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 »
Staying Healthy In Sick Organizations: The Clover Practice™
Imagine feeling more peace of mind and less stress at the end of the work day. The Clover Practice™ will show you how.
Imagine feeling more peace of mind and less stress at the end of the work day. The Clover Practice™ will show you how.
September 22
Is It Possible to Tell The Truth All the Time at Work?
12:00pm-1:30pm
12:00pm-1:30pm
Madison Downtown Rotary
October 3
Strategic Plan Implementation Events
University of Tennessee Knoxville
November 2
Bringing Your Strategic Plan to Life: A Guide to Making Your Plan Happen
Workshop for business, nonprofits, and agencies (Date tentative)
Workshop for business, nonprofits, and agencies (Date tentative)
Wisconsin Center for Performance Excellence
January 25
Leading with The Clover Practice™
Careers Conference, Center on Education and Work, UW-Madison
Careers Conference, Center on Education and Work, UW-Madison
Madison, WI
Strategic Planning
Kathleen is an expert strategic planning facilitator. She has facilitated over 100 planning processes for both large and small groups. Her approach engages stakeholders, yet enables a group to complete its work in a minimum of time. She says, “It’s essential to keep the planning process moving forward efficiently so that people have energy left to implement.”
Kathleen will assist your organization in scanning the environment, identifying strengths and weaknesses, collecting stakeholder feedback and clarifying mission (basic purpose) and a shared vision for the future.
At the end of a strategic planning process led by Kathleen, a short list of strategic priorities will be agreed upon and understood by those who participate. Your organization will have specific and “doable” goals with peoples’ names attached to them.
An ideal sequence for many organizations is some pre-work activities to engage a larger group in planning followed by two half-day planning sessions with a smaller representative planning committee.
See Kathleen’s articles on planning:
- Three Secrets for a Successful Strategic Planning Process (MS Word)
- A Collection of Planning Corner Articles DRC 3a. [PDF 175KB]
- Strategic Planning in the University DRC 1b. [PDF 226KB]
- Does It Pay to Plan? DRC 1b. [PDF 405KB]