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Strategic Development is a long term, total solution process that drives company growth, realizes long term vision, and delivers results that are measurable and sustainable. The process combines needs awareness, planning & strategy, individual development, and results management that when implemented become a foundation for continuous improvement and higher levels of business performance.


1. The first area is "Awareness".
Leader-directed, positive change is not about direction but transformation. The degree of organizational awareness is the single most determining factor in managing effective change.

Organizational awareness is a level of understanding for both the organization and its leaders regarding current capacity, internal & external environments, talents, abilities, potential, and results.
Transformation cannot take place in a vacuum void of insight.

The creation of organizational awareness is a continuous process stimulated by "effective" leaders at every level of the organization. A high degree of organizational awareness improves organizational analysis, hiring and staffing decisions, team building, communication, culture, and leadership style.

Organizational awareness fosters insight that can transform "good" results into "great" achievement.


2. The next area is "Planning and Strategy".

Peter Drucker said the best way to predict the future is to create it. Organizations managed by a specific plan and strategy significantly out-perform less well-managed organizations of equal capabilities. Planning and strategy become a significant competitive advantage.

Planning and strategy are fundamental to the competitive position of any organization. Organization planning creates a document which encompasses the need of the entire organization. This plan achieves top line growth and bottom line profitability. Research shows, however that very few organizations actually manage operations by a specific plan and strategy…why?

Very simple…focus!

In many organizations, attention is centered on day-to-day operations, and leadership focus tends to be directed by situations and circumstances. This type focus diverts attention from organizational purpose.

The effective organization is directed by a results-based leadership culture focused on "What Matters Most." Planning and strategy is the result of a continuous planning process, directed and supported by top leadership.

3. The third area is "Development".
The core value of most organizations is its people. Locked behind the ingrained habits and attitudes of people lie vast reserves of unused potential for any organization. Unlocking unused potential your people is the purpose of a development process. Knowledge-based training has little influence in changing behaviors that have been developed over years of conditioning.

Every organization experiences gaps between potential and performance…"what is" versus "what could be?" Effective organizations continuously seek to narrow those gaps.

Research shows that the average organization uses only a small percentage of its existing potential. The multiplying effect of small increases in the use of potential can deliver significant overall results. This process is effective in both individual and organizational development.

An organization can transform its results by simply developing 10% of the unused potential of its people. A continuous development process builds a results-based leadership culture, effective managers and enhanced productivity.

4. Next is "Results Management".
"If it can't be measured, it can't be managed" Peter Drucker.The most well designed plan and strategy is only as good as its implementation. Failure in strategic planning is usually the result of ineffective results management.

Effective organizations measure specific, daily results that are tied directly to the plan and strategy. The overall plan and strategy become the benchmark for daily operations and long-term vision.

With a simple but comprehensive results management system, including feedback on performance provided to all team members, daily action steps become a strong motivational force.

Our Role
We help you to formulate a strategy for realizing your vision; to build a system of organizational goals driven by that strategy, with a structure that supports achievement of those goals; to clearly identify and measure both the hard and soft skill levels of your people and determine how those existing levels are impacting overall organizational performance; and develop your people so that they can achieve those goals. The outcomes of these processes are measured by the execution of a Results Management system that includes predetermined, required, quantified results. Our products and processes will substantially improve organizational results better than other "change processes" or investments that the CEO can make, if they are implemented on a continuous basis for at least one year.

Contact Information 
F. Michael Gidlewski
Business Coach and Trainer
Achievement Unlimited Inc.
571 Crestview Drive
West Chester, PA 19382
Phone: 610-793-6609
Fax: 610.672.9696
E-mail: Michael@Achievable.com