Custom Workshops

WORKSHOPS – PRIVATE, LIVE, IN-PERSON, or online

Specialized Training Tailored to Your Specific Goals and Objectives

The Lobby School offers specialized custom private training, either remotely or in-person, to suit your team’s needs. Our expert-led sessions will enhance advocacy skills and drive success within your organization. Past clients range from Astra Zeneca to the US Department of Defense.

Key Features

  • Content is customized in collaboration with client to meet your specific learning goals.
  • Training is live, remote or in-person at your preferred location and time.
  • No limit on number of intra-organization participants but every participant must get the textbooks.
  • For in-person training at your location, client reimburses Lobby School for one coach class airfare  and miscellaneous travel expenses.

$650 per class presentation hour online; live presentation at your location 4-hour minimum. $150 per hour for customizing existing course to your particular needs. 50% discount on textbooks. Complete satisfaction guaranteed or full refund of horly workshop presentation fees.

To initiate planning to elevate your team’s advocacy capabilities or just to learn more, contact Robert Guyer at 561-319-9427 or rlguyer@lobbyschool.com

Teaching lobbying to physician-advocates
(Harvard Medical School)
Bob Guyer’s course contributed substantially to my lifelong study of advocacy and was the best CLE accredited course that I have taken, bar none, in my 39 years as a government relations consultant.
Ron Kuehn, Esq. (LinkedIn) DeWitt Ross & Stevens SC, Madison

OUR 1 TO 16-HOURs of CUSTOM Workshops INCLUDE:

(2-9 Hour Workshop) – Good for associations wanting an overview of the elements of successful state legislative lobbying but without the detail and development of each workshop participant’s personal lobbying skills as are provided in the full day workshop. Pair this training with our lobbying handbook How to Successfully Lobby State Legislatures (softcover, 296 pages.)
How to Successfully Lobby Your State Legislature
(Workshop) – Identify the critical resources for a winning campaign. Organize resources and plan how you will proceed for the most effective lobbying effort.
Assessing Resources, Building Infrastructure, and Planning Your Lobbying Campaign
(Workshop) – Lawmakers can be motivated to support you and your issue. One size doesn’t fit all. Learn the common motivators and strategies for applying them.
Motivating Lawmakers
(Workshop) – You will spend most of your lobbying effort dealing with other groups that support or oppose you. Learn to build momentum to win support or lessen opposition from even your most active opponents.
Working with Special Interest Groups
(Workshop) – Have you hired the most effective lobbyist for your issue and are you getting his or her best? How do you establish fees? Learn the appropriate criteria for evaluating your lobbyist’s work product. Pair this training with Insiders Talk Winning with Lobbyists, Professional edition (hardcover 488 pages.)
Hiring and Working with Contract Lobbyists
(Workshop) – Learn how to plan for a successful session – everything from selecting the best meeting room to dealing with the psychological “tricks” of seasoned negotiators.
Winning in Legislative Negotiation
(Workshop) – These procedures are your bill’s roadmap through the legislature. You don’t need to know much, but what you do need to know is indispensable!
Legislative Procedure
(Workshop) – The work of the legislature is done by committees. When your bill passes its first committee, your chance of success skyrockets. Learn how to work effectively for maximum results.
Working with the Legislature’s Committees
(1-4 hour workshop) Agencies are very different from the legislature. So too are several of the lobbying strategies and methods to get the administrative legislation you need. Pair this training with Guide to Executive Branch Agency Rulemaking (softcover, 290 pages.)
Regulatory Agency Lobbying
We can also develop workshops to meet the particular needs of your organization.
Customized Workshops
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