1. Do we know who our opponents are and why they oppose us?
2. Do we know what tactics they are using to oppose us?
3. Do we have a plan for addressing resistance or opposition?
- Responding to Counterattacks
- Developing Successful Strategies: Planning to Win
- Training for Conflict Resolution
- Survival Skills for Advocates
- Reframing the Issue
4. Is our group unified and sufficiently free of internal conflicts?
- Becoming an Effective Manager
- Handling Crises in Communication
- Creating and Gathering a Group to Guid Your Initiative
- Promoting Internal Communication
- Training for Conflict Resolution
5. Do we have processes in place for resolving conflicts?
- Becoming an Effective Manager
- Handling Crises in Communication
- Developing Personnel Policies
- Providing Supervision for Staff and Volunteers
- Promoting Internal Communication
- Training for Conflict Resolution
6. Have we gotten our message out accurately and to enough people?
- Getting Issues on the Public Agenda
- Communications to Promote Interest
- Conducting a Direct Action Campaign
- Media Advocacy
- Communicating Information About Community Health and Development Issues
- Making Community Presentations
- Developing a Plan for Communication
- Providing Corrective Feedback
- Reframing the Issue
- Working with the Media
- Changing the Media’s Perspective on Community Issues
7. Have we formed an adequate response message to direct toward the resistance or opposition?
- Media Advocacy
- Responding to Counterattacks
- Making Community Presentations
- Providing Corrective Feedback
- Reframing the Issue
- How to Respond to Opposition Tactics
8. Have we taken adequate steps to get that response message out into the community?
- Getting Issues on the Public Agenda
- Communications to Promote Interest
- Media Advocacy
- Responding to Counterattacks
- Communicating Information About Community Health and Development Issues
- Making Community Presentations
- Developing a Plan for Communication
- Providing Corrective Feedback
- Reframing the Issue
- Working with the Media
- Changing the Media’s Perspective on Community Issues