Organizing for Power Union Education Program

Organizing for Power instruction uses the organizing for power (org4pwr) approach and the Constant Organizing Goals (COG) method. The org4pwr approach employs bottom-up, broad-based organizing to achieve an essential outcome: The capacity to apply principled power. The COG method employs uses a practical process: Continuous cycles of four interconnected steps. These organizing steps consist of Listen, Plan, Act, and Evaluate. Together, organizing for power and the COG method create a cogent, consistent, mutually reinforcing approach for building and applying union power. In combination, organizing for power using the COG method unites and balances ends and means. Together, organizing for power and the COG method combine outcome and process in a systematic unity of purpose, direction, and action.

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Left-click to explore Appendix 9. Learn more and increase your depth of understanding about the evaluation criteria in union organizing, conducting after action review meetings. Apply dialogue skills to enhance evaluation activities and other steps of the COG method.

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