It 's your guide an obstacle to the execution of your strategic plan?

Leadership is the catalyst who guides and oversees the strategic plan. Ineffective leadership is one of the fastest ways to kill with the implementation of a strategic plan.

Peter Drucker said that "Leadership is all about getting results." Since strategic planning is an artifact business plan supported by critical goal categories that focus on achieving specific outcomes, then the definition of Drucker is right on target.

What keeps your management team to frontline employees to achieve business results those who have invested so much time in planning? In simple terms the answer to this question is probably leadership.

Corporate America is realizing that the leadership does not have to go with the other leaders, but leadership must begin within each individual. If individuals can not achieve personal, then how can they get results from others?

Imagine for a moment a large plate collection or possession of a plate number of gifts or food. Each of these separate donations or food portions have a specific skill set as interpersonal communication, conflict resolution, decision making, planning objectives, setting goals, achieving goals, problem solving and time management.

Now look at how your organization is currently training for these set of interpersonal skills. If your standard operating practice is to address each of these skill sets separately, then you have probably built silo solutions that are not directly related to the real obstacle - the ineffective leadership.

Avoid the obstruction of solutions that are very expensive and silos that prevent you from getting those results articulated in your strategic plan. Consider the implementation of a program of leadership development in which these skill sets are joined together and not separated. Your leadership should not be an obstacle to organizational success, but rather be the spark to light a person to go where they have never gone before by doing what they have never done before .......