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Plan to Organize for Power

Plan to Organize for Power by applying the COG Method

Left-click to read about ORGANIZING: A GUIDE. Open a summary of the GUIDE’s structure and an explanation how it develops performance understanding of the Organizing for Power approach using the COG method. The GUIDE is available both on this website and on The org4pwr App on a USB drive. One of the added features of The org4pwr App on a USB drive is that the GUIDES hyperlinks are fully functional.

About the Guide

Left-click to read ORGANIZING: AGUIDE. Open the whole GUIDE including: the Tables of Contents and other Lists; the Foreword, Acknowledgment and Preface; and, the Introduction, all ten Chapters, and the Conclusion.TheGUIDE’s Appendixes andthe Resources Documents are accessed from the Act and Evaluate menus, respectively.

Read the Guide

Left-click to read a chapter in ORGANIZING: A GUIDE. Open chapters one at a time. Or you can return to one specific chapter.

Read a Chapter

Left-click to access the GUIDE’s Resource Documents: These tools help you to ACT on the Guide. Use this collection of model and experience-proven documents to avoid “reinventing the wheel.” This collection of organizing and “Thinking Tools” enhances unions’ capacity to organize effectively.

Go to the Resource Docs

Left-click to read the GUIDE’s Appendixes. EVALUATE the scope of the organizing knowledge that drives your campaign. To develop an even better understanding of organizing, extend your organizing exploration broader and deeper than the Guide’s chapters.

Go to the Appendixes

To view the GUIDE’s Chapters, Appendixes, and Resource Documents, your computer must have PDF reader software (like Adobe Acrobat or Reader) installed. If you need to install one of these PDF reader programs, left click the ‘Install Adobe Reader’ button to down load the free Adobe Reader program.

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Prior Chapters

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Go to additional videos on the Listen step of the COG Method.

Return to prior videos on the Listen step of the COG Method.

View Master Organizer Peter Olney’s video overview of organizing which explores The Zen of Organizing.

View an overview of the Constant Organizing (COG) Method.

View an overview of the Organizing for Power (org4pwr) Approach.

View an overview of the relationship between the Organizing for Power (org4pwr) Approach and the COG Method.

Go to the additional videos on the Listen Step of the COG Method

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View presentations on planning in organizing, complementing Chapter 4 – PLAN.

View videos on the COG Method’s Listen step, including member participation and Basic Unionism in union organizing.

View videos on the preconditions for organizing mastery and what is in the Guide. Videos on who should use this Guide and how organizing for power will empower their organizing coming soon.

Videos on who should use this Guide and how organizing for power will empower their organizing coming soon.

Left-Click to view a video on the information and resources provided in the Guide.