Community awareness about how to deal with climate change is something that councils around Australia are facing. We worked with Moreton Bay Regional Council to plan how to address climate change challenges in their communities. Specifically we looked at how to best...
Month: March 2018
When engagement gets tricky: tips to get you across the line
When engagement gets tricky: tips to get you across the line A question we hear time and time again from our clients is how to tackle difficult engagement. Whether it be highly emotional issues, opposing viewpoints, lack of strategic direction, or differing levels of...
Smart Cities for Humans not Robots
The world is full of clever data scientists, infrastructure specialists and planners who can design smart cities. And if we designed cities for robots and analysts the job is simple. Ok, not simple, but possible. But cities are not places for robots. Cities are places...
Why the Best Bosses Stop and Engage Employees
If you've ever hesitated about the merits of employee engagement, then don't. Recently, it took 6 hours of face time to save about $10 million for one organisation. That's more a saving of $1.66million for every hour we engaged face-to-face. Better still, the savings...
Articulous developed the country's first augmented reality app for a planning scheme. It won awards, and four years later this innovation still excites people. Fast forward, and we've since created the country's first values-mapping computer-generated avatar,...
Consultation Fatigue is a cop out: 5 things it’s more likely to be.
It's 10am on a Saturday and no one's turned up. You've checked your online engagement hub and there's 12 comments ... all from the same 3 people who always comment. You shrug, sigh, and cite "consultation fatigue". But is it? Probably not. Consultation fatigue is fast...
Don’t get unstuck by difficult engagement
One of the resounding issues often brought up by clients is how to tackle difficult engagement. This might relate to highly emotional issues, opposing viewpoints, lack of strategic direction, or differing levels of commitment. The following tips will help you to...
