Effective churches know far more about motivating volunteers, organizing by small groups, assimilating new people, casting vision, managing conflict, releasing talent, adopting innovations and communicating widely than most business people imagine.
Certainly this is an area women leaders can improve, both in perception and reality, as casting vision is among the most difficult leadership attributes.
Leadership skills involve casting vision, inspiring others, and developing relationships with your employees.
"This is an opportunity for the conference to look across the... members that we have and say who is the unifying influential leader that can cast that vision and communicate that vision and help all of us execute that vision," Flores told reporters on Thursday.
There are a few moments on here that cast visions in my head of present-day happy-go-lucky hippies in wire-rimmed glasses and ear flap ski caps having some hot chocolate-fueled hoedown, and that makes me wanna hurl.
"You have people who can cast a vision but then not implement the vision," Mr. DuBois said in an interview.
I don't want to be told to 'sit down and shut up while we cast the vision for the city.' " Similar anxieties sprung up on H Street last fall, during a failed attempt by the area's majority-white neighborhood council to ban the sale of chicken wings in a newly opened 7-Eleven (the bones attract rats and choke dogs, they argued).
"Governor Bush's job for the next few months is to let Americans know who he is as a person, the success he's had as the governor of Texas and most importantly cast a vision of what he'd like to do as president," Mr. Blunt said.
She cast a vision of a nascent social finance sector that would only continue to grow over the next 10 years, and described a burgeoning group of organisations out there who are helping to put budding social entrepreneurs — or for the purposes of this conversation, motivated public sector employees with an enthusiasm to spin out — in touch with the funding they need — not least Bridges themselves.
Typically, that executive's purpose is to "cast a vision," "lay out the strategic initiatives," or "emphasize the theme" for the event.
