How Do You Write A Vision Statement?
A vision statement is your ticket to success. A photograph in words of your company’s future, it provides the inspiration for both your daily operations and your strategic decisions. Without a vision statement, effective business planning would be impossible; it’s the vision statement that provides the destination for the journey, and without a destination, how can you plan the route? If you don’t have a vision statement, don’t panic. I bet you do have a vision of what you want your business to accomplish; you just need to articulate and formalize it. Here’s how to write a vision statement: 1) Examine your mission statement. As I say in my mission statement definition, a mission statement answers the question, “Why do we exist?” for a company. (I also give several sample mission statements in this article.) What is it you do well? How do you do it? (If you don’t have a mission statement already,
