
The Organizer's Listening Framework: Moving Beyond Solutions to Root Causes
The biggest failure in organizer training is teaching people to solve problems before they understand them.
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The biggest failure in organizer training is teaching people to solve problems before they understand them.

The most effective union organizer I ever watched work spent less than a third of her time talking to people at their workplace. The rest? She was at school board meetings, church potlucks, community health fairs, and neighborhood association gatherings.