-communicate vision by a factor of one hundred.” 

“True completion allows for the next creation.” – Kari Granger 

“People’s actions are consistent with the way that they observe their situations, themselves, and their future.” – Kari Granger 

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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 TGN Consulting approach – especially Fernando Flores, Jim Selman, Michael C. Jensen, Julio Olalla, Pluralistic Networks, The Newfield Network, and the Strozzi Institute.

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