1. What is a Vision?
A Vision is a description, a picture of what success looks like for your organization. Every leader is responsible for creating a shared vision for their organization and seeing it through to completion.

2. To provide focus and clarity about where your organization is going
Why?
To provide focus and clarity about where your organization is going

3. Why? Provide guidance for decision-making Shapes strategy
Aligns people and activities
Sets priorities
Provides purpose and inspiration.
Promotes our values
Brings change and hope for the future

4. Your Vision Should Be Inspirational
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”

5. Your Vision Should Be Inspirational
I have plan. I have a new process. I have a dream.

6. Examples
“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth.”

7. Examples
“Children, adults, and seniors of Alameda County do not worry about where their next meal is coming from.”

8. Examples
“We envision a barrier-free, inclusive, diverse world that values each individual and their voice. In this world, all people with disabilities enjoy the power of equal rights and opportunities, dignity, choice, independence and freedom from abuse, neglect, and discrimination.”

9. Examples
“The vision of Ducks Unlimited is wetlands sufficient to fill the skies with waterfowl today, tomorrow, and forever.”

10. Examples
We wish to establish a close partnership, increasing the ties of brotherhood, with our fellow Western Region lodges, beginning with Lodge #567.

11. Vision vs. Goals
Vision
Goals

12. Lodge Mission
The mission of the Lodge is to achieve the purpose of the Order of the Arrow as an integral part of the Boy Scouts of America in the Council through positive youth leadership under the guidance of selected capable adults.