As leaders we have to be able to paint a picture in people’s minds, shape the future and to bring it to the present.

A dream is also a vision

I was at a recent New Leadership workshop with a client down in Mexico and one of the exercises is what we call a dream-o-graph, where people grab pictures from a magazine that make up whatever their dream is. They then have to paste those pictures on a whiteboard and then share their dream with everyone.

It turns out this was an interesting exercise because most people would break into tears, get goose bumps or have a hard time holding their emotions.

It was an incredible and humbling experience.…