Dakota Beerman

As an Integrator / Operator, how will you turn your personal or organization vision into reality?

I recently took a group of young men to an overlook to talk about vision. We looked and picked a spot far out from where we stood. We talked about how hard it is to get there. You move towards your vision, but the path gets hard, you get distracted, you get lost, you get scared. A long-term vision that you finish as a Man, Woman, or an organization is hard to do.

If there was a stat about the number of visions unfulfilled, you wouldn’t try. I have many failed vision plans. My planner full of abandoned dreams. What are the problems?

Personal Vision:

1. Too many things at once. The first culprit I have experienced is choosing too many things at once.

“You can do anything, but not everything.”

2. Too lofty. It’s a great vision, but it’s forgotten in the distance.

3. Distraction. You get busy and forget what you set out to do. Your vision gets swamped in tasks.

Organizational Vision:

1. Same as above but with a group

2. Misalignment. People disagree, something gets written down, but no one follows through.

3. Visionary needs an integrator. Visionaries are starters, they need a follow through-er.

What do you do?

1. Focus. As a character trait, you need to develop this.

2. EOS would tell us, pick 2-3 things (Rocks) to focus on for 90 days. If it’s a 10-year goal, break it down to yearly, and quarterly goals.

3. A tool I like is the “S.M.A.R.T.” goal sheet. It breaks your goal down to more manageable steps. You can find it all over, it’s very popular.

4. Same page meeting and Status Report. Use the same page meeting (EOS) for Visionary / Integrator (Operator) alignment. Or a tool I’ll continue to reference called the Status report.