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Vision Quest™

Focus: Executive/Senior Team

Time Frame: 7 to 9 months; usually one meeting per month, with a total of seven days.  The program begins with a 2 day off-site retreat and ends with a implimentation review meeting about 6 months after the program ends. 

Price: $27,500 USD; includes all materials for up to 8 executives.*

Shattered Myths

Myth 12: Companies become visionary primarily through “vision statements.”

Reality: Visionary Companies attained their stature not because they made visionary pronouncements, but because they succeeded in having their core values and purpose permeate the entire organization.

Jim Collins and Jerry Porras, Built to Last

In a 1999 Fortune cover story, it was concluded that emphasis placed on strategy and vision created a mistaken belief that the right strategy was all that was needed to succeed.  It was estimated that in 70 percent of cases of failure that the real problem wasn’t necessarily bad strategy, but bad execution.  In a separate study it was reported that fewer than 10 percent of effectively developed strategies were successfully implemented. 

The organizations that do achieve breakthrough results from the use of strategy are those who have created a solid focus and alignment of that strategy and then get it implemented! 

Strategic Planning is really about creating a compelling Vision: Purpose, Values, and Goals, that are all in alignment with each other, and then insuring that they are lived throughout the entire organization.

A Vision is a powerful and driving force in helping any organization achieve significant success.  It not only helps to focus the organization and provide energy to propel it forward, but it provides an emotional connection for employees to become engaged and committed to their work.

Creating a Vision often seems magical, mysterious and difficult to grasp.  It doesn’t have to be that way, however.  Vision does not have to remain elusive and out of reach.  Your organization is capable of achieving and creating a compelling Vision and bringing it to reality, and we have the process that can help you do that!

Our Vision Quest™ is designed to be conducted over the course of 7 to 9 months, and gives you the time to put in place a lasting plan and have it implemented throughout your organization.  Most High Performance organizations have taken this long or longer to finalize and implement their strategies that led to their success.  Our approach not only keeps you on track, but gives you a process for smoother implementation.

The goals of Vision Quest™ are:

  • Create a Preferred Future… a compelling Vision for the organization that everyone in the organization can buy into and support by clarifying and aligning the Purpose, Values and Goals.

  • Determine the Key Performance Measures for organizational success.

  • Develop an Action Plan for implementation of the Vision.

  • Identify issues related that need further alignment to support the implementation of the Vision throughout the entire organization.

How Disciplined is Your Organization?

’Visionary,’ we learned, does not mean soft and undisciplined. Quite the contrary. Because the visionary companies have such clarity about who they are, what they’re all about, and what they’re trying to achieve, they tend to not have much room for people unwilling or unsuited to their demanding standards.

Jim Collins and Jerry Porras, Built to Last

Vision Quest™ is a Seven Elements of High Performance™ Program.

The US Navy has adopted our model for use at the Center for Naval Leadership in all of their leadership development programs. 

*Plus Travel and Expenses.