Clarify Your Vivid Vision
How to clarify, write, design, and roll out a Vivid Vision: a present-tense picture of your company and your life three years out, built so your whole team can see it and move toward it.
Get a clear, three-year picture of the business and life you actually want. This topic covers: Clarify, Communicate, Design, Roll out and share, Vivid Vision in action.
How to Write a Vivid Vision: The Complete Guide
A step by step guide to writing a Vivid Vision: a three year picture of your business and life that your team can actually see and build toward.
What Is a Vivid Vision? A Plain-English Guide With Examples
A Vivid Vision is a present-tense picture of your business and life three years out. Here is what it is, what goes in it, and how it is different from a business plan.
Vivid Vision vs. Mission Statement vs. Business Plan
How a Vivid Vision is different from a mission statement and a business plan, and when to use each one.
Vivid Vision Examples: What a Strong One Actually Looks Like
Side-by-side examples of weak versus strong Vivid Vision writing, plus the pattern that makes a vision specific enough for a team to build toward.
Why Your Company Vision Isn't Working (And How to Fix It)
Five reasons a company vision fails to change anything, and the fix for each one.
Questions to Ask Before You Write Your Company Vision
The questions that pull a real Vivid Vision out of you, and the one question to avoid asking too early.
How to Get Your Leadership Team Bought Into the Vision
How to bring your leadership team into the Vivid Vision so they own it, speak to it in their own words, and roll it out to their people.
How to Roll Out Your Vivid Vision to a Remote Team
A step-by-step way to share your company vision with a distributed team so everyone sees the same picture at the same time.
How to Write Your Vivid Vision in the Present Tense (And Why It Matters)
Why a Vivid Vision is written as if it already happened, and how to actually do it without it feeling strange or fake.
How Long Should a Vivid Vision Be? (And What to Put In It)
The right length for a Vivid Vision document, what each section should cover, and why shorter and more specific beats long and vague.
Should You Share Your Company Vision With Clients and Investors?
When to share your Vivid Vision outside the company, what to include in an external version, and what to keep private.
How to Rewrite Your Vivid Vision Each Year
Your Vivid Vision is not a one-time document. Here is how to revisit and rewrite it once a year so it stays true instead of going stale.
Do You Need a Vivid Vision If You Do Not Have a Team Yet?
Yes, a solo founder benefits from a Vivid Vision too. Here is what changes when there is no team to roll it out to yet.
How to Run a Vivid Vision Retreat With Your Team
What an in-person Vivid Vision retreat actually looks like, and how to structure one if you are running it yourself.
Vivid Vision Mistakes That Kill Team Buy-In
The specific mistakes founders make that cause a team to nod politely at a Vivid Vision and then ignore it completely.
What Happens in a Vivid Vision Expander Session
A look inside the Vivid Vision Expander stage: what a facilitator actually does, and why it pushes a vision further than most founders get on their own.