GPS Survey™

Why Participate?  

Your management, your board, your stakeholders and your regulators all benchmark your institution’s financial performance. Tracking performance helps you set measurable targets and monitor your financial institution’s performance. Now, benchmark your bank’s strategic performance. Prepare for your annual planning session by monitoring critical strategic priorities and tracking the strategic thinking of the industry.

In a strategic alliance partnership, Saber & Associates and Parliment Consulting Services assist community financial institutions throughout the country with strategic planning. Both companies are recognized nationally for their respective work with creative “change agent” strategic thinking. The GPS Survey™ can be used to prepare for your annual strategic planning session regardless of whom your financial institution may use to facilitate your annual or bi-annual planning meeting.

The GPS Survey™ is an efficient, cost-effective online pre-planning survey that will assist your financial institution through the process of developing or updating a strategic plan. The GPS Survey™ will help your management team and your Board assess internal and external information about your financial institution and enable further determination of short- and long-term priorities. This pre-planning survey offers 6 guaranteed deliverables as return on your investment:

1. Provides the Answers!
   Assesses strategies necessary for high-performance banking.
    

2. Bridge the Gap!
   Understand the discrepancies between perception and reality.
    

3. Unprecedented Clarity!
   Your bank’s prioritized opportunities.
    

4. Focus!
   Understand the 5 most important strategic priorities.
    

5. Comparative Database!
   How does your institution “stack up”?
    

6. Build Prepared Minds!
   Ensure that key managers have a solid understanding of business priorities.
    

The key to a sustainable increase in earnings is the execution of a clearly focused strategic plan. CEOs will find that some of the strategies most critical to enhancing shareholder value and future profitable growth are some of their greatest challenges. Don’t do your annual or bi-annual strategic thinking in a vacuum! Reaching higher levels of bottom line performance requires an objective review of key strategies relative to both importance and positioning.

For additional information, please contact Janet Frankl-Lockwood at jflockwood@parlimentconsulting.com or 508-881-7002 or Kerry Nelson at kjnelson@saberassociates.com or 320-286-5059.