Search CCRI 
Criteria for Judging Effective Statements
Criteria for Judging Core Values
The values of an organization are…
- Guiding principles for how we do business
- Underlying beliefs about what is important to us as an organization
- Critical to success of our organization and support the achievement of our mission
- Drive the behaviors we want to model with our students and ourselves
- We create and embrace them together
- Source: http://www.ibma.org/about.ibma/strategic.plan.asp
Criteria for Judging Vision
Several Criteria may be applied to evaluate a Vision Statement:
- Future-oriented, deriving from reasonable assumptions about the future
- Idealistic, envisioning a future that is beyond the present
- Appropriate, fitting with the unit’s history and culture
- Inspirational, encouraging enthusiasm and commitment
- Purposeful, articulating an image of the desired future
- Ambitious, causing members of the unit to stretch to reach it
- Source: http://www.oie.eku.edu/SPManual/howto.php
Nanus (1992) maintains that the "right vision" has five characteristics:
- attracts commitment and energizes people
- creates meaning in workers' lives
- establishes a standard of excellence
- bridges the present to the future
- transcends the status quo.
- Source: http://www.sedl.org/change/issues/issues23.html
Criteria for Judging Mission
The suggested criteria for an effective mission statement are that it:
- Is short and sharply focused, yet broad in scope
- Is clear and easily understood
- Defines why we do what we do; why the organization exists
- Does not prescribe means
- Provides direction for doing the right things
- Addresses our opportunities, matches our competence
- Inspires our commitment
- Says what, in the end, we want to be remembered for
- Source: http://www.pfdf.org/leaderbooks/sat/mission.html
