If your team has been helping reinvent, grow or modify your business, corporate vision and mission through the pandemic, are you watching out for their well-being?

I’m not a vision quest expert, nor can I do guided meditations through a forest however, I do have a corporate vision, as I’m sure you do. My vision is to have as many people as possible feel and share in the power art has to communicate and enrich lives. “Live the power of art.©” is as much about the artists creating the work as it is about collectors living with it, companies discovering how art will communicate for them, and individuals discovering what it will do for them.

Now, more than ever, your corporate vision, purpose, goals and strategy need to be made known and reiterated to your team so they can draw on their own strengths to engage and deliver ideas that contribute to your business journey. Through these unsettling times, it is critical to have your team feel confident that your leadership, strategies and engagement will ensure their success.

comprehension

engage the whole team
As a painting’s title allows you access to an artist’s concept, your corporate vision statement will allow team members access to the ideas and goals of your company. Convey your vision to your team in a new way. You can have them participate in the creation of a visual presentation of your vision ­— a pictorial view of it, a collage of elements, or maybe a video. Having them demonstrate their understanding of the vision will both reiterate it and show you if there are any breakdowns in reception.

measure success
You probably have measuring tools in place that demonstrate ‘success’ by your team members with hard numbers - sales quotas, outreach objectives, meeting participation. How about the ‘soft’ successes like a great google review, client letters, unique solutions by a team member? How do you acknowledge these successes to resonate with the member, in turn the team culture, and ultimately the continued growth of the organization?

strategy

individuals
Feeling heard, valued and appreciated are positives that we all seek.
Acknowledgment can be as simple as a handwritten note or a phone call.

engage the team member  
Identify a success. Have the individual responsible for it present to your team - sharing the actions they took, what the solution did for the customer or company. Their involvement gives you the opportunity to recognize the member, and creates a peer-to-peer experience. With that member you might explore how that could transfer to other members actions and have them deliver the message to the whole team.
ongoing contributions
In our growing virtual world it may actually be easier to have your team participate in sharing ideas and thoughts. You could start a chat room, a blog for the team where anyone can contribute, a private group, brainstorming breaks. And, once in a while do a ‘safe’ gathering or activity to make sure they still feel connected and grounded with the team. Always, always, ensure that you are monitoring and responding to their input. Accountability and responsibility both by the team members and leaders are essential.
Enabling involvement and contributions on your quest to achieve the vision will ensure ongoing engagement.