Connecting an existing vision to your work

• Have you asked some of your colleagues how they make the link?
• Is your organizational vision hard to relate to for some reason?
• Can you develop a departmental vision that is more concrete and immediate and which supports the corporate vision?
• If you can't identify with the corporate vision, create your own, with your team, that everyone can get excited about.
• Who are your key internal customers or stakeholders?
• How well do you know their needs? What new services can you offer them to better help them be successful?
• Have you examined your team's role descriptions to rephrase them in terms that are more clearly in line with the vision?
• When you review the performance of team members do you ask them to explain how what they are doing supports the vision?
• When you discuss immediate priorities with your team, can you justify your priority ranking in relation to the vision?
• Can you set targets for your team that move you closer to your vision?
• If you cannot align your team so that measurable progress towards achieving the vision is possible then the vision may be too abstract.