This Kindle mini-book features exercises and workshop activities that are especially useful for people who are involved in creating, refreshing or implementing a vision for their organizations. These activities demonstrate that a ‘vision statement’ does not have to be (as they so often are) a specimen of convoluted corporate-speak or a hotch-potch of platitudes. You will enable a clear understanding of ‘vision’ as an inspiring picture of the future – a desired outcome. By drawing out their dreams you will help participants shape something meaningful and memorable, a vision that will be a genuine asset to their organization. All the activities have been personally tried and tested by the author over many years of working with a variety of sizes and types of group. Preparation is minimal – many of these exercises require only the space to work in; others are easily prepared in advance by following the guidance given here.
In order, I am a family man, an English northerner, and a freelance writer for more years than I care to remember, first as a playwright, mainly for BBC radio and a variety of education publishers, latterly as a novelist and short story writer. More recently, I have become a games inventor. My company, Creating Games, has licensed over a dozen titles in both English and foreign language editions.
2025 sees the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the world's first public railway. As part of the celebrations, my novel 'Mr Stephenson's Regret' is wearing new clothes in a Stephenson 200 Anniversary edition, and I have written a full-length stage play, 'Geordie' which is to be premiered by Cliffe Theatre in Stockton in the autumn of 2025