Shape your leadership vision

Tips to Help Shape Your Leadership Vision

Elon Musk is often described as a visionary - love him or hate him! While not all leaders are concerned with making commercial space travel a reality, they have their visions. How can you effectively shape your vision as a leader? If you want to achieve something, how do you know it's right for you? How do you broadcast that vision?

Any vision begins with a desired result. That's all a vision is where leadership is concerned. You are viewing a future time when you want to achieve a particular outcome. The following practices can help you develop a clear vision as a leader to reach your important personal and professional goals.

Embrace a Positive Mindset

Positivity is powerful. High-achieving leaders are usually certain of their vision and the belief that they will be successful. When formulating the ultimate vision you want to follow, move toward positive practices and ideals and away from negative influences.

Get Clear with Your Vision

What outcome do you want to create? Be specific. Outselling the other sales managers in your region is vague. Formulating a step-by-step plan with measurable and achievable milestones based on past sales figures and your current staff and resources clarifies your vision.

Be Flexible on the Path, Unwavering on the Goal

There may be a virtually limitless number of ways to make your vision a reality. That's why you should be flexible when creating a path that takes you from where you are now as a leader to where you want to be, where you realise the accomplishment of your vision. You shouldn't waiver on the reality you want to create while also understanding the path to achievement might need to change from what you initially envision.

Compare Your Values and Your Goals As a Leader

You've probably heard the advice that if you do what you love for a living, you will never work a day. Whether or not that is true, it's undeniable that we all prefer careers we find enjoyable. The same is true in any leadership scenario, whether coaching a sports team, volunteering to head up a charity drive, or leading a business through a difficult transition.

If you can, you want to be involved in something that excites you. That's because supporting your leadership responsibilities is easier when your goals are consistent with your values. Compare your values to the goals you face as a leader. If they are aligned, it will be easier for you to develop and communicate your vision.

Engage in Some Serious Soul-Searching

Surface-level introspection doesn't work here. Dig deep. Think about your purpose in life. What is the most important reason you do what you do daily? 

If you don't understand your motivation at the deepest level, you won't be able to develop a clear vision that will get you charging out of bed every day, anxious to take action. Develop a clear certainty of what you want to do and why it is important.

The deeper your vision connects with your important values, the more likely you are to stay engaged in making it a reality.

Put these vision development tips into practice. They help you see your desired future with a clarity that can lead to success.