Author and consultant
Kathleen A. Paris, Ph.D., speaks on healthy workplaces, provides consulting for strategic planning, process improvement and redesign, and professional development for leaders. Read more »
Kathleen A. Paris, PhD
Values
As a professional consultant, Kathleen will conduct all activities with you and your organization according to these core values:
  • Honesty: Shares information and feedback accurately;
  • Flexibility: Makes adjustments for changing situations;
  • Follow-Through: All commitments are honored;
  • Results: Helps clients achieve results in a way that honors client values and relationships.
Upcoming Events
February 28
Haggerty Museum at Marquette University
World Cafe & Strategic Planning
Milwaukee, WI
March 22
Academic Staff Institute
Communicating with The Clover Practice™
UW-Madison
March 28
International Association of Business Communicators (IABC)
Leading with The Clover Practice™
Edgewater Hotel, Madison

Blog: Communication

Bringing Your Strategic Plan to Life!

Most strategic plans are never implemented. Organizations may put a great deal of time and effort into creating a strategic plan and then neglect to implement it.

To paraphrase author Patrick Below, the purpose of planning is not to create plans. The purpose of planning is to create results.

We Can Rewire Our Minds

We carry many unconscious habits and prejudices from our past experiences into our everyday work and family lives.

Operating Principles Can Build Trust In An Organization

Creating a set of operating principles for how employees will behave towards each other and those they serve can be the foundation on which a more cohesive, trusting and trustworthy workplace culture can be created. And although giants like Google and Whole Foods Market have created operating principles, no group is too small or too large to take this step. As my article for Leadership Strategies, Inc. emphasizes, operating principles only have power if everyone from the CEO to the newest employee is expected to follow them.

Getting Serious About Email Marketing

I just read that only 3% of US homes do not have Email

Moving People’s Desks Every Year

Employees change desks each year for stronger teamwork at Care.com.

Reviewer Focuses on Interdependence

In his review of Staying Healthy in Sick Organizations: The Clover Practice™,  UK Consultant Philip Whiteley seized on “Declare Your Interdependence.”

 

The Power of an Apology

I was furious. My 83 year old mother had arrived at the hospital via ambulance. She was having trouble breathing and chest pains. Her thin body was trembling and her words were slurred.

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