Skills

5 Ways to get back 25% of your day in an instant

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If you find your days full of back-to-back meetings,  here are some tactics that I found helped.   1 . Screencast If you find that you are giving the same talk to group after group, screencast your talk and send it in advance. The 20 minutes it will take you to record will send you … Read more

How to find an RSB Opinion

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If you want to get a sober analysis of a Commission’s proposal, spend some time and read the Regulatory Scrutiny Board‘s opinion(s) on it.   If you want to read them, you need to head over here to the register of documents and run a search. The opinion(s) are published when the legislative proposal is … Read more

My Limited EU Knowledge Tree

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I took advantage of being sick to try and map my limited circle of competence on EU Public Affairs. I recently came across the visual of a knowledge Tree for the Common Law.   I chunk Public Affairs down into Issue Expertise, Process Expertise and Skills.   This is my primitive visualisation of the limited … Read more

Some lobbying skills I wish my 25 year old self knew

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I moved to sunny Brussels in September 1996 at the age of 25. I’ve been lucky to work on some very interesting projects with some excellent people who taught me a lot. During that time, I made a lot of mistakes. Over time, I’ve picked up some skills, an understanding of decision-making and law-making procedures, … Read more