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Take Organizing Broader and Deeper

Evaluate: Advanced organizing practices

Left-click to explore Appendix 7. Develop broader, deeper insights into appraising and selecting tactics by using proven tactical principles. Examineroven tactical attributes and characteristics of effective tactics. Explore the prerequisites for powerful picketing and strikes.

Appendix 7 - Tactics

Coming soon. Left-click to explore Appendix 8 the environmental considerations in organizing for power.

Appendix 8 - Environment

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.

Appendix 9 - Evaluate

Left-click to explore Appendix 10. Learn more and increase your depth of understanding about why organizers must think beyond pattern-driven responses. Explore how good thinking strategies provide organizers leverage over their adversaries’ mechanical reliance on pattern-driven responses. Develop broader, deeper insights into the comparative advantages of strategic thinking approaches.

Appendix 10 - Think

Left-click to explore Appendix 11. Learn more and increase your depth of understanding about how unions build organizing capacity from their core values and organizational structure. Explore illustrative core values statements. Examine how the California Staff Organization built a stronger union through its core-values.

Appendix 11 - Values & Structure

Left-click to explore Appendix 12. Evaluate and explore bargaining support and issue management during organizing campaigns. Explore the essential preconditions for successful bargaining.

Appendix 12 - Bargaining Support

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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.

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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.