National Journal researchers and practitioners have compiled resources to help your organization prepare for your fly-in or advocate training day. Use the following decks, toolkits, briefs and articles to guide your meetings on the Hill. As always, your Dedicated Advisors are available to assist you in planning.
Prepare for Your Hill Meetings with Presentation Center's Fly-In Deck
This deck is designed to guide you in selecting content relevant for a fly-in or advocate training day. There are two parts: the first focuses on the training template to teach advocates, and the second provides worksheets and maps to build advocate engagement.
Get to Know Your Legislators
The Presentation Center includes slides featuring biographical and policy information about lawmakers, such as this one on Sen. Cory Gardner. Use these slides to prepare for meetings on the Hill.
Get More Insight on Fly-ins From National Journal on Medium:
According to National Journal's Leadership Council research, what separates best-in-class fly-ins from others boils down to three things. Practice Leader Cliff Johnson explains in his post for Rotunda, our home on Medium:
Advocate Meeting Checklists and Tools:
Listening Guide: Use this tool to help your advocates become better listeners in meetings with legislators or staff. This tool communicates the details that are most important to capture and report.
Meeting Checklist: Distribute this short checklist of activities that advocates are expected to complete before, during and after scheduled meetings with policymakers and staff. Also, use our Meeting Checklist Toolkit to guide your activities.
Membership@Lunch: Best Prep for Fly-in Participants
June 16th | 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
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This event shares findings and tactics on how to prepare advocates for their Hill visits—pre-event assignments, training programs, dossiers on arrival, and others.
Contact us at daniellew@nationaljournal.com for more information on how we can help you plan your fly-in and events.