NMK – Political Coaching and Communication - What Exactly is Coaching?

What Exactly is Coaching?

“Coaching has become one of those catch-all phrases like strategy, quality, or process. Because of its popularity, coaching has sometimes been misused.” To explicitly ‘translate’ the quote above, some coachees are sometimes more excited about the ‘luxury’ of being coached rather than being excited about changing. Truly, Ulrich (2008) mentioned that one executive ‘bragged’ about […]

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NMK – Political Coaching and Communication - Another Downside of Political Branding

Another Downside of Political Branding

We have discussed in the previous blog post that marketing President Barack Obama was no different than marketing soap. But what other downside has this political branding strategy caused? Zavattaro (2010) concluded that the second downside that a branded president faces is shifting political branding from a platform-centered approach to a candidate-centered one, which shifts

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NMK – Political Coaching and Communication - Major Repercussions of Political Branding

Major Repercussions of Political Branding

Compared with studies that reported on the noteworthiness of treating statesmen and women like commercial brands, researchers and political/marketing professionals have barely given political branding repercussions attention. Here, for instance, is one beneficial analysis conducted by Staci M. Zavataro on that topic. Brand Obama has been everywhere since 2008. Undoubtedly, he (and definitely his team

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NMK – Political Coaching and Communication - Keys to Brand a Candidate and Win a Political Race

Keys to Brand a Candidate and Win a Political Race

What is it that makes your political brand the better choice? If you accurately answer this question, ‘political consumers’ will choose your brand over your opponents. If they do so, you win the political race! To come up with a perfect political brand, you must think of yourself as any commercial marque. Appropriately, every candidate

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