managing stakeholder relationships
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I facilitated a stakeholder relationships workshop for a client recently. This presentation was the "background framework" used to shape the work done by this management team.TRANSCRIPT
“Influencing Stakeholders”Making sure that those who count
are aware that you count
Roelf Woldring1- 416-427-1567
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2011 - 2015
Spring 2015 2
What is this?
Answers to the following questions:
1. What are stakeholders?
2. What is in it for me = you?
3. Who is Roelf Woldring? What presence does he have on the Web?
4. What frameworks help us think about how to influence them?– The Diffusion of Innovations – Everett Rogers
– Development Styles – Roelf Woldring
– Influencing Elected Stakeholders – Roelf Woldring
5. How do these frameworks interact?
6. How do we use them to think through our interaction with key stakeholders?
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What is in it for me = you?
• Sync a team’s thinking about how to influencing key stakeholders positively
– A framework that allows a management team to get on the “same wavelength” about how to manage stakeholder messaging.
• Deliver “change” interventions that flex to individual needs– A “problem solving” model that integrates the best thinking about innovation,
change and personality into guidelines for planning interaction and communication with key stakeholders.
• Deliver effective messages to “elected political stakeholders”– A problem solving model for structuring the communications that most effectively
impact “elected” political stakeholders.
• Increase your personal “flex” effectiveness – Ways of thinking and acting that become internalized, increasing your personal
effectiveness when interacting with individual and groups of stakeholders.
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What makes Stakeholders so important?Stakeholders are the key source of:
1. Evidence Provide evidence which supports our successful work Provide evidence which supports our unsuccessful work
2. Decisions Go / No Go decisions at various stages in our projects / programs Resource level decisions throughout our projects / programs ($, people, facilities,
relationships)
3. Recommendations / Reputation / Repeat Work Recommend us to others Praise us / damn us with others Ask us to do more work for and with them in future
We want all Stakeholders to know about the good things we are doing
We want to immediately know from All Stakeholders about the unsuccessful things that we are doing
About the negative perceptions that they may have of us
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Building a Stakeholder Map (1 of 3)
• Brainstorm with all the people who are involved with or impacted by what we are doing
• Identify how what we are doing impacts them and could impact them, + and -
• Understand the relationships between the stakeholders
• Accept that we cannot control “how” the stakeholders make sense of information
• Inventory the communication channels available to us
• Inventory the communication channels available to stakeholders as they relate to one another
Common Understanding is What is Important
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Draw the Stakeholder Map (2 of 3)
Generic Stake Holder Map for Publicly-Traded, For-Profit
Organization
Organization
Customers
Suppliers
Regulators
Competitors
Employees
UnionsBoard of Directors
Investors
Investment Advisors
Bankers
Other Suppliers of Funds
Other Individuals
Other Organizations with “Interests”
Governmental Public OfficialsElected
Politicians
Each of these external organizations, groups or individuals is impacted by or can
have an impact on the organization.
Any of these groups could be split into two or more sub-groups, depending on the use of the
stakeholder map.
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Summarize what we know about stakeholders (3 of 3)
Stakeholder
Impact on the Organization (Current and Potential) Impacted By the Organization (Current and Potential)
Positive Negative Positive Negative
Customers
Suppliers
Competitors
Employees
Other Individuals
Unions
Board of Directors
Investors
Investment Advisors
Other Sources of Funds
Bankers
Regulators
Other Orgs with “Interest”
Elected Politicians
This is a way of thinking about stakeholders. It may or may not be done as a “formal analysis”, producing the equivalent of this table.
Generically Publicly-Traded, For-Profit Organization
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The Frameworks – The Diffusion of Innovations – Everett Rogers
– Helps us understand how change/ innovation spreads in organizations and in society
– Development Styles – Roelf Woldring– Helps us understand on individuals differ in the way that they
make sense of the new information associated with change
– Influencing Elected Stakeholders – Roelf Woldring– Helps us understand how to interact with Elected Stakeholders
– who may not be directly impacted by our projects, – but due to their decision making power over public funds,– can deeply impact our projects
Let’s look at them one at a time
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The Diffusion of Innovation: Everett Rodgers (1 of 6)
What is important for us in this model
is not the numbers
but the psychology and the resulting behavior
of the different groups
Rodgers, E. (1962) Diffusion of innovations. Free Press, London, NY, USA.
The rate at which individuals adopt a new innovation in a population.
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The Diffusion of Innovation
The Psychology and The Behavior of Stakeholder Innovators (2 of 6)
Group Psychology Behavior Who Influences Them How to Work With Them
Innovators Excited by new things; experimenters
Want to be seen as “first” to successfully take on new “things” by individuals in their “reputation” community
Experiment with new things, looking to see how it influences their “reputation” as being leading edge
Willing to pay a “time / cost” premium to be first
Suppliers of new “things” and ways of doing things
People who have new things which they can use to impress folks in their “reputation community” with being successfully “first”
1.Find them
2. Support “the hell” out of them maximize their possibility of success
3. Identify their “reputation” community
4.Make sure that their success stories are told to this community and to “early adopters”
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The Diffusion of Innovation
The Psychology and The Behavior of Stakeholder Early Adopters (3 of 6)
Group Psychology Behavior Who Influences Them How to Work With Them
Early Adopters
Willing to take on new things / ways once “proven” by Innovators do not want to be seen as “failures” – not willing to take on this risk
Watch Innovators to see what works and what does not
and to see who gets positive reputation and who does not
Innovators who succeed at getting a reputation for successfully adopting new things that work
Other early adopters who succeed or fail when they take on the “new”
1.Tell them the successful Innovators’ story
2.Let them self select to be “2nd round” adopters
3.Work with them to succeed
4.Work with them so that they tell their stories to their peer groups
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The Diffusion of Innovation
The Psychology and The Behavior of Stakeholder Early Majority Individuals (4 of 6)
Group Psychology Behavior Who Influences Them How to Work With Them
Early Majority
Want to take on new things once there is clear evidence that it generally works and that it is being adopted by others
Accept word of people they see as peers, not innovators or suppliers
Adopt new based on word of credible peers
Frustrated if they cannot get it when they do decide they want it
Want it, but also concerned about the cost of “adopting it”: concerned about “cost of failure”
Early Adopters who succeed
Early Adopters who fail
Early Majority who adopt “new” and then fail at “visible cost”
1. Identify “high risk” of failure Early Majority, and work with them to reduce / eliminate chance of failure
2.Re-engineer offering on basis of past learnings to reduce possibility of failure
3.Re-engineer offering on basis of past learnings to reduce effort cost of adoption
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The Diffusion of Innovation
The Psychology and The Behavior of Stakeholder Late Majority Individuals (5 of 6)
Group Psychology Behavior Who Influences Them How to Work With Them
Late Majority
Will only adopt “new” when it is well established
Price point is more important than “newness”
Looking to negotiate price or waiting for “sale” price
Sensitive to purchase price to acquire and “effort price” needed to learn how to use
SuccessfulEarly Majority
Unsuccessful Early Majority
Late Majority who tell them how to “simplify” use of new so that effort price is reduced
1.Re-engineer offering on basis of past learnings to reduce both purchase price and “effort price”
2.Connect them to peers who can share “simple ways” of using new (e.g. user groups)
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The Diffusion of Innovation
The Psychology and The Behavior of Laggard (5 of 6)
Group Psychology Behavior Who Influences Them How to Work With Them
Laggards Resist change – comfortable with old ways of doing things
Fiscally conservative
Often only adopt new when “peers” shame or pressure them or when recognized authority “tells them to”
Hold onto old until there is no choice
Hold onto old if they believe that the price of the “new” will reduce in future
Hold onto old until peers “kid” them about being “out of touch”
Other Laggards who have adopted new
Individuals they recognize as “having authority” who reduce / eliminate their choice to stay with old
1. Re-engineer offering on basis of past learnings to reduce both purchase price and “effort price” further or simply discount purchase price on basis of being “old” in market
2. Provide communication channels to / opportunities to be exposed to / dialogue with other Laggards who have adopted new and Authorities who eliminate choice to stay with old
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Before we move on, where do you fit?Reflect on this, or talk about it with another member of your team
The easiest way to figure this out it to get clear on your behavior. Do you …?Innovator Early Adopter Early Majority Late Majority Thoughtful, Price Conscious
Acceptors (Laggards)
Experiment with new things, looking to see how it influences your “reputation” as being leading edge
Willing to pay a “time / cost” premium to be first
Watch Innovators to see what works and what does not; willing to take on “new” once it is proven
Wait to see who is successful, gets positive reputation and who does not
Adopt new based on word of credible peers
Frustrated if you cannot get it when you do decide you do want it
Want it, but also concerned about the cost of “adopting it”; concerned about “cost of failure”
Look to negotiate price or wait for “sale” price
Your are sensitive and concerned about purchase price to acquire and “effort price” needed to learn how to use
Hold onto old until there is as long as there is no real reason to change
Hold onto old if they believe that the price of the “new” will reduce in future
Hold onto old until your friends and family “kid” you about being “out of touch”
It could be that you are an “it depends” person, changing your behavior depending on the content of the “new”. Also, remember that is no “best” here, just patterns of behavior.
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Managing Change Using The Diffusion of Innovation Framework (6 of 6)
TIme
Innovators EarlyAdopters
Early Majority
LateMajority
Laggards
Find Them
Select OnesWho Have
High ProbabilityOf Success
Run PilotProjects /
Load Pilots For Success
Identity ReputationCommunityOf SelectedInnovators
Do Pilot ProjectPost Mortems /
Lessons Learned
Communicate Project Success / Lessons Learned
To Reputation Communities and
Early Adopters
Engage in Dialogue to Allow Self Selection
Select OnesWho Have
High ProbabilityOf Success
Run2nd Round Projects
Work closelywith them to plan 2nd
Projects / Increasecommitment to success
Engage ThemIn 2nd Round Project Post Mortems / Lessons Learned
Facilitate Their Communication of Success to Other Early
Adopters / Early Majority
Re-engineer to lower risk of
failure / effort cost of adoption
Work closely with them to plan high risk
implementation to mitigate risk of failure
Run implementation
projects
Do Project Post Mortems /
Lessons Learned
Facilitate Communication
of Project Experience by
Successful Early Majority
Re-engineer to lower acquisition cost / effort cost
of adoption
Facilitate peer communications
among Late Majority Adopters
Run implementation
projects
Facilitate Communication of
Project Experience by Successful
Late Majority to those in Authority
To Mandate “Laggard” Adoption
Analyze projects to identity
opportunities to reduce cost /
simplify implementation
Re-engineer to lower acquisition cost / effort cost
of adoption
Facilitate mandate communication by
Authorities to Laggards
Run implementation
projects
Gen
eral
Seq
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e of
Act
ivity
Managing Change in Ways that Explicitly Use Rodgers’ Diffusion of Innovation Framework
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Spring 2011
The Development Styles Framework
How People Work With and Integrate New Information
and Acquire New Skills
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The Development Styles Framework (1 of 6)
• Individuals use different behavior styles when they are acquiring / learning / integrating new information or skills through interaction with others
• Consequently, it is important to “shape” the delivery of new information / learning activities in ways that align with each person’s Development Style
• Since, generally, it is not possible to know a person’s Development Style before hand, “information / learning” communications need to be structured to cover a “range” of Development Styles
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The Development Styles Framework (2 of 6)
Step One: How People Integrate New Knowledge
• People can be at either end or in the middle of this range – When in the middle, they often use an “it depends” style, determined by the type
of content• People generally integrate new knowledge at the “pre-conscious” level
– People are so practiced at this that they only become conscious of how they do this in exceptional circumstances
– Conscious awareness usually comes through feedback from others, self descriptive instruments, or disciplined self reflection / introspection
Practical people integrate new ideas / information based on how it fits their past concrete experiences
Conceptual people integrate new information / ideas through integrating them into the conceptual frameworks they already have
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The Development Styles Framework (3 of 6)
Step Two: At Work, People Acquire / Solidify New Knowledge in Interaction with Others
• Some people need to “talk” in order to clarify their thoughts and ideas. If you don’t give them the chance to do so, they do not “get it”.
• Other people need time to “reflect”. Unless you give them the time they need to process their thoughts and ideas internally, they do not “get it”.
Activepeople need to talk with someone before the new information / idea is really “real” for them. Their ideas can change as they talk.
Reflective people need time to process internally before they are ready to present their ideas to others in dialogue. This internal reflection may occur at the pre-conscious level.
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The Development Styles Framework (4 of 6)
Step Three: Put These Two Together Four Development or Learning Styles
• These four Development Styles are a good basis for planning interaction with folks on the “receiving end” of “change” information.
• They cover “the range” of possibility well.
• See http://www.wciltd.com/CompetencyStyles/sitepages/CS%20%20Development%20Styles%20Work%20Book.html
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The Development Styles Framework (5 of 8)
Influencing Individuals with Different Development StylesDevelopment Style Psychology How to Influence Communications … Follow Ups
Practical Actives
Want to engage in dialogue to clarify the impact of new ideas and required behavior change
Face to face, high touch exchanges with lots of opportunities for them to talk (break outs, idea sharing, one-on-ones with “engaged listeners”)
Get them involved in doing new as quickly as possible – anchor to old ways of doing things and then quickly move beyond them
Create follow up opportunities in which they can talk about “how it is going” with peers and others
Both Practical Actives and Reflectives
Need concrete examples they can relate to their past experience
Concrete examples, related to but moving beyond their past experience
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The Development Styles Framework (6 of 8)
Influencing Individuals with Different Development StylesDevelopment Style Psychology How to Influence Communications … Follow Ups
Practical Reflectives
Want to be “exposed” to new ways of doing things, then given an opportunity to “personally” reflect on what it means before further dialogue
Presentations, just-in-time materials, handouts they can take away
Opportunities to listen to others talk which allow them to “tune out others” and “tune in” to internal processes
Separate first exposure from first doing – don’t expect new doing on first exposure
Create follow up opportunities in which they can talk what they thinking about, and what they think it means to each of them personally
Then engage them in new doing
Both Practical Actives and Reflectives
Need concrete examples they can relate to their past experience
Concrete examples, related to but moving beyond their past experience
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The Development Styles Framework (7 of 8)
Influencing Individuals with Different Development StylesDevelopment Style Psychology How to Influence Communications … Follow Ups
Conceptual Actives
Want to engage in dialogue to clarify the way that the way that new models and frameworks relate to their existing concepts / frameworks
Face to face, high touch exchanges with lots of opportunities for them to talk (break outs, idea sharing, one-on-ones with “engaged listeners”)
Provide general models and frameworks, then provide concrete examples / tasks which are placed within context of models
Create follow up opportunities in which they can talk about “how it is going” with peers and others
Both Conceptual Actives and Reflectives
Need models, general frameworks they can relate to ones they have already experienced
General Models / Frameworks which shows reasons for change and how frameworks are related to past and future
Spring 2015 27Spring 2011 27
The Development Styles Framework (8 of 8)
Influencing Individuals with Different Development StylesDevelopment Style Psychology How to Influence Communications … Follow Ups
Conceptual Reflectives
Want to be “exposed” to new models which frame new ways then be given an opportunity to “personally” reflect how these new frameworks “fit” into their current ways of thinking
Presentations, just-in-time materials, handouts they can take away
Opportunities to listen to others talk which allow them to “tune out others” and “tune in” to internal processes
Provide general models and frameworks, and allow them time to reflect on them before moving onto concrete examples / tasks
Create follow up opportunities in which they can talk what they thinking about, and what they think it means to each of them personally
Both Conceptual Actives and Reflectives
Need models, general frameworks they can relate to ones they have already experienced
General Models / Frameworks which shows reasons for change and how frameworks are related to past and future
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Before we move on, where do you fit?Reflect on this, or talk about it with another member of your team
Once again, the easiest way to figure this out it to get clear on your own behavior.
1. It could be that you are an “it depends” person, changing your behavior depending on the content. Also, remember that is no “best” here, just patterns of behavior.
2. Also remember that we are all “natural intuitive psychologists”. That means that we assume that others do things in much the same way that we do. That is, we tend to project our Development Style on others. We communicate to them in a way that fits our Development Style. If it is the same as ours, we “click”. If not, we may experience some “difficulties” in our communication effectiveness.
Pick which best describes you And then
So that you are clear on your own
Development Style
Practical Conceptual
When you get new information, it makes most
sense to you if it is concrete, specific and tied to what you
have already done.
When you get new information, it makes most sense if it is tied to general models or frameworks that
you can connect to the other models or frameworks that
you have used to make sense of things in the past.
Active You want to be able to talk with others in order to clarify your ideas and thoughts. Things don’t really make sense to you until you have talked them through.
Practical Active
ConceptualActive
Reflective You need a chance to reflect, to process things once they have been presented to you. After you have done so, you are clear on them, and can engage in dialogue with others about them.
Practical Reflective
ConceptualReflective
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Conscious Communication is a Matter of Planning ContentTo Fit all Development Styles
Plan and deliver communication campaigns
which cover all of the possibilities
Practical Conceptual
Understand bestwhen they receive content that
is full of concrete examplesthat tie to past personal
experience
Understand best when specific examples are placed or framed
by general models that connect to past models that
have been used to frame similar circumstances
Active Need to talk with others about what they are hearing and seeing to integrate it – to get it 1. Provide both general frameworks and specific
examples that fit in them.2. Tie both to past experiences that the members of
the audience have had.3. Allow people to self-select into “talk” or “reflect”
situations.4. Provide follow up opportunities to talk to “similar”
peers about the new information or change required.
Reflective Need an opportunity to listen or to read and then have time to reflect on what they are hearing or seeing to integrate it – to get it
before talking with others about it or applying it
1. You can’t always know what the Development Style of individuals in your “receiver” audience will be. It is likely that a group will have a more than one, usually all.
2. It’s about effectiveness. Effectiveness increases if you are aware of this need to cover this range of audience members, and use your awareness as a tool while you are developing messages and delivering them.
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Putting these Two Frameworks Together …. (1 of 2)
The interaction of the two frameworks allows us to think about how to shape different parts of a change roll out.
In the moment:
Knowing where the person is in the Innovation cycle, and having insight into the person’s Development Style allows us to “flex” to that person’s interaction requirements.
In communications:
Including elements that align with each of the four Styles maximize impact.
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Putting these Two Frameworks Together …. (2 of 2)
Development Style
Practical Conceptual
Place in Diffusion of Innovation Active Reflective Active Reflective
Innovators
Early Adopters
Early Majority
Late Majority
Laggards
If we can identity where individuals or groups fit into this framework,
we can “customize” our interactions with them to maximize our influence on them.
At each stage of the Innovation Cycle, we can use language that works for all four
Development Styles in our communications.
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So far …
Everything we have covered so far applies to all change oriented work in
organizations and communities
Now let’s add one more framework …one useful in those project or programs in
which Elected Public Officials (politicians) are part of
our Stakeholder group
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Influencing Elected Politicians (Roelf Woldring) (1 of 7)
• Elected Politicians have a real job to do – defined by competing interests among the players in their
stakeholder map (see next slide)
• Ultimately, politicians work for the “party”– It authorizes their nomination as “candidates”
– It funds their election campaigns
– It disciplines their membership in the party
– Governance structure of the Party • is a mixture of formal (constitution of the party) • and tribal (party executive, “back room party inner circle”, inner circle around elected
“leader” of party)
• No mention of the “Party” in Canadian constitution
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Influencing Elected Politicians (2 of 7) Stakeholder Map of an Elected Politician
ElectedPolitician
Electorate
Current Voters in Local Riding
Others
Party
Media
Future Voters in Local Riding
Businesses in Local Riding
Community and other Organizations that hold “voters” in Local Riding
Local Riding Executive
Local Riding Members
Party Executive and Back Room “Inner Circle”
Party Leader and Leader’s Inner Circle
Other Elected Party Members
Salaried Party Administrators
Elected Politicians from Other Parties
Registered Lobbyists (and “unregistered lobbyists”)
Government Bureaucrats
Political Staffers Working for Member Media Personalities
Journalists
Editors
Other Media
Staffers
Political Staffers Working for Other Elected Party Members
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Influencing Elected Politicians (3 of 7) Job Description of Elected Politician
• Hold / re-win the seat for the party– Represent Party in Local Riding Electorate meetings and other
gatherings of members of Electorate (both inside and outside local riding)
– Develop and maintain a “personal influence” network inside the Party, and among the other external “stakeholders” (see previous slide)
Take “stands” approved by Party during House Sessions Do not “take stands” outside of those communicated or developed in Party
“caucus” or communicated by Party Leader (and Party Leader Inner Circle)
Vote with Party with issues defined as “Party Issues”
Vote based on understanding of Local Electorate interests or personal judgment during “free votes”
Spring 2015 36Spring 2011 36
Influencing Elected Politicians (4 of 7) Job Description of Elected Politician continued
Do “work” assigned by Party in a way that reflects Party policy, image, and reputation
Cabinet posts Oversee operations of Ministry Align operations of Ministry with Party Policy Align spending of Ministry with Party Policy (as much as possible) Avoid “negatives” which reflect badly on Party public image
Committee posts Other “roles” Interact with Government Bureaucrats as required by work assigned by
Party Translate Party policy in dialogue with / communications to Government
Bureaucrats
Represent the “interests” of the Electorate inside the Party Speak up for local Electorate interests, issues and concerns during caucus sessions Speak up based on personal judgment on issues in caucus sessions Dialogue with other Elected Party members and other Elected Party Members / Party Staff
to generate support for “local Electorate interests, issues and concerns” and for “personal issues and concerns”
Spring 2015 37Spring 2011 37
Influencing Elected Politicians (5 of 7) Three Points of Influence on Elected Politicians
By Individuals from “Outside” Political Parties
• Votes – Comes directly from Elected Politician Job Description
• Win / Hold the Seat for the Party
• Jobs– National Income is distributed through Job Salaries, Return on
Investment and Government Programs in our Society– Jobs have become an important component of competition among
Political Parties for votes (Win / Hold the Seat for the Party)
• Dollars– Governments manage a major portion of the GDP– Demands on Government,
• resulting from Electoral System = need to gain votes, • and past political contracts with Electorate (e.g. Health Care, Education, …)
always exceed income available to the Government
Spring 2015 38
Influencing Elected Politicians (6 of 7) Stories to Tell to Get Support from Elected Politicians
By Individuals from “Outside” Political Parties
Influence Point Generic Story How It Works
Votes What we are doing is increasing the perceived satisfaction of local voters in your riding with our program / activity that your Party supports
Increases Politician’s perception that more people likely to be satisfied with Party’s programs
Jobs What we are doing is increasing the number of jobs in your riding or in a number of ridings
Increases Politician’s ability to “credit” Party with action that has led to increase in number of jobs
Dollars What we are doing is decreasing:• the need for total government
spending in our established program areas
• or the unit costs of program delivery in our programs
Increases Politician’s ability to “credit” Party with action that shows “fiscal” responsibility
“All politics is local”if you cannot make the story local,
the Politician cannot tie your story to potential local votes
On Election Night,The only thing that counts is the number
of votes that win the most seats, not the total number of votes
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Influencing Elected Politicians (7 of 7)
Who Do You Need To Tell Your Local Stories Too
ElectedPolitician
Electorate
Current Voters in Local Riding
Others Media
Future Voters in Local Riding
Businesses in Local Riding
Community and other Organizations that hold “voters” in Local Riding
Local Riding Executive
Local Riding Members
Party Executive and Back Room “Inner Circle”
Party Leaderand Leader’s Inner Circle
Other Elected Party Members
Salaried Party Administrators
Elected Politicians from Other Parties
Registered Lobbyists (and “unregistered lobbyists”)
Government Bureaucrats
Political Staffers Working for Member Media Personalities
Journalists
Editors
Other Media
Staffers
Political Staffers Working for Other Elected Party Members
To as many people as you can
in the Elected Politician’s Stakeholder Map,
as well as the Elected Politician
But
• Political Staffers,
• Other Elected Politicians
• Media Personalities / Journalists
are secondary keys
The best “story teller” is always someone who the Elected Politician sees as a “typical” Current Voter in Local Riding
Remember be “Party Agnostic” as you “facilitate” and “shape” these communications
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