A fully-attended Board Conference, held in Toronto in November, led to a number of firm decisions regarding PAL Canada®’s future direction. Conducted by well-known facilitator, Ron Robinson, President of ABARIS Consulting, and financially supported by Actra Fraternal Benefit Society, which also provided the meeting facilities, the intensive3-day gathering resulted in inspiring and ambitious -but do-able- tasks in the reinvigoration of PAL into the future. As you will see in our President’s Notes column (page 3), it also led to the adoption of a 3-year Strategic Plan which will see real progress made in those necessary areas of action identified as requiring concentrated efforts from all concerned, everywhere in our country.
You will be learning much more about the successful results of your representatives’ deliberations as the Plan unfolds but the general consensus might be summed up in the Strategic Message being disseminated, which stresses the interconnected nature of Chapters, the National and individual members throughout Canada, and the imperative that there be constant interchange and involvement amongst all PAL members. Mr. Robinson cautioned that enthusiastic hopes will remain unfulfilled unless definite actions are undertaken to get the job done. The wholehearted acceptance and promulgation of our new Strategic Plan augurs well for the future of PAL and wins kudos for our representatives around the Board table.
Palingenesis Summer 2010