Align and motivate your team

Cover Story Vision

What is the most amazing future you see for your company (and yourself)? Who has the boldest vision ever? Imagine how you will appear on magazine covers. What’s the word on the street? Creating a cover story will help you get into a future state of mind.

5 Bold Step Vision

If you want to make positive, future-oriented change in your organization you’ll need to go beyond writing long-winded paper visions and come to a shared agreement about what you are going to fight for together, and what steps you are going to take to get “there.”

The 5 bold steps canvas is a perfect tool to align your teams in your organization. 

Vision & Mission

Often people get their mission and vision confused. The Climb Tool helps you get it right.

Start with your vision, the destination of your climb. What is the change that you want to see in the world? Work backwards from your vision towards your mission by defining how you will get to the top of the hill. By offering what type of value?

Team Charter

Together, you’ll need to decide on the values your team upholds as part of its collaboration. These values will help form the foundation for a successful team, which will make it easier to reach the goal while reducing confusion about the team’s objectives. What’s more, the charter will provide clear guidelines about how team members will work together and what each person will contribute, which will help ensure the team moves forward and not backward.

Narrative Guiding Priniciples

Instead of a traditional wooden Mission Statement, or empty Core Values, develop a set of Guiding Principles:

1. What are you trying to bring about in the world?
2. What happens if you don’t accomplish the mission?
3. What are the key characteristics of your people?
4. What are the critical actions that need to happen daily?
5. What is your story (actually your customer’s story)?
6. What is the underlying theme of what you do?