COHORT GROUP - Readiness Review Practice Instructions

Members of the Cohort group are invited to send your Readiness Review Questionnaire and your portfolio presentation to APR Facilitators for review and comment.  It is advisable to complete a Case Problem presentation, before working on your readiness review.

Important recommendation...  It may be a chore, but we recommend doing an "off-the-shelf" case problem, before doing your Readiness Review.  The reason is that your RR is perhaps too close to you.  It is sometimes difficult (but not impossible) to step back and look at it objectively.  The case problems are usually not connected to your organization.  You may easily look at them as exercises, and learn from the process.  So it is our recommendation to do a case problem exercise first.

Be sure to review the 10-Step Components of a Public Relations Plan and the Four-Step Planning Process, then think about your experience.  Do you have a project or plan that you had a part in creating that illustrates this process?  If not, you may want to find a project to develop.  The readiness review is based on real experience.  Some candidates have volunteered for a nonprofit to gain the experience. 

The first step is completing the Readiness Review Questionnaire.  You may want to review comments from others regarding the Readiness Review Process.  [Discussion Link]  We ask you to forward your slides for your presentation to APR Facilitators for review.  [NOTE: Slides are NOT required and are DISCOURAGED in some RR panels.  Create slides as a way to organize your talk and conversation with the RR Panel.  We will want slides for our webcast only.]  We will deliver the presentation in our Web Conference for discussion by the entire group.