Does anyone have any exercises they could send my way that I could use with middle-senior members of staff which would illustrate the importance of having a vision, lasting no more than 30 minutes?
Ellen Ryan
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quick illustration
The best exercise I’ve run was to blindfold a number of the participants, and ask them to (carefully!) negotiate across a room (put cushions on the floor to provide a bit of an obstable course which translates – roughly – into the business environment.) Ask how they felt. Flipchart comments. Change the position of the cushions. Get another group to put the blindfolds, but pair them with people to lead them across the room. Ask how it felt, flipchart the comments. Then get people to get across the room without blindfolds. Ask how it felt. From this, you should be able to literally describe what the idea of a company vision is about and its importance in defining direction, actions and feelings.
Hope this is useful.
Vision Building
Nick Heap has some useful thoughts here:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nick.heap/Visionbuilding.htm