Creating Shared Vision UW LEAH Seminar

Laura Richardson, MD, MPH

Overview Brief presentation on shared visionDiscussion of vision and self-limiting mental

modelsExercise distinguishing goals and objectives from

visionCase study discussion

Shared Vision – What is it?“a common mental model of the future state of

the team or its tasks that provides the basis for action within the team” – Pierce & Ensley

Shared vision:Not “individual” vision Offers a clear description of a future that everyone

wants to achieve Inspires team to “pay the price” and overcome

barriersGenerates energy and successful collaborative

change

What shared vision is notStrategic planningTop downFocused on (or limited by)

the here and now

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then we shall find the way

Abraham Lincoln

How do you create shared visionStart from where you want to go – not where you

areCommunicate your passion (deep caring)Provide room for other

people’s visionsAvoid self-limiting mental

models

Self-limiting mental modelsInternal predetermined hypotheses you have about

the way your world worksResult in dismissal of possibilitiesKeep you in the here and now (“easy to do”)

The significant problems that we face cannot be solved by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them

Albert Einstein

What are the elements of a good vision statementhttp://www.jhsph.edu/custom/mod_staticvideoplayer/_includes/cfm/popupVideo.cfm?src=CentersInstitutes/WomensChildrensHealthPolicyCenter/mch/Interviews/9goodvision.flv

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Summary - Key Points1. When crafting vision, start from where

you want to go, not the current situation

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more. – Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Summary - Key Points2. Change is costly, the goal of shared vision is to inspire I have a dream… - Martin Luther King

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future. – Barack Obama

Summary - Key Points3. Shared vision often arises from personal passion but it is not “top down”

Summary - Key Points4. Shared vision is not strategic planningIf you want to build a ship, don’t herd people

together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Vision without execution is hallucination. – Thomas Edison

Summary - Key Points5. Shared vision requires seeing past self-limiting mental modelsTo grasp and hold a vision, that is the very

essence of successful leadership – not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere - Ronald Reagan

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. – Barack Obama

The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination.

John Schaar