Smart Leadership: Part 3 - Inspire a Shared Vision

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When the byproducts of a Ben & Jerry’s ice cream plant overloaded a local waste treatment plant and nearly had to shut down, administrative assistant Gail Mayville found an unorthodox solution that saved people’s jobs, kept the plant open, and jump-started a new and rewarding career. What Gail and thousands of other leaders share is the characteristic of being forward-looking – of being concerned not just about today’s problems but also about tomorrow’s possibilities. They see something out ahead, vague as it might appear from a distance, and they imagine that extraordinary feats are possible and that the ordinary could be transformed into something noble. Find out how Gail solved the problem – and why leaders need to be able to look beyond the present moment to see an ideal version of the future. This SmartTeam course – which focuses on the third principle, “Inspire a Shared Vision,” will help you learn to communicate your vision clearly and enlist others in making this dream a reality. This is the third in a series of courses adopted from the highly respected book, The Leadership Challenge, written by James Kouzes and Barry Posner.

Objectives SME

Course Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, you will be able to:

Understand the importance of being forward-looking and having a vision
Discuss what constituents vision
List the common values that link everyone together
Describe how to give life to a vision

SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT: James Kouzes and Barry Posner

Jim Kouzes is chairman emeritus of the Tom Peters Company, a professional services firm which specializes in leadership development. He's also an executive fellow in the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University.

Barry Posner is Dean of the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University, located in the heart of Silicon Valley.

Jim and Barry co-authored The Leadership Challenge: How to Keep Getting Extraordinary Things Done in Organizations, which is now in its third edition (2002) with over one million copies in print. The Leadership Challenge, available in eleven languages, has been a selection of the Macmillan Executive Book Club and the Fortune Book Club. It's the winner of the 1989 James A. Hamilton Hospital Administrators' Book, the 1995-96 Critics' Choice Award, and was a BusinessWeek bestseller in 2001. Jim and Barry have also co-authored Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It, which was chosen by Industry Week as one of the ten best management books of 1993. Encouraging the Heart and The Leadership Challenge Planner were released in 1999. Based on solid research involving over 70,000 surveys, 1,000 written case studies, and 100 in-depth interviews, these books describe the leadership principles and practices that generate high performance in individuals and organizations.