10 Steps In Writing A Mission Statement For Teams

March 26, 2007

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A mission statement is a brief, concise statement that lends a sense of focus and direction to team efforts. The mission statement should be specific enough to serve as a benchmark for setting priorities and evaluating the value of a team's performance.

The key qualities of a mission statement are:

Its purpose is to liberate energy, mobilize, federate, ethuse, and make people think;
It should be satisfying, reasonable, equitable, ambitious, possible and consistant with corporate culture;
It should look beyond the foreseeable future;
It must be clearly expressed;
It must NOT be just an economic goal;
It must NOT be parachuted from above.

10 Steps In Writing a Mission Statement:

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