Vision days
Imagine if you could take a day out to focus purely on where you are going, and what else you want to achieve in your life...
The Vision Day
A Vision Day is a 1-2-1, deep-dive, coaching experience that provides a unique opportunity for leaders to take quality, accelerated thinking time out for themselves. Away from the distractions of the office or home you will gain clarity around what is next for you - in your leadership, work, career and life. Based around the PERMA* model, developed by Professor Martin Seligman at the Centre for Positive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, the day consists of one full-day coaching, with a coaching call 6 weeks later to follow up on progress.
On your Vision Day we will:
Identify what has worked for you in the past - and what hasn’t
Identify and address limiting behaviours, assumptions and blockages
Access fresh thinking around your most important issues and priorities
Identify your key strengths and values to help you navigate the future.
Identify the key questions for you to address for your future
Spend time in nature - walking and talking and connecting to values·
Identify and level-up your vision for yourself as a leader - your next chapter
Finally - create a clear action plan to take home with you. Resonant and impactful changes you can start making right away.
How does it work?
Ahead of the day there is some pre-work, including a short questionnaire and a VIA strengths survey to be completed at least 48hours before we meet. On the day, coaching runs from 10am-4pm. It is a focussed day of coaching with phones switched off (check-in at lunchtime) and a full schedule.
The morning consists of a series of mind expanding exercises to stimulate visioning and hone the key questions you want answered. At midday, we will spend some invigorating time walking, focusing on values coaching.
After lunch we work on your key questions - creating a strengths-based action plan to take your vision forward. Finally, 6 weeks after your Vision Day we have a follow-up coaching call to review progress on your action plan and talk next steps.
“Everyone should have a Vision Day, and preferably several, each at key points in their lives. We all need to be reminded of our strengths and our values, what grounds us and what drives us. This day with Jim does just that. But you will also ask yourself some challenging questions which will help you drive forwards. A great day.'“
Sam Smethers, Chief Executive, The Fawcett Society
“Jim helped bring clarity to my thinking and emboldened me to think more creatively. The vision day provided an opportunity to think strategically about my role and my future and gave me confidence to come away with a plan for next steps. He challenged me at the right moments and gently and persistently helped me reframe some of my thinking, enabling me to ditch the indecision and fears. Getting out of London to Bath was amazing – a change of scenery and a wise ear were just what I needed.”
Liz Gough,Publisher, Yellow Kite | Hodder & Stoughton
Note
“P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Those are the five elements of what free people chose to do. Pretty much everything else is in service of one of or more of these goals. That's the human dashboard.”
M Seligman, Flourish, Brealey Publishing, 2011