The best place to start to create an inspiring vision statement is to gather a group of people together. For example, your management team. If your business is small, have your entire team participate. If you work alone, invite a group of great friends who support your success. Everyone will have great ideas to contribute.

A FUN way to do this is to take everyone off site to a more creative environment. If it\’s warm enough to be outside, go to a park where there are tables and benches. Pick a beautiful spot to get the juices flowing.

It also works just as well in your office. All you need to do is to make the environment stimulating. Play lively music. Have the team decorate the space with balloons. And yummy snacks and lunch work wonders too!

Bring in colorful and fun items to use in the creative process, like colorful pens, pencils, and stickers. Have Silly Putty and other materials that can be moved into different shapes-as well as toys. Anything that\’s creative and will add some spice and fun. And use flip chart paper that you can stick up on the wall.

You want to engage all the senses because you will be asking your people to play, imagine, and dream with you-all to create your ideal future.

The power of having your team participate in this process is that they will be 100% enrolled and engaged in bringing your vision statement alive, since they helped to create it!

What you will create together is an inspiring vision statement which is a description of where your company will ideally be in 3 or 5 years – pick your timeline, either 3 or 5 years.

Take your team through a visualization process. Start by turning off the music, then have everyone close their eyes and get calm and still. Invite your team to imagine 3 or 5 years out in the future. The company is now amazingly and wildly successful.

How do you create an inspiring vision statement?

As you guide people through this process, invite them to imagine the details of that future by answering these questions:

* What\’s different about the company?
* What are we known for?
* How big are we?
* In what ways are we more successful?
* How has our culture changed?
* What are we doing differently?
* What products or services are we now offering?
* How do we serve our customers?
* How have our customers changed?
* What has our growth caused for us?
* How are we playing bigger in the world?
* How are we making a difference?
* How can we make an even bigger difference?
* What are we now being recognized for, both in the media and in our industry?
* What awards have we won?

Guide your team to imagine your future in all this detail – the more the better. And feel free to add questions that resonate for you and your business.

Then bring your team out of the visualization process and invite them to capture what they were just imagining – by writing, drawing, making models – whatever works best for each individual.

Remember that there is to be absolutely NO EDITING at this stage of the process. There\’s no such thing as a silly idea. Challenge everyone to resist the temptation to edit or to correct others. Adding to and building upon each other\’s ideas is great! Just no need to get it \”perfect\” right now.

Keep the ideas free flowing and the energy high. A simple way to do this is to have people pair up and take turns sharing freely while the other writes them down. The goal here is to capture all their brilliance!

The wealth of ideas you\’ll get from this process will amaze you! It\’s enlightening to discover what your team members see possible for your company!

It\’s essential that you don\’t start the process of organizing all the ideas during the creative process. This will happen afterwards! If you start to organize the ideas while gathering them, what will happen is that you\’ll all get bogged down in the details-and this will stifle, if not decimate all progress.

Later you and your team will organize your ideas and dreams into a template. You will distill them down until you all arrive at the core words and phrases that best express your inspiring vision statement.

So have a MARVELOUS time with all this! Remember to HAVE FUN as you lead your team through this incredible process.

Author Bio: Andrea Woolf is a seasoned trainer, motivational speaker, author, and coach. She loves to inspire people to ‘have it all’. With her heartfelt style she has helped over 2500 organizations and individuals alike to clarify, simplify, and achieve extraordinary results while bringing purpose and meaning to every aspect of their lives. Each day Andrea fulfills her dream of supporting amazing people in transforming their lives and truly connecting to the difference they make in the world. Andrea has s http://igniteyourlifebook.com/

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