Does your company have Help Desk Mission and Vision statements that incorporates the corporate business goals and objectives? Help Desk Mission and Vision statements should clearly and precisely be focused on what your business is all about and related to the technology support your Help Desk team provides. A well-defined Help Desk vision statement will provide a guide for clear and directional decisions to lead to long-term prosperity. The Help Desk mission statement will bring strategic focus of underlining goals and objectives of your Help Desk based on company values. Taking some time and defining your Help Desk mission and vision statements will pay long term dividends and help you move your Help Desk from good to great.

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Toolkits.org
Does your company have Help Desk Mission and Vision statements that incorporates the corporate
business goals and objectives? Help Desk Mission and Vision statements should clearly and precisely
be focused on what your business is all about and related to the technology support your Help Desk
team provides. A well-defined Help Desk vision statement will provide a guide for clear and directional
decisions to lead to long-term prosperity. The Help Desk mission statement will bring strategic focus of
underlining goals and objectives of your Help Desk based on company values. Taking some time and
defining your Help Desk mission and vision statements will pay long term dividends and help you
move your Help Desk from good to great.
Help Desk mission and vision statements should incorporate the goals and objectives of
the business.
You first should completely understand what your business owner or executive committee ultimately
envisions the goals and objectives of the business to be. Then determine what your Help Desk teams
mission is in meeting those goals and objectives. The mission statement should be written from the
customer’s perspective, be very specific, and it should fit with the vision for the business. The mission
should answer five questions:
What do we do?
How do we do it?
For whom do we do it?
What sets apart from our competitors?
How will you use your resources to reach your goals?

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To provide a help desk mission statement example, Build a Help Desk’s mission statement is simply;
“We provide validated industry standard knowledge by translating it into real life customer service
examples to improve support practices for Help Desk management world-wide.” Notice we did not use
all five questions but if applicable you can building yours.
A good vision statement will allow you to create effective strategies for managing the company toward
that vision. A vision statement is important to know why the business exists and why it’s worth
investing in.John Kotter writes in Forbes “70% of all employees are unknowingly misaligned with your
company’s strategic direction.” John continues with “if the vision is unclear 70% of your company
doesn’t know what they are striving toward and operating on false assumptions, your team will move
slowly and defensively rather than swiftly and proactively. Worst of all, they might be off and running,
applying valuable energy in the wrong direction.”
Here at Build a Help Desk, our vision statement is simply; “To continue to be recognized nationally by
our customers as the leading professional team building resource site for industry standard for Help
Desk support procedures”.
Help Desk mission and vision statements should reflect your company’s core values
If your company has communicated their core values, you should incorporate these into your mission
and vision statements. The major online retailer Zappos.com has ten core values and has published
them on their public website. Zappos states as they “grow as a company, it has become more and
more important to explicitly define the core values from which we develop our culture, our brand, and
our business strategies”.
In our previous examples we have incorporated the core values of customer service, industry
standard procedures, and team building into our mission and vision statements.
Help Desk mission and vision statements should be part of Help Desk agent training
All IT Help Desk training documentation and new hire material should have the mission and vision
statements incorporated into them. All Help Desk staff, including management, should be required to
review the mission and vision statements at least annually. In one on one meetings with your direct
reports or in team meetings the Help Desk staff should discuss the mission and vision statements and
what they mean. Pick out the core value keywords of the statements and have the staff identify how
our daily work reflects those core values. Only through repetitive discussion with staff will the staff
understand how critical living the values from the mission and vision statement is.
Help Desk mission and vision statements should be part of all customer communication
Your Help Desk agents should be conveying the Help Desk mission and vision statements to the
customers they support. If you have a newsletter published by the Help Desk, the mission and vision
statements should be front and center. When Help Desk agents speak to the customers on the
phone, the values in the Help Desk mission and vision statements should be reflected in their greeting
and interaction.
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