Evaluate Your Companys Strategies During the Final Business Quarter -- October is International Strategic Planning Month

Every business or organization needs to implement some type of strategy to achieve their goals, and this involves planning. Strategic planning is a systematic and continuous process of evaluation, decision, implementation, and measuring.

Glen Rock, NJ (PRWEB) October 6, 2004 -- Every business or organization needs to implement some type of strategy to achieve their goals, and this involves planning. Strategic planning is a systematic and continuous process of evaluation, decision, implementation, and measuring.

October marks the final quarter of the year and is International Strategic Planning Month" because it is a perfect opportunity for businesses, organizations, and individuals to review the results of their efforts to date, make adjustments to meet this years goals, and begin thinking about next years goals. This month and throughout the year, proactively seek ways to improve your companys strategic planning and identify hidden roadblocks that may hinder your success. Author and business performance expert Pamela S. Harper states, When you know what assumptions may block your strategic planning, you are better prepared to think through these and work together to advance your organization."

In her book, Preventing Strategic Gridlock: Leading Over, Under & Around Organizational Jams to Achieve High Performance Results (Cameo Publications, $19.95, ISBN 0-9715739-4-8), Harper helps company leaders avoid hidden roadblocks and more smoothly execute implementation with strategic thinking and planning. She states, Too often, leaders conduct strategic thinking and planning without fully considering all six of the guidelines and principles of organizational reality." These guidelines and principles are represented by the acronym U.N.L.O.C.K.® As Harper explains, business leaders need to Understand the full challenge, Negotiate buy-in of key stakeholders, Locate cultural advancers and blockers, Organize relevant goals, priorities, and action plans, Communicate credibly, and Keep adjusting.

Using Harpers U.N.L.O.C.K.® process will help your company avoid what she calls strategic gridlock": the mysterious paralysis that occurs when persistent organizational problems snarl business performance. This month, take the steps to proactively seek ways to improve your companys strategic planning, and then carry this mindset through the rest of the quarter and into the new year. Harper advises, In this turbulent business landscape, none of us is immune from inadvertently driving our organizations into strategic gridlock. However, when you uncover the hidden roadblocks that occur during strategic thinking and planning sessions and apply the steps of U.N.L.O.C.K.®, you will find a faster and smoother route to transform your business strategies and initiatives into high performance."

Pamela S. Harper helps business leaders transform their strategies into high performance results by identifying seven roadblocks that stall success and the keys to unlock them. Founder and president of Business Advancement, Inc., Pam bases her in-depth knowledge of the impact of organizational issues on business growth on her 20 years of internal and external consulting to leaders of entrepreneurial, middle market, and Fortune 500 companies.

For more information or a review copy of Preventing Strategic Gridlock: Leading Over, Under & Around Organizational Jams to Achieve High Performance Results, please call 1-866-372-2636 or send an email to Amy@cameopublications.com.

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