Shared Vision Tough Spots LO611

Bernou11i@aol.com
Thu, 30 Mar 1995 07:41:19 -0500

I participate in a dialogue study group in my organization. At least
that's what it started out to be. We have expanded to other areas, one of
which is shared vision. All of the participants have had lots of
experience with visioning in high and low level group settings. We have
collectively observed some "tough spots" and would appreciate your
thoughts on why they happens and especially, what to do to remedy of avoid
them.

Experiences include:

- Visioning takes so long that we lose interest
- There are so many different individual visions that we
lose a lot of them in the blending
- After we have the vision, it's nice but then we get back
to work (ignoring it)

Some thought provoking questions that emerged were:

Why does this vision stuff drive us nuts?
If we write a vision, so what? What happens next?
Why does it get watered down?
Why don't things happen?
Why is the final written copy the LEAST amount than everyone agrees to?
Is it really the right thing to do? (When and when not?)
How SHARED does it have to be?
Why VISION instead of PURPOSE?
How do we know if we are really DOING it? (measurement)

I think we have a pretty good understanding as to the theory behind shared
visioning (reasons why & approach), but would appreciate other thoughts,
especially around best practices to address the above issues.

I look forward to your discussion.

Bill Eureka <Bernou11i@aol.com>