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Direction Setting
Giving teams a shared destination and clear boundaries, so they can make choices without you.
What is Direction Setting?
Giving teams a shared destination and clear boundaries, so they can make choices without you.
What you learn
A direction is useful only if it changes what teams choose.
When it helps
several teams need a shared outcome for the year and clear boundaries for choosing their work.
Use it at work
- Write what should be different for people in a year.
- Write what you won’t do, to set boundaries.
- Test it on real choices your teams face this month.
- Repeat it until teams use it to decide without you.
Your output
Take your team’s current vision. Name one choice it would change this month. If you can’t, rewrite it until you can.
Watch for
Writing a vision so broad that every team keeps doing what it was doing.
Related practices
- Outcome Definition
- Alignment Building
- Portfolio Planning
- Creative Stability
- Design Principles
- Art Direction
- Innovation Strategy
- Objectives & Key Results
Sources
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