Represent the organization in external relations
Part of the output can be produced by software today.
An agent can propose the plan, chase the replies and keep the record current. To actually change anything it needs write access to a calendar or work system, and a person still owns the tradeoffs when two plans collide.
| How automatable | Partly automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Scheduling, planning and resource control |
| Jobs that do it | 10 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Tools and auth, Builders |
| O*NET activity | Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others (4.A.4.b.1) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 10 occupations that perform it.
- Attend and participate in meetings of municipal councils or council committees.
- Represent their parties in negotiations with political executives or members of other parties, and when speaking with the media.
- Represent company at trade association meetings to promote products.
- Represent organization at personnel-related hearings and investigations.
- Promote the university by participating in community, state, and national events or meetings, and by developing partnerships with industry and secondary education institutions.
- Represent organizations in relations with governmental and media institutions.
- Represent organizations before domestic or international regulatory agencies on major policy matters or decisions regarding company products.
- Represent jurisdictions in the legislative or administrative approval of land development projects.
- Represent organizations or promote their objectives at official functions, or delegate representatives to do so.
- Serve on commissions, investigative panels, study groups, and committees in order to examine specialized areas and recommend action.
- Represent institutions at community and campus events, in meetings with other institution personnel, and during accreditation processes.
- Represent their government at local, national, and international meetings and conferences.
What we would actually use
One recommendation rather than a shortlist, because a shortlist is just your problem handed back. This is what we would buy for scheduling, planning and resource control, and what it costs.
Scheduling is a connector problem rather than an intelligence one, and $9 a month of Make covers both the calendar and the chasing. An agent platform priced per seat adds nothing you would notice here.
Chosen for the cheapest thing that does the job, not the best funded. Nothing on this site is sponsored, and the full landscape is there when you want to disagree with us.
The rest of the category
Context, not alternatives to weigh up. We name the layer rather than promise a named product does your specific task.
Matched from the kind of work, not from vendor marketing. Check any of them can reach the system your records actually live in — that connection, not the model, is where these projects stall.
How people actually do it
No workflow names this activity yet, but these automate the same kind of work, with the prompts to paste and what to keep for yourself.
Who does this work
10 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Coordinate activities with clients, agencies, or organizations”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.