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Author Archives: Jeff Nesbitt
Giving workplace engagement a conductor’s touch
[blockquote style="blue"]How does any organization ensure conformance to process while enabling creative freedom?[/blockquote] Speaking at a lunch forum, Edwin Outwater, conductor of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, noted that part of the trick of a conductor is delivering an engaging symphony experience with an orchestra that’s made up of top individual performers. How a symphony is like [...]
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The Mystic Art of Government Relations III: Planning and goal-setting
In my previous blog post, I outlined a typical firm’s first approach to GR, the ‘show me the money’ strategy. In my experience, firms move through stages as their government relations (GR) portfolio matures. I’m going to outline how to speed the progress and improve the outcomes of the planning and goal-setting stage. Iteration and [...]
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Demystifying the ‘mystic art’ of Government Relations
To have a fully functioning GR strategy in your organization, attention should be placed into key areas that generate value out of your GR spend and maximize your chances of getting those government incentives along the way. After meeting with hundreds of organizations about Government Relations and their approach to it, I’ve seen a pattern [...]
