When you have a vision, what’s the best most effective way to communicate it?

We do not see an idea that didn’t work out as a failure, there is a process to extract the greatest from the original idea. On today’s show, Access EForms COO Davin Marceau sits down with CEO Tim Elliott and Cody Strate, VP of Strategic Initiatives. Diving into a process to understand a good idea, how to evaluate it, can it stand up to the iterative process and how to adequately communicate that vision today with this group. See more from Access EForms in the show notes below: (1:23) CEO Tim Elliott first explains how great ideas start. Sometimes a conversation can be heard, which leads to inspiration fueling the journey to another door that needs to be opened. (2:29) Without explaining context to those that don’t have a clear picture of the vision, your team will not be able to adequately attach themselves to your vision. (3:10) Even as the company grows into an organization, the need for focus only grows in importance. (4:07) VP of Strategic Initiatives Cody Strate explains these conversations can not lead to fruitful outcome, if you don’t first preference first where you started and how things progressed. (5:47) If a vision gets communicated to different departments within an organization, that idea will be heard differently and absorbed in a way that creates momentum in their own way. (7:07) CEO Tim Elliott reflects on flying to New Hampshire to get away from the regular work day and spent the entire day brainstorming on 15 different topics with VP of Strategic Initiatives Cody Strate. With that clarity of an idea session, it truly led to an empowerment towards a goal that didn’t exist prior to the session. (9:08) CEO Tim Elliott talks through the examination of the validity of ideas. He walks the team through his process for ensuring the quality of the idea can be executed against, or changed to be implemented. (10:18) COO Davin Marceau helps provide a calibrating metric to being able to assign a priority within the organization for the ideas that are set forth. (11:29) CEO Tim Elliott explains how a conversation can lead to an impact filter session, where this tool could be leveraged to explain all the courses of action as the idea goes from his head to the planning and execution stages. (12:42) When Dan Sullivan at Strategic Coach provided CEO Tim Elliott this tool of an impact filter, it empowered him to share ideas and have an understanding on what really is needed in order to execute. (13:43) COO Davin Marceau acknowledges that although the steps may be clearly laid out to the idea’s originator, the actual steps for implementation need to be flexible enough where it gives folks the freedom to implement, without compromising the idea’s integrity. (15:02) VP of Strategic Initiatives Cody Strate talks about how the time needed to draw out the plan in the impact filter serves as a speed bump for him to truly evaluate the quality of his idea. (16:08) COO Davin Marceau poses the question, CEO Tim Elliott says it’s easy for him to evaluate because he isn’t the one who needs to execute. (16:58) CEO TIm Elliott talks about the reaction to failure as a moment in time, rather than something to hold onto. (17:36) COO Davin Marceau understands that he is needed to always bring things down to the ground, versus always being a “yes man”. (18:29) VP of Strategic Initiatives Cody Strate brings into focus the importance of perspective and shares the story of the early days of YouTube and videos being upside down. (19:28) CEO Tim Elliott admits to the operator in the group that Tim may not be the best person to come to when the ideas are being considered for implementation. (21:18) A step-by-step guide on how trust is built into an organization. (22:04) CEO Tim Elliott conveys how humbling it can be to see the ugly side of idea that only an operator can provide, especially if there’s risk involved. (23:10) The iterative process of an organization goes through to take an idea from inception to implementation allows the communication of vision be much more effective. (24:09) COO Davin Marceau as the operator can provide the perspective of how much of a project can be completed and with the projected percentage, that gives CEO Tim Elliott and VP of Strategic Initiatives Cody Strate what they need in order to adequately make the decision to move forward or abandon the idea altogether. Subscribe and Follow to Maintain the “Leadership Mindset” Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/AccessEFM/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/Access_eforms?s=20 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessefm/ Tim Elliott, CEO, Access EForms - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-elliott-b84b39a/ Cody Strate, VP of Strategic Initiatives - https://www.linkedin.com/in/cody-strate-26543412 Davin Marceau, COO, Access EForms - https://www.linkedin.com/in/davinmarceau/