"Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be." Dr. E. Fosdik

The same holds true for teams!

I’ve had the honor and privilege of working with dozens of teams over the years, in strategic planning, meeting design, as thinking partners, and for goal setting. The one thing I find most helpful, not just in the meetings, but towards overall effectiveness, is to get the team to visualize their goals together.

We use a five-step approach:

• Write out the problem- all the details and emotions that go along with it
• Write out past successes- what helped you: tools, resources, thinking patterns
• How can you apply what you found in step 2 to the current problem?
• Spend time picturing what life looks like when you complete your goal
• Make your plan for NEXT steps and measurements of success

While this might be different than some of the other change processes that most of my clients have done in the past, it works! It works every...

"Your present inadequate feeling and doing is automatic and spontaneous, because of the memories, real and imagined, you have built into your automatic mechanism. You will find it will work just as automatically upon positive thoughts and experiences as upon negative ones." Dr. Maxwell Maltz

I’ve worked with hundreds of leaders in my career and one thing many of them have in common is a feeling of insecurity, especially when they receive a new role. This insecurity leads them to 3 big issues:

• Feeling overwhelmed when solving problems,
• Indecisive when working on future vision/goals/dreams, and
• Procrastination when getting the work done.

As we work together, we find the beliefs, values, and feelings that drive their behavior. Every single time it’s some belief that was built in them from early life OR some type of imagination (i.e. worrying) that they’ve spent a significant amount of time on.

The good news is that you can spend the same amount of time thinking...