5 Leadership Fails that Erode Your Leadership Integrity: #4 Not Fully Leveraging Your Vision

Good leaders know the importance of having a vision. But even the best leaders often fail to leverage their vision to its full capacity.

A vision provides direction for an organization, a team, and a business. But it does so much more than provide direction. 

A fully leveraged vision also helps to align efforts throughout the organization. Team members feel more confident and competent when their personal goals are aligned with the vision of the organization 

This week we’re simply exploring more strategies to leverage your personal and organizational vision.

Your vision helps create focus: when your teams know what the priorities of your organization are, they’re able to focus their efforts with firm align.

Your vision builds unity: when everyone turns to face the direction your company is headed, everyone feels a sense of togetherness that cannot be understated.

Your vision drives long-term success: it’s true that day-to-day tasks are important, and that checkpoints, milestones, and objectives need to be fulfilled. But long-term success is largely based on whether or not you’ve cast a long-term vision. If you and your people know where you’re going, they will be able to more clearly articulate the short term milestones, and they will understand what those success milestones mean and how to interpret them for the organization.

Your vision builds leadership credibility: having a clear vision that is meaningful, important, and cast wide throughout the whole organization will build your leadership credibility tenfold.

Your vision differentiates your organization from everyone else. It is an identity builder both inside and outside your walls.

Your vision encourages accountability and guides your key leaders to create alignment between accountability and authority. 

Finally, a clearly cast vision will help attract investment dollars and partnerships. If you know where you’re going and your teams know where you’re going, then outside relationships will also clearly understand where you’re going. That builds confidence and integrity. 

Is your vision leveraged to its full potential?

Go. Be. Profound.