Why is Defining a Visioning Journey Beneficial?

The Visioning Journey Map clarifies your promise and journey to realization within your family, work, or community. People don’t plan to fail. But a person with a vision is like an architect designing their ideal life.

How to Use the Visioning Journey Map?

The visioning Journey Map can be used for a three—or six-month journey. A vision may span a year or longer, but using shorter time boxes for feedback will allow you to make changes as needed. You can use one—or two-week time boxes for hurdles with responses and goals with actions.

Included in the VJM practice are well-established techniques and practices.

Circles and Soup

The Circles and Soup activity helps teams and individuals recognize areas where improvement is possible. By applying this technique, you can identify the areas in which you have control (changeable), influence (persuadable), or Soup (Unchangeable).  Remember the Seinfeld TV show Soup episode?

Create Well-formed Outcomes

One of Brené Brown’s main messages is “Clear is kind—Unclear is unkind.”  We want to set our intention for the visioning journey map to be as clear as possible for ourselves and our team members.  One practice to help us achieve the ‘Clear is Kind’ state is the neurolinguistic programming (NLP) well-formed Outcomes.

The NLP Well-Formed Outcome is achieved by asking questions to ensure the goal meets all the necessary conditions. These questions focus on:

• Impact: What will impact you and others once you accomplish this goal?
• Achievability and Control: Is achieving the goal within your control? Can you start and maintain the steps needed to achieve this goal?
• Evidence Procedure: How will you know you've achieved your goal? What will you see, hear, or feel?

Use SMART goals

Use SMART goals to describe your vision, goals, hurdles, etc.

Craft a Quality Vision Statement

The vision propels you through challenges, serving as the lighthouse guiding you through storms. The Individual or team vision statement should encapsulate aspirations, dreams, and goals, guiding your personal and professional journey.

Use the Visioning Journey Map for Individuals or Teams

The cadence for developing a balanced Visioning Journey Map (VJM) can vary depending on individual and team factors like prior experience, complexity of goals, and available resources.

Go Deeper with Inquiry Throughout the Journey

Discover ways to shift your mindset and behaviors by asking transformational questions when identifying your future visions, hurdles with responses, current reality/self, and desired goals with actions.

Debrief

The purpose of a debrief is to reflect, learn from failure, and improve future performance.

Summary

Remember, the only limit is the one you set for yourself.

People don’t plan to fail. But a person with a vision is like a superhero with the power of foresight.

Start dreaming, start building, start thriving.