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• Power of Visioning: Understand the importance of visioning and research when starting a business
• Visioning helps in establishing a strong foundation and direction for the business's future growth
• A business without a vision is like wandering in a dark forest, lacking direction and strategic moves

Business Visioning

• Envision the desired future state of your business to guide goals, decisions, and actions
• Business visioning involves creative and analytical activities to design the desired future state and strategies needed to reach it
• Vision: Creating a vivid mental image of your future business
• Mission: Translating the image into clear goals and actions
• Strategy: Defining who, what, why, when, where, how, and how much
• Visioning helps achieve goals, maintain clear purpose, create a roadmap, and provide a bigger picture
• Key questions to answer while visioning
• Optimal position for sustainable relevance
• Breakdown of the future state into goals and objectives
• Required strategies and actions for realization
• Critical Success Factors (CSFs) for measuring success and research to confirm viability

IKIGAI Discovery

• Allows you to discover your life's purpose and transform it into business goals and actions
• Helps set direction for your personal life and future business through introspection
• Elements of IKIGAI:
• Passion (What you love and are good at)
• Mission (What you love and what the world needs)
• Profession (What you are good at and can be paid for)
• Vocation (What the world needs and what you can be paid for)

Business Vision Board

• Design a vision board to visualize your dream business, including images and words representing purpose, dreams, and desires to inspire entrepreneurial opportunities
• Include goals that are visually attractive to serve as a bucket list for your business
• Vision board inclusion examples
• Desired future state
• Role model quotes
• Dream office and store
• Ideal business locations
• Core business values
• Desired quality of life
• Business purpose and goals
• Difference & impact

Wall of Ideas

• Create a wall filled with short-term, medium-term, and long-term ideas with a group
• Use predetermined trigger questions to inspire creativity and sift through ideas
• Time pressure helps avoid over-thinking and overcome creative blockages
• Gather results, trigger questions, note interesting ideas, compare boards
• Discuss the business vision board with the group for direction
• Questions for setting the vision:
• Purpose of the future business
• Core values of your business
• Contribution to society
• Goals, objectives, CSFs, and KPIs
• Cluster similar ideas under specific questions or themes, using affinity mapping
• Park less useful or relevant ideas for future consideration
• Ensure the Wall/Board of Ideas is visible

Business Vision Canvas

• A visioning exercise to co-design your vision in 5 key steps
• Helps clarify supports, challenges, and opportunities related to your vision
• Assists in identifying design criteria and business models/strategies
• Defining vision using only one sheet of paper
• Vision Canvas Elements:
• Core Values
• Vision Statement
• Supports
• Bold Steps
• Challenges

Criteria for a Business Vision

• Futuristic: business potential and purpose
• Inspiring: imagery, the business dream
• Motivational: inspires motivation in those involved
• Purposeful: ultimate direction for goals
• Unique: comparison to competitors

More Criteria for a Business Vision

• Specific
• Measurable
• Achievable
• Realistic
• Time Bound
• Believable
• Authentic
• Impactful
• Memorable
• Challenging

Actionable Steps

• Discover your personal IKIGAI
• Design a business vision board
• Create a visible wall of ideas
• Sketch a business canvas
• Express creative plans