Procedure Review
What are the 3 methods of communication in crisis?
(Private and Personal) Directives, Communique, Press Releases
Who plans and executes crisis updates?
The dias creates and presents crisis updates based on the actions delegates take in committee.
What are two questions to consider when conducting character research?
Any two:
How are you involved? What are your personal goals and how can you achieve them? What potential alliances do you want to form? What is at stake for you?
Why did the issue arise? How does the issue connect to a larger theme? What past actions were taken, and how does your entity feel about them?
Why did the dais choose to include your specific entity? What are their learning goals for the committee?
What kind of directive has more than one sponsor but does not need to be passed by the committee?
Joint personal directive
WWYD if you receive a crisis update that harms the interests of your character?
Answers may vary
Example: Use personal directives to rebuild your power, forge connections with more powerful characters, work on Committee Directives that make you more important in committee
Give 2 ways crisis is different from GA
Answers may vary: More specific role, personal level issue, simulation, sped-up time scale, solutions are fluid, etc
Name one way that crisis updates can be presented to committee.
Answers may vary (i.e. song, video, performance)
What does SOAPStone stand for?
Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject, Tone
How many delegates need to approve a personal directive?
None. A personal directive is sent to the backroom by an individual.
WWYD if you wish to perform a certain action in a directive, but lack the portfolio powers to fully accomplish it?
Answers may vary
Examples: joint directive with a delegate who has the power, pass a committee directive, etc.
What is a Perpetual Moderated Caucus?
When no motion has passed - go into perpetual moderated caucus: No set time, continues until motion to change, interrupted by crisis update
What are the three parts of a basic speech structure?
Hook, Body, and Conclusion
What are Portfolio Powers?
Power reserved for specific delegate that allows them to take private actions in areas they directly oversee
How many delegates need to approve a committee directive for it to pass?
50% + 1 of the committee
WWYD if your Private Directive actions aren’t being passed by the backroom?
Answers may vary
Examples: Ensure you are using your portfolio powers correctly, add more details and reasoning to your directives (are they SMART?), ask the backroom for feedback/help through Private Directives
UN Background: Which 5 countries have veto power?
China Russia, France, UK, US
You are a delegate in a Civil War committee and you receive an update that the side you are warring against has just bombed one of your major cities, killing 1000’s of people and injuring many more. Come up with ideas for a Committee Directive for your next move.
Answers may vary. (Retaliation, planning a new attack, moving around troops, care for the injured, more protection in major cities)
What would some powers of the Minister of Finance be in a WWII Cabinet Crisis Committee?
Answers may vary.
Example: Access to the country’s money and how it flows, access to the Prime Minister, connections to other ministers, connections to banks
Name 1 similarity and 1 difference between resolutions and directives
Answers may vary
Example similarities: Written and passed by committee to resolve issues, created during unmods, debated during mods
Example differences: Directives can be passed in a shorter time span, directives don’t need a formal voting bloc
WWYD if your Public Directives are not being passed by the committee?
Answers may vary:
Examples: Focus on greater stronger ties with other delegates in committee and talking through your ideas, SMART directives, use Private Directives to gain influence or drive the committee in one direction
Explain what a Press Release is and why it is used.
Communique to the public, has to be approved by a vote, can be used to gauge influence and public approval.
You are planning to overtake the world through biological warfare. Currently, you have created hypnosis drugs in a very advanced lab. Write a Private Directive that would allow you to complete the next step: distributing the drug discreetly among the population.
Answers may vary.
Examples: Ways to distribute the drug in everyday life: water stream, etc. Who would do it? How would they do it? What are the next actions after distribution?
You’re in a Greek Mythology crisis committee! What would some portfolio powers of the Greek Goddess Athena be? How could she uniquely use her powers among the other Gods?
Answers may vary:
Example: Easily manipulate populations with practical reason, can stir up trouble through war, as protectress, can lay claim to valuable areas as her own, etc
Name the 5 key elements of a good directive.
SMART! (Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Relevant, Timebound)
WWYD if your character’s portfolio powers don’t seem very consequential or impactful in committee?
Creativity!
Examples: performing small minor actions to get more powers, steering committee in a direction so your powers are more useful, etc.