Reactive workstyle and vision

• Do you relish the buzz of responding to things as they arise?
• Or feel forced to react because of the speed of events?
• Either way, formulating a vision gets lost in the shuffle.
• How can you combine a reactive workstyle with a vision?
• Why is it important to you to have a vision? What benefits will it bring to you and to your team? If you're clear about what's in it for you, it will be easier to do.
• Perhaps you don't need a vision but it might be of great benefit to your team. Some of them might need clearer direction.
• Can you pinpoint the kinds of issues that call for a reactive style? This might help to clarify whether you really do need to be reactive with regard to all parts of your role.
• What aspects of your work would benefit most from having a vision?
• Despite a need to react to urgencies, what are your long term goals?
• Where are your key customers (internal/external) going and what is their vision, hence what they need from you longer term?
• What input can you get from your team? Are they closer to the details of some parts of your market than you are?
• Can you set aside time regularly to review your priorities and try to align them with your vision? If your style is reactive, can you block off time to make your vision a guiding influence in your day to day work?
• Be sure to devise a vision that is concrete enough that you will know you have arrived when you get there.