From the course: Developing Your Leadership Philosophy
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Setting a vision
- As you're leading the thinking for your team, your responsibility as the leader is to set a direction. You need to paint a clear and compelling picture of what you're trying to get the team to build, because if they don't have direction, they don't understand how their role, and the work that they do contributes to the greater good of the organization. The more clearly you're able to articulate that vision of a future state, the more excited you can have the members of your team be about how their contributions drive to that ultimate end state. You need to lay out what should we do and why should we do it. For example, I run a very small training firm out of Columbus, Ohio, but I've laid out a vision for our organization that we're going to be a global firm of uniquely skilled executives who teach managers around the world to be great leaders. Now, you say, that's pretty audacious for some guy from Columbus, Ohio to say he's building a global firm that helps managers become great…
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