If your “vision” is your destination, then you need a route to get there.

If your “vision” is your destination, then you need a route to get there.

Yet I see many organisations setting goals and improvement plans that don’t seem to be “on the route.”

🧭  I remember as a teenager in the Scouts we’d go orienteering – using a map and a compass to locate a series of random checkpoints in a certain area.  Lots of fun, a great test of our navigation skills, yet we never actually got anywhere!

📈  Compare that to a proper “expedition”, with a clear start point and destination in mind.

Now we put our skills to the test.  We’d follow the route, deal with unexpected obstacles – where the actual terrain wasn’t quite as it appeared on the map – and eventually arrive at our destination.

🏔️A very different sense of achievement.

It can be the same for annual goals within an organisation.  Each can seem worthy of itself, yet somehow their achievement doesn’t really seem to move the organisation much closer to its desired “vision”.

Don’t get me wrong.  Individual teams will see some benefit and they will develop their skills.

More that, with a clear destination in mind and a route to get there that all goals are aligned to, there is so much more that can be achieved!