Vision: Discuss what it would look like to have achieved your goal. Think three to five years from now. Describe what impact you are having, what people are saying, what it looks and feels like to have achieved success. This will help clarify what your initiative is, and what it is not. It will bring to the surface hidden disconnects between what different people on your team believe you are up to. If you skip this step, you are likely to find that people are actually pushing slightly different visions. What they think to do, what actions they choose to pursue, will start diverging. The Vision discussion prevents this. It helps ensure that all of the actions your team takes become aligned along one direction, for one purpose, one vision