Bleiker Consent Building

Resolve Conflict Gridlock & Get More Effective Decisions through Consent Building

  • Learn More
    • Why Not Consensus?
    • Why Public Work Is Harder
    • Our Why
    • New Students
      • NIMBY Cure
    • Returning Students
      • 4 Modules to Public Outreach Mastery Course
      • Personalize Coaching
    • Monthly Clinic Categories
      • Clinic Schedule
      • Annual Team Subscription
  • Testimonials
    • Nearly 40,000 TRAINED
  • Resources
    • Online Training Login
    • Student Materials
    • CP Handbook

Anti-Government Stakeholders Expect More of You than They Realize From Citizen Participation

It’s not news to you that the public expect things —

  • Roads to be maintained . . .
  • Restaurants not to make them sick . . .
  • Water to be safe to drink . . .
  • Schools to educate kids . . .
  • First responders to aid in emergencies . . .

But — did you realize, that INCLUDES stakeholders with “anti-government” attitudes?

  • They too expect these things (and MUCH more) from government — which is YOU.

Know the secret to unwinding this paradox? 

How do you get those who profess to HATE government — who make calls for a smaller and “more competent” government, for blanket cuts to organizations and regulation — to realize the don’t really mean what they say?  That they need government agencies like yours, just as much as anyone…?

One way is through your Citizen Participation.

  • Beware, that does NOT mean more public involvement.
  • It means doing your outreach in a strategic way — aimed to diffuse anti-government sentiments so they realize the paradox themselves. 

Your Citizen Participation has to create a paradigm shift in the minds of anti-government stakeholders.

  • Chances are, your current Citizen Participation is actually exacerbating this paradox.

 

While this is no small task, it’s entirely doable! 

In Clinic #77, we help you see how to create Citizen Participation that diffuses such hatred, and illuminates the true expectations and needs of these anti-government stakeholders.

  • Get Access to the Replay
  • Download Clinic #77 Handout Overview

During this clinic, we cover

  1.  How you set up a room can contribute to the “Us vs. Them” misperception your public has
  2.  FOIA requests — are you triggering them?  How do you respond when your receive one?
  3.  Chances are, at least some — if not all — of your Citizen Participation is well intentioned, but wrong-headed.
  4.  Are you inviting the public’s input, when there’s no room in the technical process for it?
  5.  Do you expect your public to buy your solution before you’ve sold the problem?

All of our training, including these monthly clinics, are aimed to HELP YOU . . .

Don’t buy into the rhetoric that

  • there’s nothing you can do about anti-government attitudes
  • there’s nothing you can do about “politics”
  • changing opponents’ minds

None of that is true!

It isn’t easy, but PREVENTING and HEALING Anti-Government attitudes is entirely doable.

 

For 45-minutes, turn off your phone and close your email so you don’t miss out on how YOU CAN DO THIS.

Get the Recording of Clinic #77

Related Posts

  • Bleiker Consent Building Brownbag Follow Up BlogBleiker Consent Building Brownbag Follow Up Blog
  • Developing Trust with ExtremistsDeveloping Trust with Extremists
  • How You React to a Decision Making Mistake is the Real MistakeHow You React to a Decision Making Mistake is the Real Mistake
  • People Often Bypass Our Public Involvement Process, and Go Straight to the Political Decision-MakersPeople Often Bypass Our Public Involvement Process, and Go Straight to the Political Decision-Makers

Categorized: Anti-Government, Citizen Participation, Consent-Building Clinics, Input, Past Consent-Building Clinics, Public Outreach

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Future Clinic Topics

What You Can Learn from Social Media Trolls? February 9th @ 10am PT

Create Compromise for Polarized Officials March 9th @ 10am PT

Clinic Library

Stream 130+ presentations on how to deal with obstacles specific to public-sector work.

Annual Subscription $1370 $685 Temporary COVID-Relief Discount

Hans, Annemarie & Jennifer Bleiker
PO Box 1937; Monterey, CA 93942
Tel: (831) 373-4292 – Fax: (831) 373-0760
Email: jennifer@consentbuilding.com

  • Contact Bleiker Consent Building
  • Facebook

© 2021 · Powered by Genesis Framework · Design by: Bellano Web Studio