What is a vision board party?

It is a get-together where everyone makes a collage of pictures that show the year they want, then shares a little about it. At work it usually runs as a 60-minute vision board workshop, with prompts about career, skills, the team, wellbeing and life outside work.

How long should a vision board workshop take?

An hour is enough at work: 30 minutes of clipping and building, plus time to set it up, name one goal and share. Social vision board parties often run 90 minutes or more because people chat while they cut. The 60-minute agenda on this page gives the timings.

What supplies do you need for a vision board party?

A board for each person, scissors, glue sticks, a big stack of varied magazines and catalogs, markers and sticky notes. Ask people to print a few of their own photos a week ahead, and keep a bin bag on each table for scraps.

Can you do a vision board activity virtually?

Yes. Give everyone one slide in a shared deck, or one frame in a whiteboard app your company already uses, and run the same agenda on your video call. For a hybrid group, people in the room work on paper, photograph their boards and add them to the deck.

What should you put on a vision board for work?

Pictures of the work you want more of, a skill you are building, a project you would be proud of, how you want the team to feel, and the habits that keep you well. Many people add one or two things from life outside work too, because that is part of the year as well.

Is a vision board activity appropriate for work?

Yes, when sharing is optional and the prompts stay on career, skills, team and wellbeing rather than money, family plans or health. Say at the start that nobody is assessed on their board, and let people take their boards home.

When is the best time to host a vision board party at work?

January kickoffs are the classic slot, but the start of a fiscal year, a team offsite or the weeks after a reorganization work just as well. Anywhere a team is looking ahead, a vision board gives everyone a picture to start from.

How do you follow up after a vision board workshop?

Within a week, each person turns one picture into one written goal with a date. Run a 10-minute check-in after 30 days and revisit the boards each quarter. Our SMART goals examples help with the first step.

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Vision board party at work: a 60-minute plan and 30 prompts

Everything to run a vision board session with coworkers in one hour, in the office or on a video call. Prompts copy with one tap.

KraftyLab TeamUpdated Oct 20267 min read

Four coworkers at a table cut and glue printed photos onto cork boards.

A vision board party at work is a vision board workshop with the party left in: everyone makes a collage of pictures that show the year they want, names one goal from it, and shares as much as they like. It fits a January kickoff, a new fiscal year or an offsite. This plan keeps it to 60 minutes, keeps the prompts work-safe and ends with a follow-up, so the boards turn into something more than wall art.

What you need for a vision board party

In the room

One board per person, plus spares. Poster board, card stock or a small cork board.
Scissors and glue sticks. One each is best; one pair per two people works.
A big pile of magazines and catalogs. Travel, food, home, nature, science and business, so every interest is covered.
People's own photos. Ask everyone to print five to ten a week ahead.
Markers and a few fine pens. For a word or two on the board and the goal line.
Sticky notes. Each person writes their one goal on one.
Pins or washi tape. Only if you use cork boards.
A timer on the screen and a quiet playlist. Instrumental keeps people talking less and cutting more.
A bin bag per table. The scraps pile up fast.

On a video call

One shared slide deck. One blank slide per person, named, shared so everyone can edit.
Or a whiteboard app you already use. Miro, Mural, FigJam or Microsoft Whiteboard: one frame per person.
Images people can use. Their own photos, or free stock photo sites (check each site's license).
The prompts on screen. Paste them into the meeting chat too.

The 60-minute vision board workshop agenda

Seven blocks that fit a one-hour meeting slot. The host keeps time; everyone else just makes.

Welcome and why (5 minutes). Say what a vision board is: a collage of pictures of the year you want, at work and outside it. Say out loud that sharing is optional.
Pick two or three themes (5 minutes). Show the prompts below. Each person picks the themes they care about; nobody has to cover all five.
Quiet clipping (15 minutes). Cut or save every picture that catches your eye. No gluing yet: collect first, decide later.
Build the board (15 minutes). Sort the pile into groups, drop what no longer fits, then glue or drag the rest into place.
Name one goal (5 minutes). On a sticky note: one thing from the board to work on in the next 90 days, and the first step.
Share in small groups (10 minutes). Groups of three or four, two minutes each: show one picture and say why. Passing is fine.
Close (5 minutes). Everyone photographs their board. Put the 30-day check-in on the calendar before people leave.

Five ground rules to say at the start

Sharing is optional, with the group and with the manager.
Nobody is assessed on their board. It is not a performance review.
Money, family plans and health stay off the prompts; people add them only if they want to.
No comparing boards, and no prize for the best one.
Boards belong to their makers. Ask before you pin one up or post a photo.

30 vision board prompts for work

Six prompts in each of five themes. Put them on a slide or paste them in the chat; people look for pictures that answer them.

Career

1
Picture a good workday a year from now: what are you doing?
2
Which project would you be proud to show someone in 12 months?
3
What part of your job do you want more of next year?
4
What would you like people to come to you for?
5
What does your next career step look like, as one picture?
6
Where would you like your work to take you: a place, a stage, a customer?

Skills

7
One skill you want to be noticeably better at by next year.
8
A tool or craft you have meant to learn for a while.
9
Who do you want to learn from this year?
10
What could you teach others if you had one hour?
11
A course, book or certificate you want to finish.
12
Something you find hard today: what would being good at it look like?

Team

13
What does our team look like in its best week?
14
One thing you want our team to be known for.
15
A win you would like us to celebrate together next year.
16
How should a new teammate describe us after their first month?
17
What would make working together easier, as one picture?
18
A tradition you would like this team to start.

A smiling woman in a bright office holds up a collage of travel, nature and food photos.

Wellbeing

19
What does a good end to a workday look like for you?
20
Where do you recharge best?
21
One habit you want to keep, however busy it gets.
22
What does a calm Monday morning look like?
23
How do you want to feel at the end of next year?
24
One thing you will say no to, to make room for something better.

Life outside work

25
A place you want to see.
26
Something you want to make, build or grow.
27
A hobby you want to start or come back to.
28
A skill just for fun: an instrument, a language, a dish.
29
A way you want to give back to your community.
30
A small adventure close to home.

Virtual and hybrid vision board parties

The same agenda works on Zoom, Teams or Google Meet. Only the board changes.

Shared slide deck. Make one slide per person with their name on it and share the deck so everyone can edit (Google Slides help, PowerPoint help; menu names can change, so check the help page).
Whiteboard app. If your company already uses one, give each person a frame. Boards sit side by side, which makes the sharing round easy.
Hybrid. People in the room work on paper, then photograph their boards and drop them into the deck, so everyone ends up in one place.
Time zones. Run it twice with the same deck, and let each group see the other’s boards afterward.

How to make the goals stick

Most vision boards end up in a drawer. Five small touches keep them in sight.

Same day. Everyone keeps a photo of their board as a phone or desktop wallpaper.
Within a week. Each person turns one picture into one written goal with a date.
After 30 days. A 10-minute check-in at the start of a team meeting, with the questions below.
Each quarter. Look at the board again and swap out the pictures that no longer fit.
In one-to-ones. Managers ask if there is anything on the board they can help with, and leave it there if the answer is no.

For the written goal, these SMART goals examples show how to give it a number and a date.

30-day check-in questions

1
Which picture on your board still pulls at you most?
2
What is one step you have taken toward it since we made the boards?
3
What got in the way?
4
Is there anything the team could do to help?
5
Which picture would you swap out now, and for what?

Looking for more ways to start the year? Try our New Year team activities, the Bucket List coach interview or these gratitude activities.

Run it with a host

Want someone else to lead it? These live sessions fit a vision board week, before or after the boards.

Before the boards: Manifest a Positive Mindset covers reframing and visualization, with discussion and practical exercises.
After the boards: Goal Setting & Goal Getting turns big wishes into clear, actionable goals, with ways to stay motivated and get past obstacles.
Something to keep: Gratitude Journaling ships a journaling kit to every guest, with a small blank notebook to keep, for a hosted hour of journaling techniques and prompts.
Each runs live for an hour on Zoom by default (Teams, Google Meet or Webex on request). Book about 2 weeks ahead, or 3 weeks for the journaling kit. For a January kickoff, book before the holidays: December dates fill first. Teams split across time zones can run it as two sessions.

Three live sessions, with today’s price.

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