“I’m more interested in what we can do to inspire our people and bring out their best. I need my team to walk into a meeting thinking that we’re going to talk about the impossible, and walk out of the meeting believing it’s achievable. Our current presentations just aren’t getting them to visualize the possible. If they can’t visualize it, they’re not going to accomplish it.”
Above is a quote from a recent meeting I had with corporate executive. He obviously sees the need for improving business presentations.
Current business presentations are bland, boring, and ineffective. The team walks in expecting to be bored and walks out on the verge of being comatose. Inspiration has been unceremoniously kicked out of meeting rooms all across corporate America. And the executive are to blame.
Executives, managers, and other leaders are told to lead by example. I would recommend that you lead by vision. What is the vision you have for the organization? Where are you headed? How are you making the world a better place? How are you improving the lives of the people you serve? What is the big picture?
As a leader within a company, it is your job make the impossible seem achievable. You are the person who has to plant the seed of inspiration in every team member of your organization.
If you fail in this endeavor, you will always be fighting an uphill battle. You will be a one-man army in a forest of nay-sayers. You need to harness the power of language and persuade your people to see the vision that you see so clearly. Once everyone sees the target in front of them, it’s only a matter of time until the goal is accomplished.
Creating a self-fulfilling prophecy within your organization lies with your ability to communicate your vision.
