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Drafting your vision and mission

Drafting your vision and mission

- Now crafting a vision and mission sounds like it might be really difficult, but it can be quite easy with some very simple techniques. So get the relevant stakeholders in a room. Find some time where they're going to be able to open up and not feel the pressures of the daily operations, and then find some whiteboards and some flip charts and tee up some questions, and your task as a facilitator is to simply capture all those thoughts and prompt them on things that are going to contribute to the articulation of that vision and that mission. So for example, you can ask people what value do our customers get from interacting with us? What differentiates us from our competitors? What do we aspire to be three to five years from now, and then the important thing is let them talk, and do your best to capture everything that's said up on that whiteboard or that flip chart. Right now, you're just in input mode. Once you've gotten…

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