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Committee Bulletin has conducted a comprehensive survey of politicians' lobbying preferences. The aims of this Survey were to obtain to view of the current generation of parliamentarians on lobbying and advocacy campaigns, in order to assist Special Interest Groups (SIGs) to refine their lobbying efforts in a professionally responsible way. It is also hoped that the Survey will assist Members and Senators by encouraging SIGs to take on board their views about how they prefer to interact with interest groups. Please read on to view a summary of results and ordering information.
Daily Health Media Summary - Australia and New Zealand
 
Client Solutions produces a comprehensive Australian and New Zealand media summary every week day morning and distributes this via email to subscribers. The summary is an effective boundary scanning tool which alerts subscribers to issues in the media that may affect their organisation.
 
Committee Bulletin is a fortnightly newsletter produced by Client Solutions which provides independent coverage of Federal Parliament's committee system covering developments in both the Senate and House of Representatives.
 
 
Client Solutions has launched its new electronic client newsletter Advocacy Update. This newletter tackles issues relevant to the changing communication environment discussing areas such as ethics in lobbying and the political landscape, with coming editions delving into the technological changes that are affecting both lobbying and communication practices.

 

Media database 

 

Client Solutions has been compiling the health media summary for approximately 4 years. This has provided us with a comprehensive and searchable database of health news stories.
 
Client Solutions also produces a range of other information material such as pocket guides, backgrounders and sitting date cards.

If you would like any further information or would like to request any of the publications above please email jhembrow@client-solutions.com.au or phone 02 6282 2471.
 
 


 

Very few organisations could claim that they have never had members asking:
  • What do I get for my subscription?
  • How does it help me?
  • Those at H.Q. are out of touch with the members.
  • We go in too hard on issues.
  • We don't go in hard enough!
In my own 36 years of industry/professional association work, I have heard them all - and in each organisation I worked in! This has caused me to think about what are the key measures of an organisation's health - and how often are they checked, analysed and calibrated?
What are the symptoms of an ailing association? Some danger signs clearly are:
  • falling membership;
  • ageing membership;
  • loss of influence;
  • lack of competition for elected positions;
  • rapid changeover of senior staff
  • loss of corporate memory
  • a sense of treading water rather than moving forward;
  • no direction, no vision; and
  • the emergence of competitors.
This is the tip of the iceberg. Like a disease, there is not much benefit from simply treating the symptoms if at the same time you don't determine the root cause and implement major change. It is always easier to fill in the potholes rather than resurface the road, but the road will get progressively weaker through this process. (Now that's a three metaphor paragraph!)
In answer to this, Client Solutions has developed a range of services which will allow groups to know more about themselves and to improve the way they operate. It's called Association Analytics and will cover a range of analyses, diagnostics and recalibration in areas such as:
  • Internal Analysis/Review
  • Membership Analysis/Review
  • Outputs Analysis/Review
  • Environmental Analysis/Review

 

       
 
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