Planning in the Flow of Change
Suzanne Catana

July 2002

42 + 26 pages, A4
ISBN 961-6268-78-3 (US)
ISBN 961-6268-79-1 (Europe)

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“This facilitated process effectively accelerates the capacity to collaborate and lead toward high performance organizations. This is a flexible and dynamic method for strategic change, planning, and implementation management. The focus on dialogue to create an environment in which individuals are valued contributors to organizational outcomes set this approach apart as a tool for 21st Century leaders.”

Robert W. Backoff, Professor Emeritus, School of Public Policy and Management, Ohio State University, co-author of Strategic Management of Public and Third Sector Organizations: A Handbook for Leaders.

“This is a wonderful tool for people who want to help co-create great organizations.”

Robert E. Quinn, Margaret Elliot Tracy Collegiate Professorship of organizational behavior and human resource management at the Graduate School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; author of Change the World, Deep Change, Becoming a Master Manager, and Beyond Rational Management.

Suzanne Catana, Ph.D. is recognized internationally for excellence in group facilitation, teambuilding, training, leadership and organizational change and development. As founder of the Facilitation Center, she consults for non-profit, government, and corporate organizations and leaders. Dr. Catana also teaches in the graduate program of the School of Public Policy and Management at the Ohio State University in the areas of human relations, strategic planning and management, strategic leadership, and public organization theory. She is an educator with 23 years of administrative and teaching experience whose insightful techniques have distinguished her in the field of process facilitation.

Table of Contents
Planning in the Flow of Change Model
Introduction and Overview
Understanding the Facilitated Process
Planning in the Flow of Change Process
Formats, Processes and Tools – Symbols
Formats
Information Management Processes
Information Processing Tools
Dialogue Tools
Dialogue Framing Tools
Contextualizing Processes
Generative Processes
Integrating Tools
Implementing Actions
Bibliography


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