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Evaluate

Take Organizing Broader and Deeper

The Evaluate step in the COG method

Left-click to read Appendix 1. Evaluate and explore. Take your understanding of the Constant Organizing Goals Method and the Organizing for Power approach broader and deeper.

Appendix 1 - Org4Pwr & COG

Left-click to explore Appendix 2. This explanation of the nature, role, and mechanisms of power in organizing takes your understanding of power in the org4pwr approach broader and deeper.

Appendix 2 - Power

Left-click to explore Appendix 3. Increase your depth of understanding about the function of listening in union organizing. Learn about the use of Directed Active Listening and Relational Meetings, One-on-One Conversations, and Why Stories Matter in crafting social change.

Appendix 3 - Listen

Left-click to explore Appendix 4. For a broader and deeper understanding of planning in org4pwr, read this appendix. Explore planning procedures and tools as well as the dynamics of planning. Enhance your capacity to plan effectively through an approach best suited to organizing.

Appendix 4 - Plan

Left-click to explore Appendix 5. Evaluate and explore the crafting and progression of strategy from its basic elements to its endgame. Discover the essential Five Elements of Organizing Power. This appendix covers the Grand Strategies in union organizing and classics such as Steuben’s Strike Strategy and Kahn’s Principles for Organizing.

Appendix 5 - Strategy

Coming soon. Left-click to explore Appendix 6 and the preparation procedures, practices, and tools that ensure success in organizing.

Appendix 6 - Prepare

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

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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.

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.