We're here again with Ray Rood, the architect of the Organizational Transformation Model that has been central to the work of Genysys and we have another conversation with him about organizational transformation and how to transform. Today's episode is all about Vision, and how to use it to create your future reality. Listen in to find out what Ray has to share about his process called Strategic Futuring, which requires using your imagination to create your future.

"Do enough people in your organization share and own a clear and compelling picture of the organization thriving in the distant future?" is the key question that Ray uses in the Genysys group when it comes to discussing Vision with organizations. This is a great question and it's also a really significant one to ask. Listen in today as Ray unpacks the question and explains how important it really is for creating a shared vision for the future. 

Show Highlights:

• Ray explains just how important this key, organizational question really is.
• The more that people are able to share a common picture of themselves in the future, the more likely transformational change is to take place.
• Why individual agendas within an organization are likely to conflict with each other and cancel each other out. 
• Ray explains how an organization, or a group of people, can get a shared vision for the future.
• The results that can occur when people are able to rally a shared, common vision for the future, within an organization. 
• How Ray shared his Vision approach with the director of a library.
• Identifying the stakeholders who are to be part of your shared vision. 
• What Ray means by stakeholders.
• Ray has found that about eighty percent of what people come up with, as their vision for the future, is very similar.
• The way that Ray's Vision Process works with groups of five or six people.
• Ray is always surprised to find that people tend to come up with a similar vision for the future.
• One of the greatest sources of organizational energy is a shared vision.
• A shared vision becomes like a magnet, pulling you into the future.
• Why imagination plays so much into vision.
• Why so many adults find it difficult to use their imagination in a positive way.
• Some important aspects of vision, both within organizations and for people personally.
• Vision work starts with your history and your vision is a part of a story.
• Creating a vision is anchored in who you are at your core.
• Questions are really important for Strategic Futuring because they frame what you want to focus on, using your imagination.
• Many organizational leaders tend to confuse mission and vision.
• Why you have to go beyond five years with a vision.

Links:

The Genysys Group website: www.genysysgroup.com 

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