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So, not only do you need a good road map when you lead or follow a vision, but you must also allow your experiences and observations to refine it as you go along, and you must be able to share it with others. A leader creates a vision with others, or shares their own with others, and inspires them. A shared vision takes shape.

While ‘a shared vision’ sounds rather grand, the vision itself can be as splendid or as modest as you like. It does, however, have to be achievable, worthwhile and inspiring, first for yourself, and if you want to be a leader, for others too. If it inspires you alone, then you are at best a visionary and at worst a crank or an eccentric.

How do you make your a vision practical and achievable? First it has to be elaborated, refined and made more specific. Consider the following questions:

What is important to us?

The values or guiding principles.

What do we want to accomplish?

The destination or ultimate purpose.

How do we want to accomplish it?

The important goals and capabilities needed to achieve the vision.

Objectives are measurable steps on the way to those goals, they are targets that you must meet to achieve the goals. Objectives need to be measurable, so you have to decide what to measure, how to measure and how accurately to measure. Tasks are the work you have to do to achieve these objectives.

So, a vision is not a detailed blueprint, it’s a direction, a combination of what you want and what you value. From this vision you naturally set your goals. Goals are dreams with deadlines.

From the goals come a number of measurable, smaller objectives.

Also, to achieve your purpose you will need certain qualities, and your values will guide the whole journey.