I digress … thoughts on fish & the environment
A series of posts on good practice in lobbying and campaigning
If you find your days full of back-to-back meetings, here are some tactics that I found helped. 1 . Screencast If you find that you are giving the same talk to group after group, screencast your talk and send it in advance. The 20 minutes it will take you to record will send you … Read more
Years ago, I learned my most valuable lobbying technique: tell the right story to the right person in terms of their values. If you want to persuade anyone, you need to look at the issue from their perspective. You need to walk in their shoes. And when you have done that, you can put forward … Read more
The interest in challenging delegated acts, RPS measures, and implementing acts is growing. Challenges take a lot of work to get prepared and are not taken likely. So, if you hear a challenge is going to happen, wake up. Denial is not a strategy. If you hope it will all go away and nothing will … Read more
If I were to teach a course a how to be a lobbyist, I would chunk it down into four areas to master. Skills Processes Operational Mindset They are not the same for Public Affairs or Campaigners, but I think there is overlap. Each area could be chunked down into granular steps that would benefit … Read more