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Recharge Your Team The Grounded Visioning Approach

Jay W. Vogt

Book Code: C35542

ISBN: 0-313-35542-8

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-35542-4

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224 pages, figures; tables

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 11/30/2008

List Price: $39.95 (UK Sterling Price: £22.95)

Availability: In Stock

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Endorsement From Lisa Zankman,
Senior Vice President, Human Resources,
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: Somehow Jay creates magic out of chaos. He is able to bring together people of diverse backgrounds and temperaments and inspire them to work together. This book captures the essence of what he does and makes it seem possible to do it yourself.
Endorsement From Thomas Herrera-Mishler,
Chief Executive Officer,
Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy: Grounded Visioning focuses on the positive, giving organizations a powerful process for overcoming even bitter disappointments, efficiently setting the groundwork in place to move together toward a more positive future.

This group planning process really works. Gathering together a skeptical group of stakeholders and helping them focus on the positive allowed the organization I had just taken over to break away from a very negative place and envision a more positive future by remembering the good things this organization had originally meant to them. Remarkable progress was made in a very short time and Grounded Visioning proved to be just the process needed to regain our momentum.
Endorsement From Jeff Clanon,
Founding Consultant Member of The Society for Organizational Learning,
Former Executive Director of the MIT Center for Organizational Learning: Over the past decade the value and importance of a compelling, shared vision for generating energy and enabling exceptional performance in an organization has become increasingly clear. Less clear however is how to actually go about creating one. In "The Grounded Vision Approach" author Jay Vogt offers an eminently practical and efficient methodology for doing just that.
Endorsement From Mary L. Fifield Ph.D.,
President,
Bunker Hill Community College: Do you believe that every person's voice adds value? Are you seeking a proven organizational change process that is exhilarating and meaningful, yet quick? If so, this book is your roadmap to long lasting collective commitment regardless of the group's size or difference of opinion.
Endorsement From Peggy Holman,
Author, The Change Handbook: Is your organization stuck? Have you reached that point of knowing that doing what you've always done just doesn't cut it? Jay Vogt offers an elegant response: convene a diverse group of stakeholders to create an image of the future that inspires action. Try it!
Endorsement From Nick Craig,
Best Selling Author, Finding Your True North: A Personal Guide: Jay has created something for all of us to be great leaders in the 21st century: A model for an organization to create and align behind a vision in half the time with twice the impact of anything else out there! Bravo!
Endorsement From Laura Johnson,
President, Massachusetts Audubon Society: Jay Vogt has written an inspired guide to an inspiring process. I have benefited from working with Jay over a number of years, and I highly recommend his Grounded Visioning Approach as an energizing and clarifying tool to help your organization achieve its mission.
Endorsement From Carole Wedge,
President, Shepley Bulfinch: Grounded Visioning-outlined in this book by Jay Vogt-has the unique attribute of capturing the positive and optimistic components of your organization; encouraging your key stakeholders to speak from the heart; articulate their most positive experiences and then develop an aligned plan for your work ahead. Our organization benefited greatly from the quick, positive and action focused approach to developing Strategic Task Groups focused on the future.
Endorsement From Stephen McDonnell,
CEO, Applegate Farms: Jay has a great way of cutting to the chase; creating meaningful change and making everyone smile in the process. He is the real deal.
Endorsement From James R. Salzano, EVP,
Clarks Companies, North America: Jay's approach draws upon organization's value system. This leads to a strategic vision and plan that is relevant to the organization, actionable at all levels and catalytic.
Endorsement From Gary Hirshberg,
President and CE-Yo,
Stonyfield Farm, Inc.: I have watched and benefited from Jay helping to untangle organizational messes for two decades. The guy is a genius. If you've got an organizational challenge, you will not want to miss his book.

Description: As most managers know, you need a vision to motivate employees to achieve goals. But people, and companies, lose focus, and the future appears hazy. People say, "We're getting stale," or, "I just don't know where we're headed." Leaders know they need a vision to bring people together. And they know a good vision will renew enthusiasm and commitment. Yet, waiting for inspiration rarely works--sometimes you need a vision now. But how? Recharge Your Team not only shows managers how to create an effective vision--it shows how to do it in as little as two hours, using a time-tested approach. Traditionally, companies call in consultants to help create a vision. Experts can help--for $4,000 per day plus expenses. And then there's the time involved: Visioning efforts can take months. This book offers a less-expensive, faster method. Called "Grounded Visioning," and based on a concept called appreciative inquiry, the process allows groups to come up with a revitalizing vision that everyone buys into in half a day or less. How? As this book shows, the key is to be sure everyone takes part, to base the vision on how the team acts when at its best, and to imagine a vision bold enough to inspire but practical enough to feel achievable. This book covers the six quick but essential steps that ensure such results--with small teams or large groups. And any manager, not just trainers or HR people, can lead a successful Grounded Visioning session. Grounded visioning is a breakthrough concept of breathtaking simplicity and power that any leader can put to use today. It works, because it frees employees to share their dreams, hopes, and aspirations. As they soar, a vision naturally arises that recharges the team.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Vision: The Foundation for Success
A team that has a shared vision has a reason to come to work every day.
2 Six Steps to Your Organizations Vision
Focus on whats good about your team to create an achievable vision.
3 Why Grounded Visioning Works
Use a simple planning method that everyone can understand.
4 Get Set for a Grounded Visioning Session
Planning happens at the Grounded Visioning sessionnot before.
5 Get Set: Large Groups Need a Planning Committee
Even very large groups can work collaboratively and transparently.
6 Step-by-Step: Grounded Visioning for Smaller Groups
Specific instructions and stated time limits help groups quickly create a vision.
7 Case Studies: Grounded Visioning for Small Groups
The whole group works together, assisted by one facilitator.
8 Step by Step: Grounded Visioning for Large Groups
With larger groups, participants take on some of the facilitators tasks.
9 Case Studies: Grounded Visioning for Large Groups
For some activities, the group subdivides and works in parallel.
10 Vision into Action
Even before you create the vision, create the template to follow through.
11 Case Studies: Vision into Action
The more specific the metrics and plan, the more successful the innovation.
12 The Power of the Positive
When groups focus on the positive, they see the potential for a better future.
13 The Genius of the Group
Better decisions come from involving all stakeholders.
14 The Spark of Sight
People can handle lots of information when they think with both words and pictures.
15 Case Studies: Business Planning
Grounded Visioning is a way to gain market knowledge and tap employee insights.
16 Case Studies: Nonprofit Planning
Grounded Visioning engages the passion and commitment of volunteers.
17 Case Studies: Community Planning
When groups are large, diverse and unwieldy, Grounded Visioning creates focus.
18 Organizations as Living Things
Leaders who invite participation create visions that live.
Appendix
Follow-up and Evaluation

LC Card Number: 2008033684

LCC Class: HF5549

Dewey Class: 658

PDF Catalogs:
Business Catalog 2008.pdf


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