More Resources to Support Your 'Rockstar' Leadership Career
When you created your Vision Statement, you were setting out the direction in which you wanted to head. Now that you are developing a team mission statement, you are setting out how you will do it, and what makes you unique from all others.
As you are developing the mission statement consider each of these elements:

Here is an example Mission Statement that a team I worked with developed:

Distinctive Competence
Several people have asked me, "What do you mean by Distinctive Competence?" Distinctive competence is what sets you apart from your competitors.
It is the quality, or feature, of the organization which gives you, your unique advantage. For example, a company I worked at, our competitive advantage was our flexible, energized, innovative people.
The business's distinctive competence may be a function of:
Identifying your distinctive competence is crucial. It enables the team to focus its energies and resources in a particular direction, and continuously build upon its strengths.
Your Mission Statement Should:
Hot Tip
Never See Your Team Mission Statement as Set in Concrete.
Business, organizational and world changes dictate that your primary reason for existence and your distinctive competency will change at some point. Your intent may not change, but the way in which you deliver your product and/or service may well do so.
For example:
An organization that manufactured horse-buggies in the 1800's will possibly have quite a different mission statement today, yet they are still in the business of creating transport solutions.
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