Showing posts with label vision. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vision. Show all posts
July 11, 2010
Tell Me About Your Dream Cafe
What would be your dream cafe? Tell me about the setting, food and people. Share your vision here or at Amy's Dream Cafe.
October 8, 2009
Recommitting to My Career
Over the past few weeks I've questioned my career choices - consulting vs. being inside a company. What I've recognized is that I love my career.
Earlier this week Leah and I presented a workshop for the Center for Cultural Innovation helping artists write their personal vision and mission, identify their core values and set goals for moving forward. While Leah was presenting the values and mission components of the course I followed along with the participants and had several "aha!" moments. I shared these with the students when I presented the goal setting section. Instructors make visioning sound so easy but when you put yourself in the student role you realize - it is hard when you do it for yourself.
Here's what I articulated:
Vision: I believe that people need to lead-together to reach community goals.
Mission: I support people in reaching their goals by guiding team building so that they can lead-together.
Values: My core values are the ability to pursue new ideas, practice self-expression, be creative, build a sense of community, work in teams and always have variety in my projects.
Goals:
Make enough money to cover all my expenses, save some money for the future, and not incur debt.
To have excellent life-work balance.
To travel, teach and facilitate nationally and internationally.
This last goal got a huge response from the group and one woman said it gave her chills. How's that for accountability - sharing your goals in front of 25 people.
Earlier this week Leah and I presented a workshop for the Center for Cultural Innovation helping artists write their personal vision and mission, identify their core values and set goals for moving forward. While Leah was presenting the values and mission components of the course I followed along with the participants and had several "aha!" moments. I shared these with the students when I presented the goal setting section. Instructors make visioning sound so easy but when you put yourself in the student role you realize - it is hard when you do it for yourself.
Here's what I articulated:
Vision: I believe that people need to lead-together to reach community goals.
Mission: I support people in reaching their goals by guiding team building so that they can lead-together.
Values: My core values are the ability to pursue new ideas, practice self-expression, be creative, build a sense of community, work in teams and always have variety in my projects.
Goals:
Make enough money to cover all my expenses, save some money for the future, and not incur debt.
To have excellent life-work balance.
To travel, teach and facilitate nationally and internationally.
This last goal got a huge response from the group and one woman said it gave her chills. How's that for accountability - sharing your goals in front of 25 people.
July 3, 2008
Live your dream: make it happen
Nicole and I had a fantastic conversation about articulating your own personal vision and mission statements. "Once you've articulated what it is you are about so much more falls into place" was her advice. As a consultant and coach I certainly offer the same guidance but good golly I find it so hard to do for myself.
At first I came up with something very lofty and filled with lingo. I then tried to share it with Nicole and I couldn't even remember what it was. Didn't roll of the tongue, got stuck in the brain. Following the KISS theory (Keep It Simple Sister) I chunked up on the vision (meaning that I took it up a few notches) and this is what I realized.
Vision and Mission statement - all blended into one:
Live your dream: make it happen
That's what I'm about. I'm starting to reflect that more in my consulting and coaching website Leading-Together.
At first I came up with something very lofty and filled with lingo. I then tried to share it with Nicole and I couldn't even remember what it was. Didn't roll of the tongue, got stuck in the brain. Following the KISS theory (Keep It Simple Sister) I chunked up on the vision (meaning that I took it up a few notches) and this is what I realized.
Vision and Mission statement - all blended into one:
Live your dream: make it happen
That's what I'm about. I'm starting to reflect that more in my consulting and coaching website Leading-Together.
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