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NCSL Legislative Video Resource Center

The NCSL Video Resource Center is a collection of recorded webinars accessible for on-demand learning.

Client Interaction for Legislative Drafters

Learn about effectively communicating with clients, filling in the blanks in drafting requests, asking effective questions, filtering out the noise, and creating strategies to deal with challenging situations, including delivering news that your client may not want to hear.

Produced by: RELACS

New Drafter Training | What Does that Mean? Crafting and Using Definitions in Statutes

New to legislative drafting? Explore the topic of using definitions in statutes.

Produced by: RELACS

Remaining Nonpartisan in an Increasingly Partisan Environment

Learn the importance and benefits of nonpartisanship and tools that legislative staff attorneys and other legislative staff can use to remain nonpartisan and maintain professional integrity while satisfying legislators that they are receiving excellent service.

Making Readers Care About Your Writing

All legislative staff—whether experienced or interns, clerical, legal or IT—will benefit by learning how to use an opening hook to get readers invested in a topic, develop information based on the readers’ questions about the issue, and present that information professionally but “conversationally” in a way that’s most efficient and compelling for readers.

Produced by: LSCC

Tools for Management Coaching

Legislative staff who supervise others will learn from this intro to coaching and the tools for shifting the focus of interactions with others.

Produced by: LSCC
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