Corporate Education. Learn. Grow. Succeed.

Instructor: Beverly Collins ParnellClass Three

Date: Winter 2012

• What is your Leadership Legacy?• What’s the purpose of vision and mission?• How can you evaluate a mission statement?• Why is this important to our work as leaders?

• Your legacy will be revealed in how your colleagues, employees and others think and behave as a result of the time they spent with you.• Leave a legacy that reflects your best qualities!

• Ambassador• Advocate• People Mover• Truth-seeker• Creative Builder• Experienced Guide

• Vision = • What is the future you want to create?

• Mission = • What do we do? • For whom do we do it? • What is the impact? • Our mission is what we do best every day, and our

vision is what the future looks like because we do that mission exceedingly well.

• For VISION —– think: leading with inspiration and courage, obsessed with future possibility

• Vision is one of the least understood - and most overused - terms in the language...when you have superb alignment, a visitor could drop into your organization from another planet and infer the vision without having to read it on paper." -- Jim Collins, Author of Built to Last and Good to Great

• 1. Builds a bridge from present to future• 2. Molds meaning• 3. Attracts commitment

The City of Tacoma is recognized as a livable and progressive international city, regarded for the richness of its multi-

cultural population and its natural setting.

• A mission statement is a statement of the purpose of a company or organization. The mission statement should guide the actions of the organization, spell out its overall goal, provide a path, and guide decision-making. It provides "the framework or context within which the company's strategies are formulated."[

• A Mission Statement is defined as, “a long awkward sentence that demonstrates management’s inability to think clearly.” All good companies have one.- The Dilbert Principle

• Video Clip: Ugly Sweaters

• Unity & purpose• Focus• Motivator

• Increases everyone’s understanding of the goals & objectives

• Clarifies major concepts• Improves day-to-day

focus & day-to-day consistency

• Builds shared values & beliefs among all levels of people

• Communicates intentions to customers & employees

• Provides framework for decision making

• Purpose and aim(s) of the organization• The organization's primary stakeholders:

clients/customers, shareholders, etc.• How the organization provides value to these

stakeholders, for example by offering specific types of products and/or services

Mission Statement-We provide high-quality, innovative and cost-effective municipal services that enhance the lives of our citizens and the vitality of our neighborhoods and businesses through teamwork, integrity and

continuous improvement in partnership with our community.

• Our Mission• Tacoma Public Utilities provides services that are vital to our

quality of life.

• What 3 things stood out most for you today?

• Review Homework Assignment Due Week Four

• Break into your groups to work on team presentations on leadership articles for week four.

• Team project leader: confirm final project topic with instructor today.

THANK YOU!THANK YOU!

The TCC Corporate Education TeamCorporate-ed@tacomacc.edu

253.566.5020

• Team One• Kirk S• Mike Reece• Mike Robinson• Bill U• Jon B

• Team Two• Melanie P• Charlotte C• Lynn B• Barb N• Josh N

• Team Three• Darren H• Rick F• Jim F• Steve S• Bill L

• Team Four• Kari H• Lori D• Travis D• Curt O• Justin F

• Team One• Irina K• Linda L• Carmen T• Trent H• Craig W

• Team Two• Mike D• Jim U• Robert G• Kurt F• Derrick W

• Team Three• Troy I• Tom S• Pat L• Justin A• Marie C

• Team Four• Rachel A• Mike A• Steve W• Rich W• Shane S