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Recharge Your Team The Grounded Visioning Approach

Jay W. Vogt

ISBN: 0-313-35542-8

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

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224 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 11/30/2008

List Price: $39.95 (UK Sterling Price: £27.95)

Availability: In Stock

Media Type: Hardcover

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

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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. But 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 four hours, using a time-tested, proven 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

About the Author: Jay W. Vogt is an organizational and human development consultant who founded Peoplesworth, a consultancy, in 1982. Clients include Nortel Networks, Stonyfield Farm, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Audubon Society, and many other mission-driven organizations.

PDF Catalogs:
Praeger Public Library Spring 2009.pdf	Business Catalog 2008.pdf


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