Why Companies are Using "Vision Board" Workshops to Empower and Motivate Employees with the #Futureboards Method.
These days companies of all sizes are looking for new ways to inspire, empower, and motivate their employees in a way that is positive, morale-boosting, and mutually beneficial for the company, co-workers, and the employee, and often turn to "vision board" workshops.
Forget old-school vision board workshops they are so 90's.
Don't waste your company's time doing the same tired vision board workshops we were making 20 years ago. No one needs a picture of a taco on their wall, let's get real. Gone are the days of spending hundreds of dollars on magazines, and hours looking at random crap you don't want or need. That's what we did BEFORE WE KNEW BETTER.
The concept of traditional "vision boarding" (essentially a college board filled with magazine clippings of random material things and words), has been around in corporate sales teams for many years. In fact, my former boss had our team make a "magazine goal board" back in 2004 in my first corporate sales job. But, like everyone else on my team, nothing ever manifested off those boards. Her intentions might have been good, but the exercise was essentially pointless because there was no lasting motivation, or results.
Then in 2008, my world exploded when I discovered my husband's affair. At the time I'd been a stay-at-home mom for over two years, we had 13-month-old twin daughters and a five-year-old son. We'd just lost our house in foreclosure and filed for bankruptcy, so this news landed like a bomb, destroying everything in my life.
It took me several months to find a job, and when I did it came with a starting salary that barely covered rent and daycare. I was starting from the bottom in every possible way, including in my career, cold calling in a closet cubicle for my new inside sales job.
Things were so bleak back then that I began creating an alternate universe in my mind, one where I was successful, living my dream life, becoming my best self, and showing my kids the world. This fantasy made me so happy, that one day I decided to find all the pictures that went with it, hoping it would inspire me to keep dialing through all the "no's."
That was my very first #futureboard. I had no expectations, especially considering I knew the "vision board" I'd made before never worked, but honestly, I didn't care. It made me happy to look at it while I made my calls, it gave me hope that things would get better, and over time... it created a BURNING desire within me to make it happen.
Within 18 months my first #futureboard came to life! I went from a newly single mom on food stamps to a Director of Business Development. Over the next several years as I rose up the corporate ladder to VP of Sales, my income 5x, I traveled the world with my kids, wrote a best-selling book, started my own company, and am living a life I'd once only dreamed about. (READ MY STORY)
Since then, I've been teaching tens of thousands of people across the globe, how to do what I have done. Because you see... I DID NOT MAKE A VISION BOARD. I made a #futureboard, and trust me, THEY ARE NOT the same thing!
Without even realizing it, I'd tapped into how you self-created INTERNAL MOTIVATION. How you take static goals, and scary sales quotas and turn them into the big life moments and once-in-a-lifetime experiences we dream of.
And this is why companies like Nike, Sony, Verizon, Pinterest, Xerox, and many others hire me to teach their employees and sales teams how to do the exact same thing.
Unlike the olden days of pointless vision board workshops, today we know better, and companies want their employees to GET RESULTS. They want to offer cutting-edge tools from the expert who created the method. They want tangible ROI, and let me tell you my #futureboards workshops and team training, deliver astounding results. Why? Because employees are learning the skills and tools to motivate themselves with their personal dreams, and nothing is a greater motivation than that.
Think about it for a minute...
Imagine not having to push your sales team, or hound your employees to get motivated.
What if the energy at your company was positive, motivated, excited, and driven to excellence?
Imagine your employees understanding the importance of a success mindset, and what if they knew HOW to get it, and began achieving things they never dreamed they could?
Imagine they understood that having a healthy work-life balance makes them BETTER in every area of their life, including work.
What if they knew the value of having a healthy mind and body, and spent time doing things they loved that allowed them to de-stress, connect, feel passionate, and fulfilled?
What if they had all the tools, knew how to use them, and got fast results? That would make them EMPOWERED, right?
What if you, as a leader, knew how to cultivate this? How unstoppable would your team be? How massively successful would your business be?
That is what I teach. And it WORKS. What I teach is intentional, custom for every participant and proven to deliver results, unlike the old vision board workshops.
3 Reasons Why Companies Use #FutureBoard Workshops to Motivate Teams and Increase Productivity.
1. When an employee is happy, motivated, fulfilled, positive, driven, and passionate about their life, that massively impacts their work performance and job satisfaction.
But HOW do you achieve this? Employers know that there is more to life than work, but they need their employees to show up every day with a passion for their job as if it's the most important part of life. So, how do you effectively foster both attitudes? How do you encourage a fulfilling work-life balance?
Answer: You tie them both together.
My vision board workshops teach employees how to look at their life in the big picture; how to define and focus on their future as opposed to where they are today. This mentality encourages them to dream big, which by default translates to them wanting to do better at work so they can begin achieving these newly defined dreams and advancing their career through improved performance.
2. Sometimes employers need a little help motivating and coaching employees to succeed.
We've all worked with people who are self-starters, personally motivated, and as a result, are "climbing the ladder." But we've also worked with team members who just don't seem to get it. They need to be coaxed and prodded but do have the other skills needed to be successful.
The question sales managers struggle with is how do you get them to become SELF-MOTIVATED.
Answer: You teach them how to discover their potential and possibilities based on what matters to THEM.
Most people who lack self-motivation, do so because they lack belief and imagination that it could be possible for THEM. This is the reason why dangling large commission structures as the "carrot" for sales teams, doesn't work for everyone.
But what happens when that same employee starts translating those dollar amounts into how it will practically change their life. Will they finally be able to buy that house? Take that vacation? Get their kid to a better school? What does that money MEAN to them? And I know what you're thinking, "people do that now." But here's the truth, they don't. I promise you, they really don't. I've coached people of all backgrounds and all income levels for over a decade, and let me tell you, it's extremely rare to come across someone who knows how to translate set a vision for the future that looks nothing like their current reality. People don't imagine what's possible, they think about what is. But, when you teach them why it matters and the skills to create their ideal future life, it's amazing how it changes everything.
3. Companies want to improve morale and support growth and mental health.
Having your team go through a futureboard workshop is a unique bonding and connecting experience unlike any other. It provides a safe space for employees to dream together, say their goals out loud and get the tools needed to turn those aspirations into reality. Its an investment in the employees mental wellbeing that is mutually beneficial for the company.
The tools I teach corporate teams, both in my small cohort coaching and my workshops, foster positive mindset, connection, and work-life synergy. I provide the tools and strategies for employees to change or up-level any part of their life.
If you are lucky enough to have someone on your team with a positive attitude, who's driven, is always hustling, and wanting to be their very best, then you can only imagine what it would be like if the rest of your team learned how to access the same internal motivation, mindset and had a proven action plan to achieve their goals.
If you are looking for the HOTTEST TREND in personal development, a method with PROVEN RESULTS, delivered with REAL TOOLS, designed to EMPOWER your team, taught by the master and creator of the method (me!), then I'd love to chat!
As the Founder and CEO of VIVIAMO I help companies implement proven personal development tools through coaching employees and corporate teams.
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Sarah Centrella is a #1 best-selling author of several self-help books, a motivational keynote speaker, master life coach, Founder of VIVIAMO and podcast host.