Category Archives: Government Relations
Want to Innovate? First, You Have to Know Your Strengths
As a leader in next-level political involvement skill development, the Innovate to Motivate® Conference is known for investing in expert faculty to connect you to nationally-known thought leaders.
Another one of our expert faculty members is Candace Fitzpatrick, President of Core Clarity, Inc. You can read more about her here: http://www.coreclarity.net/pages/AboutUs.html.
As many of you know, I believe that to improve your government relations performance, you have to work from your strengths, rather than focusing on shoring up weaknesses. This applies to one’s professional life, as well.
However, many of us don’t know what our organizational or personal strengths are. Candace will be leading two dynamic breakout sessions where you will conduct your own personal strength analysis to find out what…
Social Loafing
We’ve all been on a team where 20 percent of the team members do 80 percent of the work – a few board members recruit for the PAC, a couple of organizations in your coalition make the effort to mobilize their members on an important issue, or one member of your GR staff reviews and edits the department’s Web site.
I grew up on a farm, and there are great lessons from the farm. A German agricultural engineer named Max Ringelmann studied farm labor efficiency and found that productivity decreases in large work groups (for me, that meant a work group of two, as my brother did most of the hard labor—and yes, I was the social loafer). Fifty years later,…
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Free Enterprise Campaign
As you know, sometimes I like to publish the email threads of my colleague, Dr. Kelton Rhoads and I, on whatever intrigues us at the moment. Here’s the latest on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and their free enterprise campaign.
Amy: I see that the US Chamber is launching a campaign to promote the free enterprise system. Sound familiar? Weren’t you advising them to do something like that back in 2007?
Kelton: It’s interesting all right. A few months ago I heard that USCC was announcing an upcoming influence campaign supporting free enterprise, but I haven’t seen any campaign communications yet (other than its announcement). Usually you don’t pre-announce an influence campaign; it’s not S.O.P. to forewarn people you’re going to try…
