11: How to Create a Shared Vision
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2011
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Bonni Stachowiak: Teaching in Higher Ed
Bonni is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, Dean of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Business and Management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, she was a human resources consultant and executive officer for a publicly traded company. Bonni is the author of The Productive Online and Offline Professor: A Practical Guide*.
You can’t create a shared vision without having your own vision first. It’s inappropriate for us to be dependent on others or independent from them. Rather, we need to have relationships of interdependence. Bonni mentioned a clip from the movie Spartacus which captures the power of interdependence:
Two key elements of a shared vision:
- The people involved have a shared picture of what the future looks like.
- Everyone is committed to achieving the work and working towards it together.
We discussed four steps for leaders to take when creating a shared vision:
A few books that we mentioned on this episode:
- The Fifth Discipline* by Peter Senge
- The Leadership Challenge* by James Kouzes and Barry Posner
We also mentioned Linda Krall, our favorite strategic illustrator
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| 0:00.0 | Hello you're listening to Coaching Skills for Leaders. This is episode number 11 recorded on October 29th 2011 by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to Coaching Skills for Leaders. |
| 0:20.0 | My name is Dave Stahoviac. This is the show for leaders |
| 0:25.3 | who want to develop their coaching skills so they can influence the success of others, |
| 0:29.6 | their organization and themselves. Whether you're a season leader or you're leading people for the first time, |
| 0:35.0 | improving your coaching skills will drive your success and most importantly |
| 0:40.0 | the success of others. |
| 0:42.0 | This week's topic is creating a shared vision. And before we jump into |
| 0:47.8 | talking about creating a shared vision, how did you do last week on giving constructive feedback to others? |
| 0:53.4 | I hope you had a chance to apply that tool and utilize it in giving some constructive feedback |
| 0:58.8 | or even considering how you may use constructive feedback coming up here in the near future? And would love to hear any comments you have about applying that tool or any questions |
| 1:08.8 | you have and if you have comments or questions for this show on anything. |
| 1:13.0 | You can reach out to me at 877 Learn 45. |
| 1:18.0 | Again, that's 877 Learn 45. |
| 1:21.0 | Or you can send email to feedback at innovate learning.com. |
| 1:25.8 | And of course you can find all the notes |
| 1:27.4 | for all the shows on this series |
| 1:30.6 | at innovate learning. |
| 1:31.9 | com. And I'm very excited to welcome. series at Innovate Learning.com. |
| 1:32.9 | And I'm very excited to welcome back a popular guest |
| 1:37.2 | from just a couple of episodes ago. |
| 1:39.8 | And again, someone who's very popular with me as well, my best friend and wife, Dr. |
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