Increasing Employee & Client Engagement

We are on our 7 Week Journey Through Goal Setting.  We are going to start with the 30,000 foot view…

1. Vision
2. Visualization
3. Passion
4. Clear Direction & Focus
5. Symbolic Reasoning
6. Defined Action Steps
7. Review

You can read the first article about Goal Setting & the Black Hole

We have talked about Vision before in Does Your Strategy Have 20/20 Vision - I want to take a different approach to vision right now.

The bald eagle… a symbol of our country and represents power, freedom, and transcendence.  These larger than life birds of prey, the way the soar… inspires us.  The eagle is really known for its vision.  When you hear someone reference Eagle Eye, you know they are referring to powerful, all seeing vision.

The eagle has a few distinct features.  Its eye is very large in relation to the size of the head.  It has 5x the light sensors humans do.  The have two fovea’s (the funnel shape of the retina) where humans only have one.  It is important because we see basically three colors and eagles can see five to help them locate well-camouflaged prey.  Eagles can see rabbit size objects from two miles away.  Pretty impressive huh…

We can all take away something from this majestic animal… The eagle is known for soaring at great altitudes and will fly for 50 miles scouring for the perfect target.  Our vision needs to start from the 30,000 foot view and decide an overall direction and see the entire landscape.  We do not have to look for the details yet, just the opportunities that we might want to engage.

Your vision then needs to narrow…  Eagles take in all the light possible to help them see everything.  We need to take in more info.  Be inquisitive.  ask questions, seek counsel from top people in that niche.  Do not just think the tip of the iceberg is it, go under and penetrate 3 or 4 levels deeper.  You have to have the whole playing field.  You have to know how the score is kept.  The one with the best information set…will win. 

The best visionaries have ability to see where the past has brought them, where the future will lead them tomorrow and the intuition and guts to believe in it and act upon it.

Aim Small, Miss Small… Small Details Matter…  An eagle being able to see five colors instead of three is the difference from not seeing the hidden details and not eating.  Look from every possible angle & every shade of color.  You have to take in bad info with the good and decipher which is which. 

Your vision must have  a dominant thought process…  Don’t think about fear and failure.  Be aware of the obstacles but don’t focus on them. You make your own future. The next step will be seeing what you want to see through visualization.

Become a Visionary Today.