Welcome to the YIMBY Workshop that turns Not-In-My-Backyard (NIMBY) opposition to YES-In-My-Backyard (YIMBY) opportunities.
What makes this workshop different?
The YIMBY Workshop comes to you: we offer an exclusive on-site, private, one-day, deep-diving program focused on corporate calibration and optimization.
Throughout the day, you and your team will dive into the intricacies of NIMBYism, exploring its origins, motivations, patterns, and political influence on development projects. You’ll experience engaging discussions, thought-provoking case studies, and interactive exercises that will empower your team with new insights, knowledge, and modern-day practices to succeed in today’s digital NIMBY world.
The #1 reason why NIMBY opponents defeat well-funded and well-positioned developers is corporate hubris. A developer’s prior success often creates overconfidence resulting in corporate blind spots, team silos, and other obstacles that citizen activists happily exploit at will.
Regardless of whether you’re succeeding, aspiring, or endeavoring to win more project approvals, the YIMBY Workshop is calibrated to optimize your accomplishments for future victories.
Here’s a quick quiz to see if you’re ready for this never before offered workshop. Do you believe an onsite professional workshop focused on prevailing against NIMBY opposition in today’s digital age would empower you and your organization for greater success? If you believe it may, then you pass…congrats…there’s always room to learn new strategies, tactics, technology, and practices, right?
If you answered maybe not, then keep in mind that NIMBY opposition never sleeps nor stops scheming to defeat you in the digital NIMBY world. A friendly word of caution: the less you learn, the more they succeed against you at city hall.
You can only learn so much about “community engagement” at a 75 minute public workshop at a conference or a 45-minute lunch and learn panel discussion.
The YIMBY Workshop will produce a corporate YIMBY Playbook that’ll give you the best game plan and tools in the toolbox to optimize your corporate strengths, while leveling up your areas of improvement in REAL TIME! Your YIMBY Playbook will encapsulate integrated communications strategies, best practices, and public affairs tools that’ll level up your grassroots stakeholder engagements.
Your YIMBY Playbook is organized to break the patterns of opposition and exploit their self-serving attitudes. Your YIMBY Playbook will help you and your team respond to every real-time situation to include but not limited to the following:
- What creates a NIMBY crisis?
- The first 3 questions you must answer before publicly managing a NIMBY crisis.
- What to do when anxious public officials ask you to hold a town hall meeting.
- The Do’s and Don’ts of holding an open house meeting.
- 7 must-do’s when the local reporter calls after being contacted by the opposition.
- How to engage local news media before the NIMBY hits the fan.
- How to write a persuasive press release, guest column, LTE, and FAQ.
- Who should be your spokesperson(s).
- How to manage the interview for print and electronic news media.
- The 10 message points every project must communicate.
- What to look for in your political assessments and social due diligence.
- The Do’s and Don’ts of a project website.
- How to humanize your project to cue emotional perceptions.
- What to look out for in local consultants.
- How to identify and recruit local allies.
- How to optimize community relations and charitable contributions.
- When to organize a third-party coalition and manage it for advocacy.
- How to overcome current silos and future internal obstacles.
- Customized YIMBY top/down strategies for bottom/up successes.
- Building your stakeholder matrix.
- Advantages of citizen participation reports.
Our onsite, private YIMBY Workshop will present and offer the latest practices in crisis management, media relations, political marketing, digital and video communications, reputation management, grassroots advocacy, alliance management, and other public affairs sub-disciplines reserved for only clients and workshop participants.
SELECT THE WORKSHOP PACKAGE THAT BEST SERVES YOU
Patrick Slevin offers three primary packages to best serve your corporate structure and reporting, culture, knowledge capital, talent, project teams, and fiscal risks.
Select the best package to immediately begin leveling up your abilities to prevail consistently against NIMBY opposition:
Full-day onsite workshop resulting in a customized YIMBY Playbook for immediate utilization. Our Elite package includes interviews of 3 to 5 associates prior to the workshop to identify successes, opportunities, resources, and obstacles, which will underwrite your customized workshop program.
In addition to Elite, our Platinum package offers a qualitative assessment leading up to the full day workshop that includes interviewing up to 10 participants. We will develop a case study for evaluation at the workshop. Additionally, our Platinum package offers the option for strategic coaching of 90 days to effectively implement the strategies and tactics outlined in your customized YIMBY Playbook.
In addition to Platinum and Elite, our Diamond package provides strategic consultation, team training, and implementation of your YIMBY Playbook for any current or upcoming project.
Contact Patrick Slevin to get a customized quote that’ll factor in your corporate structure, team size, location(s), industry, timing, record of success, and other important variables.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This one-of-kind YIMBY workshop is ideal for the following executives and professionals who are in the trenches of NIMBY controversies:
- Corporate Developers
- Project Managers
- Land-Use Lawyers
- Urban Planners
- Lobbyists
- Community Engagement Specialists
- Government Officials
Seize this opportunity to arm yourself with the knowledge and resources needed to overcome NIMBYism threatening your current and future development initiatives. Bring in Patrick Slevin for a day of insight, innovation, and empowerment at your private YIMBY Workshop.
Patrick Slevin has educated, instructed, and counseled thousands of real estate executives concerned with the financial risks and political uncertainties associated with NIMBY opposition.
Slevin is a former Florida mayor and two-time Amazon bestselling NIMBY author and speaker. As a recognized NIMBY expert, Slevin offers his unique knowledge and experience to real estate developers endeavoring to prevail against NIMBY activism in today’s Digital Age.
Slevin has established himself as the preeminent consultant for corporate developers having won the prestigious Public Relations Society of America’s Silver Anvil Award of Excellence – twice – in crisis and issues management. He’s also been recognized as one of the nation’s top political “Movers & Shakers” by Campaigns & Elections Magazine and featured in Influence Magazine as a “Great Communicator.”
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
Contact Patrick Slevin to learn the secrets, strategies, and solutions to prevailing against digital NIMBY activism.
Contact Patrick Slevin Today
Direct: 850.597.0423
P.SL7@patrickslevin.com