{"id":7986,"date":"2023-12-15T07:22:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T13:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/?p=7986"},"modified":"2023-12-15T07:22:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T13:22:44","slug":"3-ways-to-make-sure-nostalgia-doesnt-hijack-your-vision-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/15\/3-ways-to-make-sure-nostalgia-doesnt-hijack-your-vision-4\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Ways To Make Sure Nostalgia Doesn\u2019t Hijack Your Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Nostalgia can have an important place with your team or organization. But if you\u2019re not careful, nostalgia can hijack your vision.<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u201cWe may be small now, but there was a day\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cWe may not have a lot of impact now, but there was a day\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cWe may be struggling now, but there was a day\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n

When\u00a0you hear these kinds of wistful, nostalgic reflections it\u2019s a warning sign that vision has been replaced by a memory\u2026<\/p>\n

I was once part of a team who couldn\u2019t seem to stop wallowing in the memory of how we had rallied to provide community aid during a natural disaster\u202615 years earlier! Clinging to that memory had seemingly stopped us from moving forward.<\/p>\n

Nostalgia had hijacked vision.<\/h3>\n

The challenge for leaders is that accomplishments of the past are very often the \u201chappy place\u201d for people on the team. People love to relive achievements of a former time and they\u2019ll cling to these memories at the expense of grasping a new, forward-looking vision.<\/p>\n

So how do you move people past their former glories and towards a fresh, exciting new vision?<\/p>\n

The most effective leaders I know handle this transition sensitively and masterfully with these 3 strategies.<\/p>\n

1. Don\u2019t blast the past<\/strong><\/h3>\n

It can be frustrating for a forward-looking leader to have to deal with all of this nostalgia. But resist the temptation to cast aspersions on those former glories.<\/p>\n

If you begin ridiculing or scoffing at earlier accomplishments you\u2019ll only alienate those you need to bring forward with you.<\/p>\n

2. Celebrate the\u00a0values<\/u>, not the accomplishments<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Remind people of the important values that were represented in those former achievements.<\/p>\n

The leader of our nostalgia-obsessed team did just that. Wisely, he began to remind us that what was worth celebrating was not the activity itself, but the value of community impact it had represented.<\/p>\n

3. Leverage this value to create forward energy<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cWe lived out that value before\u2026It\u2019s time to live it out again!\u201d<\/p>\n

That was the rallying cry\u00a0our leader used to build a bridge between the former memory and the new vision.<\/p>\n

He created discussion forums where people could openly share their own perspective on what an updated, relevant expression of that value might look like today and in the future.<\/p>\n

The point is, effective leaders harness the energy of the memory to provide fuel for a new vision.<\/p>\n

If your team has seen the vision hijacked by a memory, embrace these strategies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a day\u2026\u201d can soon become \u201cI have a dream.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nostalgia can have an important place with your team or organization. But if you\u2019re not careful, nostalgia can hijack your vision. \u201cWe may be small now, but there was a day\u2026\u201d \u201cWe may not have a lot of impact now, but there was a day\u2026\u201d \u201cWe may be struggling now, but there was a day\u2026\u201d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1021,7,584],"tags":[984,1079,658],"class_list":["post-7986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-courage","category-leadership","category-vision-2","tag-leadership","tag-nostalgia","tag-vision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7987,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986\/revisions\/7987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}