Narrative-first, evidence-driven

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This is for a small group (or you + one ally). Keep it action-oriented.

1) Check-in (3 minutes)

• What’s one thing you noticed this week about the squeeze?

2) Decide the target (5 minutes)

• Which squeeze lane are we touching this month?
• What’s the bottleneck we can actually move?

3) Pick the decision point (5 minutes)

• What meeting/vote/contract/budget moment is coming?
• Who is the decider? Who is staff?

4) Draft the One Ask (10 minutes)

• Who / what / when / metric
• What’s the “make it easy” next step?

5) Assign micro-actions (5 minutes)

• Who sends the email?
• Who reads the agenda packet?
• Who shows up / submits comment?
• Who logs it?

6) Close (2 minutes)

• Follow-up date:
• Metric to track:

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