We need more brilliant Visionary leaders who can fully engage with their teams and bring about the new ideas and change that drive their entire enterprise forward.
If you are a Visionary looking to become a better leader, here are three principles you can use to harness your Visionary gifts, overcome your Visionary challenges, and become brilliant.
Alright, here's principle number 1: Put a mirror on the floor.
From their position at the top of whatever they lead or run, it can be incredibly difficult for Visionaries to get the critical feedback and insight they need to grow. For most other styles, there is someone "above" them hold them accountable, offering feedback, and demanding results.
Visionaries often don't have this by default. In a difficult team environment, it is often the Visionary that has to change the most and to change first. They think things are great, while their team is struggling desperately. They think the vision is clear, but their team is caught up in the weeds and whiplashed by each new "most important thing."
As a Visionary, then you need to know what you look like from below. How are you impacting your team?
You need your team to help you get better. You need to hear when you're leading well. You need feedback when you mess up. You need a strong challenge function from your team.
You want to start thinking in terms of we, not I, and will often have to do this intentionally and visually with your team. It will make you a better leader, and they will become better leaders by your example!
The second principle is this; you need to install blinkers. These are horse blinkers to keep you going straight ahead, not turn signals for your car. When coaching Visionaries, I often say, your job is to not only create the vision but to repeat it again and again and again.
Work with your team to identify the 3-5 most important goals you need to achieve together. Then look at how you can leverage your visionary strengths for the entire process. Otherwise, you'll immediately start chasing squirrels and dreaming of the next 3-5 initiatives then, often unknowingly, distract people and resources from the current objectives frustrating your team and crippling your results along the way.
One technique to help with this is to build a sandbox that you can "play in" somewhere you can scratch the Visionary itch to start and solve. However, and this is important, do it outside of the business or organization you lead. Buy a farm, enjoy a hobby, volunteer for a cause, lead a business group, or pursue some other passion. A sandbox will do wonders for your sanity and fulfillment without sacrificing the sanity of your team.
The final principle is to learn to love "done."
This is a hard one, and it's not for the faint of heart. For a Visionary, done is the opposite of starting and solve. I know for me, as a Visionary, done is actually a little scary. It's over, then end. The finality can be intimidating. It's a strange feeling when you stand in the moment that what is catches up with what once only could or should be.
However, within this strangeness, there is actually an immense joy. In all their longing for the next best thing, Visionaries can actually disconnect from the satisfaction of completion, leaving their heads full of ideas, but their hearts empty.
If you can learn to love done, you can experience the full joy of seeing your idea pass all the way through to completion. You will see your legacy start to materialize before your eyes. I can tell you from personal experience that there is no experience quite like it.
If you want to learn to love done, I'd encourage you, start small. Choose a task for today. When you complete it, choose a task for next week, next month, and so on. Practice returning to your vision and sharing it repeatable to your team.
If you'd like to continue to develop your Visionary leadership gifting, I'd encourage you to take our course How to be an Exceptional Visionary Leader. You'll find the link in the description below.
I hope you've enjoyed this series and can't wait to see you become a brilliant visionary leader.

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