establishing an Effective organizational vision

vision

• Goal - Develop clear and succinct description of organization
• What will organization look like if it is successful?
• How is success defined?
• Vision goes well beyond the mission statement
• Vision is the collective dream of the organization

ingredients of the vision

• Mission
• Philosophy and Core Values
• Ethical Standards and Best Practices
• Goals & Strategies to get there
• Performance Measurement 

How to Create a Vision?

• Emphasize purpose, behavior and performance.
• Set the expectations for the public and define public value.
• Keep it short, Keep it inspiring.
• Define organizational uniqueness.
• Pose a challenge.

In practice

• Circulate widely among key stakeholders, constituents, and public
• Need to make a decision?  Use the vision as your guide and compass.
• Identify roles to make vision a sucess
• Use vision to create efficiency and process management around goals
• Claim the future.  Use the vision as a development tool

building the team

• Recognize barriers together
• Motivate and provide a vocation tied to a calling
• Provides leadership and management with clear guidance
• Promotes adaptation and resilliance
• Promotes virtue through justified permission and legitimized ends. 

Belfast in numbers

• Merger of 6 social services 
• Deliver services to 340,000 citizens of Belfast
• Budget = $1.69 billion   |    Staff = 20,000
• Treat 117,000  |  75,000 day patients/yr.  |  170,000 ER patients

Belfast Vision Breakdown

• Purpose
• Public Value = Health Gain
• Business Case
• Five Objectives

Objectives: A Closer look

• Safety & Quality 
• Modernization
• Partnerships
• People
• Accountabilities & Decision Rules

Learnings from belfast

• Grand Strategy for operational and major planning initiatives
• Consists of statement of purpose, principles for collaboration & values
• Vision = Guide for Implementation
• Vision evolves with organization
• Vision codifies what Belfast does while charting direction

Making it happen

• Vision more than improving effectiveness
• Develop habit of strategic planning (2-3 cycles help)
• List the Plan (recommended 10 pgs) publish and share
• Ensure vision grows from past successes
• BE INSPRIATIONAL.  PROMPT CHANGE

making it happen

• Have teams draft visions to compare