Why All Companies Need A Vivid Vision

A Vivid Vision is vital for any great company and great COO no matter how big or small. A vision statement or mission statement isn’t good enough. Now is the time to learn to create a Vivid Vision and implement it into your company. This blog is here to teach you why.

But First, What is a Vivid Vision?

Put simply, a Vivid Vision is a document that describes what the leaders of a company envision for their company’s future and how they’ll get there. It should be around three to five pages long and include lots of detail for an inspired future.

“In the case of a Vivid Vision, visualizing […] involves picturing your business three years down the road, but not in some ambiguous, conceptual way. Close your eyes, hop in your mental time machine, and take a tour around your company three years in the future. Don’t get caught up in the realism either. Dream as big as you want to.” –?Cameron Herold

Your Vivid Vision pushes and inspires you, your employees, and anyone else around you to dream big and work hard for the future outlined in the document. It’s inspirational and unifying.

What Makes it Better Than a Vision Statement?

Vision statements and mission statements are useless. They don’t work, they have never worked, and they will never work. Why is that? It’s because of how they are made.

To create a vision statement, you get a bunch of smart people in the room. You put a bunch of your favorite words up on the whiteboard. You vote on the words. You eliminate all the words that didn’t get any votes. You then try to mash up all the leftover words into a sentence with some great adjectives and adverbs to highlight them. That’s your vision statement.

Mission statements are created similarly. They’re just a bunch of pretty words that sound nice together put into a sentence that you think will make your company sound awesome and attract clients/customers.

“Vision statements can often be impersonal and removed from the day to day work your team is tasked with.” –?COO Alliance

The truth is, that one sentence mashup that you come up with will not align with everyone. It rarely truly inspires anyone and it certainly doesn’t show anyone where you’re going.

Create a Vivid Vision Instead

Vivid Visions work. They unite everyone in your company and inspire them to do their best to make that great future vision come true.

A big, hopeful, successful future benefits everyone in your company. Seeing a Vivid Vision that shows them that will push everyone to work hard for it. That’s certainly not something a little vision statement can accomplish.

So write your company a Vivid Vision. Dedicate the time to dream up a big future for yourself. It’s certainly worth it and, who knows, it just might be fun to write along the way.

Have you tried creating a Vivid Vision before? How’d it go? Let us know in the comments below.

If you have questions or would like more information, I’d be to help. Please leave a comment below, and my team will get in touch with you!

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Cameron Herold grew up in a small town in Northern Canada. When his father, an entrepreneur, figured out that Cameron wasn’t going to fit into what they were teaching in school—because of his severe ADD—he taught him to hate working traditional ‘jobs’ and to love creating companies that employed others.

By 18, Cameron already had 14 different little businesses and he knew he loved money, entrepreneuring and business. And by 20 years old, he owned a franchise business painting houses and had twelve employees. He spent his twenties and early 30’s heading up 3 large businesses and coaching over 120 entrepreneurs. He was also the COO of 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, and during his 6.5 years he took the company from 2 million to 106 million.?

Knowing that every CEO needs a strong COO then led Cameron to start the COO Alliance in 2016. He noticed that there were no peer groups for one of the most crucial roles in the company—the Chief Operating Officer/2nd in command.