Leader Card Series - VISIONARY
Welcome back to our Summer Leader Card Series. Today's card is for all of you leaders wanting to be more visionary. Are you ready?
A leader is VISIONARY. I plan for the future with creativity, imagination, and inspiration. I move toward change, cultivating a plan that is strategic.
That is a visionary leader. So, let me read you the start-of-day practice questions for reflection. At the start of your work or day or whenever you're listening to this dear leader, that is your leader card, and I want you to be reminded of it throughout the day. So write down ‘’a leader is visionary’’ and then take 10 minutes to journal or reflect on the following questions:
How am I embracing this intention in my leadership or with my team right now?
How will I strive to make this word impact my day based on the plans, work, and conversations I have ahead of me?
As a leader, what would change if I truly embodied this word and was truly a visionary leader?
A leader is VISIONARY. I plan for the future with creativity, imagination, and inspiration. I move toward change, cultivating a plan that is strategic.
You have such a need for visionary leaders. So, when you get to the end of your day, I want you to reflect and do a developmental check-in for yourself on your visionary leadership that you integrated throughout your day with the following questions:
How did this leader card impact or influence the way I lead myself today and/or lead my team today?
Did it change how I approached a specific situation as a leader, or could I have done something differently?
How will I continue to integrate this intention more authentically into my daily leadership in the future?
There is such a need for visionary leadership, and my hope is that you can put that one at the forefront of your development, especially in a season of summer, when you are thinking through all the ways you might be getting back into a rhythm in a couple months when we head into the second part of the year, more rejuvenated because we took vacations, more clear on our purpose and our meaning because we spent more time with family, or more energized because we're getting back into routine and rhythm.
So think about the ways that you will be visionary. Don't be afraid to let yourself dream a little bit. So often, we are stuck in a rat or a season where we are down on the dance floor, and we are shoulder to shoulder with the people we are working alongside or working for, and we're having fun, we're driving, but it's hard to see the big picture when you were down on the dance floor.
Consider what it would look like to walk up the stairs to the balcony, look down on that dance floor, and see the bigger picture by stepping back. When you have that balcony view of everyone around you and the pieces that are in place, you've got the DJ to one side, the disco ball over here, crowds of people grouped by friendships or relationships, you have the people who are standing by the bar or the food table or whatever it might be:
What does it look like to be able to step back and have a little bit of a better picture, so that then you can move forward and make some decisions with a vision at the forefront?
Big picture vision is meaningful for leaders. I hope you get to be a little bit strategic as you're working through this one.
Cheers!