Five things every community engagement person should stop doing
Every day and in every industry we are continually adding ideas or processes. But so often we forget to delete. When we review or audit community and stakeholder engagement within organisations, we see how passionate our engagement colleagues are. Their passion for …
Top Fears for running Online Community Engagement
We’ve been delivering training to government and private sector companies on how to engage communities and stakeholders through digital and online tools. Using live polling and yes, even butcher’s paper, we’ve tallied the most common fears and obstacles for running online or …
What’s the Key to a Sound Engagement Process?
The answer is simple – focus on being a champion of the process not a champion of the outcome. …
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. …
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 …
How Can You Build Resilience When You Work in Community Engagement
It's Saturday, and you've had a long week already but you've got to manage a community drop in session. The local community is angry. There’s an action group, and a particularly angry man. …
IAP2 Spectrum – has it Reached its Use-by Date
I remember the first time I met the Spectrum. I was at a pub one night (truthfully – ok it was an IAP2 networking event when there were less than 100 members in Australasia). And it was love at first sight. …