Learning to balance that pressure to ensure that it doesn’t eat up your brain space in your down time is critical to ensuring a good work/life balance. So how do you find that space?
Community Engagement
Engaging The Community More To Gather Data
In community engagement, we often talk about involving the community in decision making, from providing feedback on options, to deliberating in forums or on citizens juries, or even voting.
Community Engagement – Don’t Forget About The Data
Of late, our team has been very busy working on a few very interesting, challenging and exciting engagement projects.
Emerging Trends in Community Engagement
Over the past 12 months, we have workshopped with hundreds of engagement professionals across every state and territory and throughout New Zealand, and this is what we’ve learned about the emerging trends in community engagement.
A Picturesque Valley, A Bridge And A Touch Of History Made For A Special Event
Articulous was part of the opening of the James Ivory Bridge in Providence last week, celebrating a major piece of infrastructure for the region and recognising the area’s rich farming history and its future as a vibrant new community.
IAP2 Core Values – Do We Need A Refresh?
The values have served us well in practice and challenged us to deliver engagement that can meet these ideals. But, to me, there is one burning question and that is ‘do we need a refresh?’
Community engagement versus stakeholder engagement
Over the past few months of IAP2 training there have been some very interesting discussions about community versus stakeholder engagement.c
I’m Spending so much Money and Time on Engagement but Nothing’s Working
This is exactly what a company said when they called in desperation. They had a huge team, were spending lots on materials and they didn’t feel they were getting traction. And they are not alone.
How to Create an Engagement Strategy that’s not a Door Stopper
On complex projects, it’s really tempting to create a door stopper of an engagement strategy. The kind that’s so thick it probably rivals the length of the technical studies for the project you’re engaging on.
