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?

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

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.