Paul is a former career diplomat & member of the Senior Executive Service. He previously was the State Department's COO for Public Diplomacy, overseeing 5000 people and a $1.5B budget.
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This index provides navigation for "Public Diplomacy in Practice," the implementation volume of PD Foundations providing practitioners with foundational concepts, tools, and processes for day-to-day PD work. Overview "Public Diplomacy in Practice" provides a primer on the foundational concepts that practitioners need to implement and improve
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Appendix I: Debrief templates Closing out a project is a critical step in the process. Project debriefs can take place in a facilitated meeting or in writing. If it’s done in a meeting, ensure you have a facilitator and notetaker (ideally, people who are not themselves involved in debriefing
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Outgoing responsibilities for a departing PD officer It is the responsibility of officers to ensure a smooth transition for their successors by leaving the office prepared for the arrival of the new officer. It is the responsibility of the new officer to reach out and ensure there is adequate information
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PD practitioners often have to make plans and decisions with incomplete information. You may be uncertain about such things as the availability of staff time, funding, the Ambassador’s schedule, or the state of local affairs. Key planning assumptions should be both made explicit throughout the planning process and reassessed
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1. What is a hypothesis? In scientific or social scientific inquiry, a hypothesis is an educated guess about the relationship between two or more variables. Articulating the relationship between these variables forces us to explain the connection between them and to uncover our assumptions about this relationship or the variables
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Appendix E: Planning tools There are many tools designed to help planners think critically and carefully about their projects. Each of them has different purposes and different strengths and weaknesses; a tool that is perfect for one scenario might not work in a different context. For example: * The SMART mnemonic
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The following illustrations in Figures 17-20 offer two examples of how a PD section might begin to organize its thinking about audiences as they develop activities. The table includes four columns identifying key information that the PD section needs in order to design an effective, evidence-based initiative. Figure 17. Figure
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A problem statement is a concise description of an issue you want to address or a condition you want to improve. It identifies the gap between the current state and the desired state, and it should offer analysis of the problem’s significance and consequences. The problem statement should provide
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The fourth step of the design process is defining the problem and writing a problem statement. A problem statement is a concise description of an issue you want to address or a condition you want to improve. This step is important because your framing of the problem will influence how
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Strategic thinking and planning requires prioritization, choices, and trade-offs. Public diplomacy (PD) sections cannot take on all the ICS goals, projects, or programs that it might like to do. Use the prioritization tools below to analyze and record your thought process. 1. Linear scale One of the simplest ways to
Scope PD Foundations is the cornerstone project developing foundational principles that guide the practice of public diplomacy (PD) at the Department of State. This volume is not intended to be an exhaustive accounting of PD work or processes, but rather an introduction to ideas and concepts that will ground the
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A. Introduction “How do we get from where we are to where we want to be, without being struck by disaster along the way?” -Paul H. Nitze As one public diplomacy scholar asserts, “Strategists are people who seek to solve problems and make choices related to a desired future.” PD
