Vision and Planning for Success

As leaders, success is rarely a matter of chance—it’s the result of intentional vision and strategic planning. At the start of a new year, it’s the perfect time to reflect, refocus, and set the foundation for the goals you want to achieve. This month, let’s explore how creating intention can transform your vision into a meaningful roadmap for success.

Why Vision Matters:

Your vision serves as your compass. It gives direction to your actions. Even the most ambitious goals can feel scattered or disconnected without a clear vision. A strong vision helps you define your "Why" and keeps you intentional around the activities, decisions, and people you will be involved with and in. In essence, it clarifies your priorities. It becomes easier to filter out distractions and rabbit trails. A strong vision helps to keep your teams committed to the direction that is outlined.

While a vision gives you the “what,” intention gives you the “how.” Setting daily or weekly intentions helps make those big-picture goals you have into actual steps you can take to reach that goal. It’s the commitment to align your mindset and actions with your vision. 

Steps to Create Vision and Intention

  1. Reflect on Your Purpose
    Ask yourself what you want to achieve, and why does it matter?

  2. Align Actions with Intentions
    At the start of each week, ask yourself, "Which actions will bring me closer to my vision?"

  3. Review and Adjust Regularly
    Success isn’t a straight line. Schedule time for reflection to celebrate wins and adjust your plan as needed on your journey.

There are a few practical steps you can take to help with keeping vision and intention at the front of your mind. Use a daily journal and write down 1-2 intentions each morning to keep yourself focused. Prioritize your calendar to make sure it reflects your priorities (not just your obligations). Share your vision with your team. When others see your "why", it may help them want to help contribute to the "how". It always helps to bounce ideas off others and hold each other accountable. 

Vision and intention are key to successful leadership. Your vision sets the destination, while your intentions fuel the journey. As you move through this beautiful new year, remember: It’s not just about achieving goals—it’s about leading with clarity, purpose, and alignment.

Questions to Consider:

What will you intentionally create this year?

What is an area in your life, career, or leadership that you need to refocus?

New Training Offering:  The 6 Types of Working Genius

 This year, I will be adding a new training to my services. As you probably know, there are many assessments out there that help people understand themselves, their personalities, and how they show up at work. So, what makes Working Genius different?

Working Genius is 20% personality assessment and 80% productivity tool. When I am conducting trainings using DiSC, it is all about helping teams really understand themselves, one another, and learn simple behaviors that can create effective relationships at work. 

Two things set Working Genius apart:

  • Simplicity
  • “Applied to work” – the art of getting things done

This tool and model really come alive when an entire team can:

  • Embrace their areas of Genius
  • Tap into one another’s talents to be successful

Working Genius:

  • Helps teams get more done in less time with higher degrees of fulfillment and improved morale.
  • Provides a language and framework for how we all fit together in the process of getting work done.

Sometimes people feel frustrated, underutilized, or misunderstood at work. Teams can experience failure or feel stuck because they don’t know how to tap into the Geniuses of those around them.

Working Genius has the potential to solve these issues and transform how you work together.

If you want to know more, send me an email, and we can discuss how this training might support your team. 

  

Leadership Spotlight: Alina Morse 

Alina Morse, now a teen, started her entrepreneurial journey at just 7 years old when she set out to create a lollipop that’s good for your teeth. She founded Zollipops, a line of sugar-free, teeth-friendly candies made with natural ingredients that help clean your teeth and balance pH levels. Her idea stemmed from a desire to enjoy candy without compromising dental health.

Alina has used her success to give back through the “Million Smiles Initiative,” which donates products to schools to promote dental health awareness. Read more about her and try some zollipops here! 

 

  Leadership Resource: Work From Home Daily Dashboard

I am always looking for great resources that would support my leaders. There is certainly never a 'one size fits all' resource when it comes to organization and productivity. When you have a moment, do check out this  Work-from-Home Daily Dashboard. The planner helps set clear goals for each day, prioritize tasks like invoices, meal prep, appointments, etc. 

With its quarterly subscription, this planner ensures you consistently track your progress and align your work with your vision for success.

Click here to order one! 

Fun Life Update:  

Thank you all for the support with my children's book. It has won its 4th award. Yeah!! It is exciting!! You can check it all out at here: www.sheebavarghese.com

This month I traveled to Lousiana to facilitate a training for a business there. While there, I had the opportunity to experience my first book signing event in a local store. For each book that was purchased, another was donated to a school or library of their choice.  It is always great to give back to schools. The first part of my life began as an educator. In many ways, it feels like a full circle moment for me these days. 

 


 

Sheeba Varghese is a strategic partner for your talent development solutions and the author of Confidence, Clarity & Ease: A Guide For Emerging Leaders To Thrive. Her passion is to inspire and equip men and women to lead with excellence and authenticity within the spheres of influence that they are called to impact in life. The spheres may be in a home, on a team, in a classroom, among partners in a firm, or within management, to name a few.

Sheeba works with: 

Senior Leaders and professionals who want to develop stronger leadership skills, have impact, and move forward in their careers

Teams who want to work cohesively within their organizations

Coaches who want to renew or apply for certification with ICF

If you want to improve your leadership skills, transition from managing to leading, ensure your team is amazingly successful, increase your self-awareness, and progress your career, or aspire to be a masterful coach for your clients, then Sheeba would love to support you. She works with clients globally, both face-to-face, by phone, or by Zoom.

In her time apart from clients, Sheeba enjoys time with her husband, Santosh, and their 2 sons, Sam and Steven. She loves great movies, a good book, decorating, and dining at the wonderful restaurants in the Bay Area.