Clear, positive positioning with public decision makers and the government enables organizations to better seize the opportunities that come their way.
Positioning requires being able to rely on accurate information and knowing how to knock on the right doors.
At TACT, our government relations experts can provide you with the information you need, and design customized strategies to maximize the positioning of your issues, your ideas, and your influence.
Government Relations to Position Your Organization with Public Decision-Makers
Government Relations
Influencing Strategy
The success of your influencing strategy depends on your ability to rally opinion behind your idea and to create the right conditions for its implementation. Whether you are proposing a project, influencing government policy, defending your interests, meeting decision makers or taking part in a parliamentary committee, TACT can help you draw up a customized action plan tailored to your message to ensure that it resonates with public decision makers.
Developing essential tools for your outreach
- Creating key messages that reach public decision makers and your target audiences
- Creating the essential documentation for meeting requests
- Creating presentation documents to explain your messages and requests in simple terms
Ecosystem mapping
- Creating a global map of your ecosystem
- Prioritizing the key players you need to reach based on your objectives
Government Relations Plan
Sharing strategic orientations in decision-making processes
- How are government decisions taken?
- How can you be involved in this decision-making process?
Analyzing government documentation to identify opportunities in your specific sector of activity
Creating the strategy by listing concrete actions to achieve the objectives
- Defining the narrative
- Defining objectives
- Setting priorities
Support for Lobbying Activities
- Sharing the latest information about lobbying
- Support in registering lobbyists
- Application of the law and regulations consistent with the highest ethical standards
Meetings with Public Office Holders
Federal, provincial, and municipal public office holders are called upon every day to make decisions that can have an impact on your activities or projects. It is therefore important for you to develop or consolidate your communications channels so that you can act effectively. At TACT, we can put you in touch with ministers or members of their staff, elected representatives, and senior civil servants. And we can support you in the effective presentation of your ideas or the defence of your interests.
- Identify key stakeholders in order to target which ones you need to reach
- Set up meetings for you, while giving a hand in sending out invitations
- Provide support in preparation
- Strategic support
Daily Monitoring of Government and Parliamentary Activities
You operate in a continually changing environment. You need to keep up to date on regulations, new legislation, government guidance or action plans that influence activities in your sector. At TACT, we keep you up-to-date in real time, ensuring your organization’s compliance, helping you seize new opportunities or informing decision makers of potential issues. TACT proposes courses of action relevant to your strategic positioning. At TACT, our team ensures that we scrutinize all government documents on the lookout for opportunities and to provide early warning of changes.
Intelligence and Information Gathering
Your success in government relations requires information that is communicated by public decision makers. But more than that, you need to understand the complex dynamics of the political environment. At TACT, we can become your eyes and ears, thanks to our extensive networks of experienced experts, who come from a variety of political backgrounds.
You can count on intelligence and cutting-edge information to guide you in making strategic decisions, and to prepare your government relations interventions to maximize your positioning.
Preparing for a Parliamentary Committee
Appearing before a parliamentary committee is an important event that needs to be well prepared. At TACT, our experts can help you identify blind spots, avoid going off track, and provide dry-run sessions in advance, to prepare your spokesperson for the worst. We offer tailor-made support based on your needs.
