Gauging the Degree of Stakeholder Buy-in is Essential to Successfully Implement Your Business Plans

Every company faces major challenges or obstacles that may hinder its success. When this happens, the company leaders must implement plans to help the business get back on track. No industry knows this better today than the airline industry, especially US Airways, United, and Delta.

Glen Rock, NJ (PRWEB) December 1, 2004 -- Every company faces major challenges or obstacles that may hinder its success. When this happens, the company leaders must implement plans to help the business get back on track. No industry knows this better today than the airline industry, especially US Airways, United, and Delta.

The plans these companys leaders implement today could determine whether the airline remains in business or comes crashing down. How do company leaders go through such a difficult process to reach an outcome that is best for the company, its employees, and the consumers? Author and business performance expert Pamela S. Harper advises business leaders to Negotiate buy-in from your organizations key internal and external stakeholders before committing to detailed implementation plans."

Negotiating buy-in of key stakeholders is one of the guidelines and principles of organizational reality, represented by the acronym U.N.L.O.C.K., that company leaders need to consider to prevent strategic gridlock according to Harper. 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), she explains that 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.

As executives at the individual airlines struggle to find solutions that will work for their unique organizations, they can estimate the likelihood of successfully implementing their plans to the degree that they are able to gauge the degree of buy-in from employees, suppliers, alliance partners, consumers, and other key stakeholders.   

When stakeholders truly buy into a plan, they do more than simply agree to the proposed change. They work to overcome obstacles or assist with creating processes to compliment the new strategic option. Therefore, the sooner you win stakeholders over to your side, the more likely it is that your organization will meet or exceed its business objectives."

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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