Messaging & Framing - Community...• Economic disparity: personal responsibility (“pull yourself...
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2019 Management & Leadership Training Conference
Ketayoun Darvich-Kodjouri
Communications Strategist
Messaging & Framing
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First Things First – Start with Strategy
• What’s the communications goal?
• What’s the current landscape for
your communications?
• Which audiences do you need to
engage?
• What do they already think, feel,
and believe about this issue –
their existing frames?
• What are the right messages?
• What tactics should you use?
• What staffing and resources are
needed?
• How do you measure success?
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Framing
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• Frames = mental shortcuts of deeply held
worldview, beliefs & assumptions.
• People are not blank slates. Their perceptions
of issues, who is responsible, and the solution
are shaped by frames.
• Tapping into right frame – through metaphors,
images, language – can help define the
debate on your terms.
What’s Framing?
“If the facts don’t fit the frame,
the public will reject the facts”
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Some Common Frames
• Government: inept nanny state vs. working toward the
common good?
• Environmental laws: economy-busting regulation vs.
protecting our rivers and the air we breathe?
• The economy: uncontrollable force of nature vs. man-made?
• Immigration: stop the jeopardy to “our” safety/economy vs.
creating a path to citizenship that keeps families together
• Human services sector: charity “handed to them on a plate”
vs. building well-being and opportunity?
• Economic disparity: personal responsibility (“pull yourself up
by your bootstraps”) vs. shared fate (“we’re all in this
together”)
• Racial equity: stop “playing the race card” vs. treat everyone
fairly, no matter what they look like or where they came from
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Quiz: Name the Frame
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Quiz: Name the Frame
VS
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Powerful EconomicMetaphors
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Your Turn: Issue Framing
1. What’s the issue?
2. Name the dominant frames (good and bad) about your issue.
3. Common metaphors, images, language related to these frames.
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Audiences
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Strategic Targeting: Who’s Your Audience?
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Beware of Categories that are Too Broad…
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What do you know about them?
What do they
care about?
• Big values
• Personal values
• Not YOUR values
What holds
them back?
• Don’t know
• Don’t care
• Still don’t act
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Quiz: Who’s the Audience?
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Your Turn: Audience Analysis
1. Who is your audience?
2. What action do you want them to take?
3. What connects them to the issue or your work?
4. What’s their best reason to say no?
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Crafting Messages
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Messages: 5 Basic Questions
1. Who’s your audience?
2. What action you want them to take?
3. What do they care about?
4. What’s their best reason to say no?
5. What powerful frame(s) can you tap
into?
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Three points
Connect
Take Action
Persuade
Taps into what the audience cares about,
establishes common ground
Overcomes the audience’s main barrier
without repeating it
Asks the audience to take a specific action
and explains the benefit of acting
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Example – Death Penalty
Connect
Take Action
Persuade
Innocent people should not
be wrongfully convicted and
sentenced to die
More than 100 have
since 1976.
Pass the bill requiring DNA
testing for all accused of a
capital crime – so we can be
sure our justice system treats
everyone fairly.
BONUS Q:
What’s the
Frame?
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Example – Quiz
Connect Take ActionPersuade
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Messaging Tips
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Messaging Traps
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Avoid the traps
MEGO
Math Problem No Story
Too Much Info
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Your Turn!
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Step 1
• Craft your message
Step 2
• Practice with a
partner
Two Steps
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Step 1: Draft a Message
1. Who is this for (audience)
2. Frame you will emphasize
3. Connect Message – to a value
4. Persuade Message – overcome a barrier
5. Take Action Message
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Step 2: Share with a Partner!
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How did it go?
OR
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Putting Message into Practice
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Putting Messages into Practice
1. Know who you are trying to reach
2. Be consistent – and repetitive
3. Once finalized, flow messages into all
materials and channels
4. Train all spokespeople on:
• Your messages
• How to block and bridge
5. When speaking, talk like a real person
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Learn from the Pros
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Suggested Resources
THANK YOU!
Ketayoun Darvich-Kodjouri
Opportunity Agenda (opportunityagenda.org)
Frameworks Institute (frameworksinstitute.org)
George Lakoff, Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think (2016, Third Edition)
Frank Luntz, Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear (2008)