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Four favourite methods to bring your workshop or focus group to life
When delivering a workshop or focus group it can be a challenge to hear from all voices in the room. One way to encourage everyone to have their say this is to use a few tried...
Hidden Persuaders: Prince Harry and Meghan interview
You live in a world where opinions rather than truth seem to carry the public mind. So the Hidden Persuaders take you behind the forces that do this. They are Dr John Harrison,...
Four reasons community engagement matters
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Community engagement matters - it's a two-way street that can deliver benefits to your organisation, your project and, more importantly, to...
How to write a community engagement plan
Writing a community engagement plan can be a daunting task for any project manager or community engagement officer. There’s a lot to consider when planning community...
Building resilience
Resilience comes in many forms, whether it be discovering new skills, building new relationships, being more informed, taking decisive action or working with people who share...
What is community engagement?
Community engagement is the practice of gaining community input or feedback, or collaborating with communities, to make better decisions or to implement changes. The...
The toughest of projects
Last week, someone asked me what “tough projects” meant. It varies. It might be engaging on a policy change to address climate change, working on COVID, or working with...
Tackling tough problems – improving staff morale
The executive manager shook his head. “I don’t know what to do. The annual staff survey results aren’t good. Staff morale is falling.” It wasn’t the first year. Morale had fallen...
Behaviour change
In 2020, the critical importance of behaviour change became apparent. Especially in the sectors of health, mental health, disaster resilience – all which featured so heavily...
