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Principle #5 – Crowdsource Your Direction Virtually
Here’s the idea:
Many leaders create their vision and strategy from an insular view of the world. ie. they copy and paste last years plan and their boss adds 10% to their KPI’s. Creating a vision that serves, with an external outcome for an external stakeholder is more powerful. It creates more meaning for those around you. The virtual working or blended working environment makes it easier to do this, as you can use the tools to get external feedback and input into your direction.
Here’s more detail about how to do it:
There are 3 outcomes you want from the process :
- During your strategy session you want to make sure that the team are aligned
- Everyone in the team has clarity of the external expectations of your team. The team’s purpose is defined by the expectations of the work the external world needs them to do.
- The strategy development process should enhance team relationships. You should walk away from that with the idea of you know what “I actually feel more connected, I like the person next to me. I value them.”
How do we achieve these three objectives in a blended work environment?
- Are you are you in the office only?
- “Are you virtual?”
- “Are you blended (both)?”
That will then drive the format and tools you use:
- Time in the Office
- Virtual Meeting Tools
- Chat and collaboration tools
Pre Session
- Use the tools to collect as much data as you can about the immediate and longer term needs of the external stakeholders and environment to the team
- Allow the team to chat and debate their ideas on a collaboration tool such as What’s App/ MS Teams.
During the Session
- Allow the team to make sense of the data they’ve captured.
- The goal is not perfection but alignment.
Post Session
- Test and Learn the new direction
- I would encourage you to use the virtual tools to update the strategy. I would use all the chat to keep the conversation going about the strategy afterwards, and getting people to give their input and ideas around their learning.
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