The frustration I hear most often from the nonprofit leaders I work with, is that the money and policy decision makers in their world don't seem to get the value of what they do. And that comes In a lot of forms and flavors. One that can be especially frustrating is the decisionmakers not understanding the full scope of the problem. Or why the ways that the problems manifest for your clients are as difficult to solve as they are. 

Part of the issue is that money and policy decisionmakers are always looking for the easiest way to solve the problem, which is only human. But that desire for simplicity, that desire to take the easy route wherever possible. Tends to lead to frankly, some pretty lousy decision-making around policy and around how resources should be allocated and invested. And very often it leaves the most effective programs and the most effective services short of funds. 

If we want to solve this, we have to get at a more fundamental issue. Which is that most decisionmakers have a significant mental block that keeps them from seeing the complexity of the problem. And until we break through that mental block we're not going to make a lot of progress.

In this episode, we share:

• Why decisionmakers often fail to grasp the complexity of the problems you solve
• The critical knowledge gaps decisionmakers commonly have about your clients, that they’re often completely unaware of
• The common faulty assumption we make about decisionmakers that causes our messaging to miss the mark
• How to craft your messaging to crack open the decisionmaker’s core biases and mental blocks
• The biggest caution we need to have when engaging decisionmakers around their mental blocks

 
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