How to hear God as a leader and not drive people crazy

What is the best way as a leader to shut down conversation and a collaborative process? How can you lead your team towards a new vision and leave a lot of people behind?Say, "God told me that we should do ______."When a leader makes an announcement based on the authority of a dream or a vision or a strong impression from God, a certain percentage of people are stirred to action.But many people are left behind, because they did not feel any ownership in the development of the vision. Although they may not initially counter your ideas in public (who wants to question God?), internally they are left with questions and critiques that, if they go unanswered, may eventually sabotage the execution of the vision.I have always had strong impressions from God, and I have almost always been a leader. There are many moments after receiving vision from God when I feel like my face must be glowing and what I have written down in Evernote might as well been written by God in stone tablets.I remember being on a leadership team in college where everyone went out to pray to hear God about the future of our organization. I came back with several written pages of what I felt God wanted us to do.I ended up in conflict with others who couldn't accept what I had so clearly heard from God. It was hard for me to engage in conversation about doing anything other than what I thought God was telling me.Hearing God as a leader is not easy, especially when you want to have more people involved in the execution of a vision than yourself. I have made some significant mistakes in this area.But I have also had many successful times of hearing God and seeing a whole team engage in a vision. Here are several key lessons that you can consider as you go from revelatory experience to sharing vision with your team:

1. Scale the vision down to its most core elements - In the moment when we receive a vision from God, our mind, full of creativity, often makes a myriad of other decisions. Although these good ideas often feel revelatory, they are not the word of the Lord. We need to be able to cut through those ideas and make sure that we are presenting as revelatory only the core part of the vision. The best way to separate out God's vision from good ideas is to write it all down and come back to it later. Time will often bring clarity to this process.
2. Announce and articulate all aspects of the vision that aren't set in stone - Most people want to feel like they are a part of the vision-development process, so if you can intentionally enroll them in helping making decisions about what hasn't already been decided, they will more quickly buy in to the pre-determined core of the vision.
3. Recognize that people aren't receiving the vision in the same way you did - Any time another person presents a vision verses when we get a vision ourselves from God, the process of vision-adoption will look different. We can't expect people to have the same feelings of awe and wonder that we felt when the idea first came to us. It feels different to be in the middle of prayer and get a brilliant thought than to sit there and listen to somebody who thinks their thought is brilliant. The rush of revelation that brought you buy-in will not be there for them. You can try to recreate that by being really inspiring, but it still won't feel the same. The process of buy-in will take longer, and so it's important to give people the time they need to see what you are seeing.
4. Recognize that in the end, you might be wrong - I remember having a dream and being so certain that things were going to go a certain way and then they didn't. It was hard for my staff members to trust my leadership after that. Whenever we hear God for someone else, we always say, "It seems to me", or "I get the sense that."  We don't say "thus saith the Lord" as it doesn't give people the opportunity to check the word themselves. We should apply these same lessons to presenting vision. We can also use words like, "It seems like", or "I felt like God was saying to me," so that people can test the vision that God is speaking to us.

There's a reason why Paul prays for the spirit of wisdom and revelation. When we get revelation, we need wisdom, especially when we get that revelation as leaders.Do you have any other tips as to how to communicate God-inspired visions to others?