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Public Affairs: A Driver of Corporate Advantage
Stefan Borst, Senior Partner Advocacy Strategy In boardrooms, Public Affairs is often misunderstood. The costs are questioned and results...
Efficiency in Public Affairs. The Internal Side of Public Affairs (48)
Alan Hardacre, PhD Co-Founder Advocacy Academy, Advocacy Strategy In today’s resource-conscious environment, efficiency in Public Affairs...
What Belongs on a Public Affairs Dashboard (and What Doesn’t). The Internal Side of Public Affairs (47)
Alan Hardacre, PhD Co-Founder Advocacy Academy, Advocacy Strategy If Public Affairs wants to be seen as a strategic function, it needs to...
How PA Complacency Harms the Bottom Line
Stefan Borst, Senior Partner Advocacy Strategy Boardrooms today buzz with complaints about mounting bureaucracy. And rightfully so....
Changing the Way We Work: Embedding Public Affairs Thinking Through a Playbook, Tools and Team Ownership
Today, we wrapped up the final workshop in a two-month collaboration with a global public affairs team. This wasn’t just a training...
Workshops on EU Institutions: In Associations, We Learn Much More Than Just the Institutions
Paul Shotton, PhD Co-Founder Advocacy Academy, Advocacy Strategy and Owner at Paul Shotton Consulting July 29, 2025 1. A Workshop That...
The CEO as a Statesman: Situational Awareness is a Crucial Skill Executives Need to Successfully Navigate Politics
Stefan Borst, Senior Partner Advocacy Strategy Would you walk into a political meeting the same way you enter an investor pitch? Of...
Defining AI for Public Affairs: Four Functional Types and a Common Pitfall
Paul Shotton, PhD Co-Founder Advocacy Academy, Advocacy Strategy and Owner at Paul Shotton Consulting July 10, 2025 Artificial...
Why Quantifying Risk vs. Opportunity is Different...And Why It Matters. The Internal Side of Public Affairs (40)
Alan Hardacre, PhD Co-Founder Advocacy Academy, Advocacy Strategy How you quantify a Public Affairs risk is very different from how you...
The Internal Side of Public Affairs (39). What I’ve Learned from Quantifying Public Affairs Work
Alan Hardacre, PhD Co-Founder Advocacy Academy, Advocacy Strategy June 2025 In my last post, I broke down the mechanics of quantifying...
How exactly do you Quantify your Public Affairs Work. The Internal Side of Public Affairs (38).
Alan Hardacre, PhD Co-Founder Advocacy Academy, Advocacy Strategy May 27, 2025 In my last post, I laid out a structured approach to...
What does good Public Affairs Prioritisation look like?. The Internal Side of Public Affairs (37).
Alan Hardacre, PhD Co-Founder Advocacy Academy, Advocacy Strategy May, 2025 I often post about the need for Public Affairs to prioritise...
Putting a Price on Influence: Integrating Public Affairs Risks & Opportunities into Financial Planning. The Internal Side of Public Affairs (36)
Alan Hardacre, PhD Co-Founder Advocacy Academy, Advocacy Strategy May 2025, Public Affairs teams are often asked to demonstrate their...
How to Engage your organisation to take activism seriously. The Internal Side of Public Affairs (35).
Alan Hardacre, PhD Co-Founder Advocacy Academy, Advocacy Strategy May 2025 Too often, activism is treated as a just a short-term...
Mobilize the Home Front: External Success depends on Internal Success. The Internal Side of Public Affairs (34).
Alan Hardacre, PhD Co-Founder Advocacy Academy, Advocacy Strategy Public Affairs professionals spend much of their time looking...
Why Public Affairs Needs to Learn from Marketing. The Internal Side of Public Affairs (33)
Alan Hardacre, PhD Co-Founder Advocacy Academy, Advocacy Strategy I was inspired by a recent conversation with Yoav Shechter Ph.D....
The Power of a Community of Practice. The Internal Side of Public Affairs (32).
Alan Hardacre, PhD Co-Founder Advocacy Academy, Advocacy Strategy Public Affairs professionals are often lonely and isolated...
Public Affairs Objectives, Tactics and Milestones: Your Foundation. The Internal Side of Public Affairs (30)
Alan Hardacre, PhD Co-Founder Advocacy Academy, Advocacy Strategy A strong Public Affairs strategy doesn’t just happen—it’s built on a...
The Difference Between Objectives and Tactics – And Why It Matters. The Internal Side of Public Affairs (31)
Alan Hardacre, PhD Co-Founder Advocacy Academy, Advocacy Strategy One of the most common pitfalls in Public Affairs is the confusion...
Why a Strong Public Affairs Process is Critical to Attracting and Retaining Talent. The Internal Side of Public Affairs (29)
Alan Hardacre, PhD Co-Founder Advocacy Academy, Advocacy Strategy I have had a few conversations recently about attracting, onboarding...
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