ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a simulation for understanding the leadership competencies of vision and mission. Leadership ability to build vision and mission is considered essential in the disciplines of organizational behavior and strategic management. The competencies of vision and mission enable organizational leaders to harness the groundswell capacity of an organization or institution to reach its outcomes and chart a clear path for how organizational actors achieve these outcomes. This chapter emphasizes that leadership thrives on a human-relations model of harnessing buy-in and co-authorship from organizational actors in shaping and instituting both vision and mission. Leaders-in-training who learn the principles of the human relations model are able to engage in the adult learning principles of andragogy and transformational learning. Knowledge of andragogy allows leaders to prioritize self-directed learning and draw on the collective experience of others to construct collegial problem-solving solutions. Collegial authoring of vision and mission requires supervisors and administrators to embrace a collective and inclusive style for decision making. Andragogy and transformational learning require time to construct the principles of vision and mission through collegial relations and shared leadership.
