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Community Engagement

Equity-Centred Community and Stakeholder Engagement

March 23, 2022

“Equality is giving everyone a pair of shoes. Equity is giving everyone a pair that fits”Unknown Engagement is more than simply informing stakeholders of key organisational decisions. It’s about nurturing relationships, building trust, and cultivating shared visions. Engagement is a complex process …

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The personal lessons engagement taught us in 2021

January 26, 2022

We’ve made it through a most interesting year. A year of engaging with communities, communicating with transparency, and, let’s face it, making our way through a maelstrom of mandates, masks, and maintaining social distancing.  We wrapped up the year with our leadership …

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Employee Engagement

The Great Resignation: Employee Engagement in a Post-Pandemic World

January 19, 2022

The Great Resignation has fast become kitchen table talk. The media talks of job vacancies going unfilled for months and productivity hitting the floor. How can organisations use employee engagement to stop your staff quitting their 9 to 5’s? Whether or not …

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Community Engagement

Using the Maccas, Woolies and Coles Mindset to Engagement

September 01, 2021

If we really want to get more people to engage with councils and governments on the important topics, then we need to shake up engagement. Let’s apply a McDonalds or a Woollies / Coles / Aldi approach to public engagement projects and …

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Community Engagement

Four favourite methods to bring your workshop or focus group to life

March 22, 2021

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 and tested methods that are engaging …

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Community Engagement

How to write a community engagement plan

February 23, 2021

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 engagement.  Here’s a list of what to include in your community engagement plan and why it’s …

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Community Engagement

What is community engagement?

February 04, 2021

Community engagement is the practice of gaining community input or feedback, or collaborating with communities, to make better decisions or to implement changes. The International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) Australasia defines community engagement as: “an intentional process with the specific purpose …

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Crisis communications

The toughest of projects

February 02, 2021

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 communities experiencing really difficult community challenges like racism or domestic violence. There are …

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Community Engagement

150,000 people engaged – Community insight #6 Meaningful engagement

May 10, 2019
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Community Engagement

150,000 people engaged – Community insight #4 Creativity

April 18, 2019
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Community Engagement, Digital Engagement

Engagement tools: paper vs digital. Which is better?

November 01, 2018

In recent years digital engagement has really taken off with people experimenting with new technologies that make engagement activities more accessible and sustainable. As leaders in the digital engagement sector, Articulous is often called upon to help clients who want to be …

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Community Engagement

Why everyday people turn up to community engagement activities

August 30, 2018

It was a Saturday morning. The first day in a four-month process for members of a citizen engagement process to tackle a very tricky issue. …

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Communications

Asking the right questions – it’s all in the framing

June 28, 2018

For some people the tricky part of engagement can be actually making the decision to engage and working out how to go about it. While it’s vital to have a strategy that informs engagement, it’s equally as important not to skip past …

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Community Engagement

Why live community forums are making a comeback

January 16, 2018

In the past few months I’ve had the pleasure of attending a number of live community forums in South East Queensland. While attending these forums it struck me how much has changed in community engagement practices in the past ten years. More …

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Community Engagement

Why an Ethical Approach to Engagement is Critical

April 13, 2017

Ethics in engagement is vital. We need ethics to keep the process open, honest, inclusive, far-reaching, respectful, fair, collaborative, and informative. Without ethics, people lose faith in the engagement process, they don’t trust it, they feel used, marginalised, unheard and irrelevant. …

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Community Engagement

Consultation does not necessarily mean that the community gets what it wants.

December 20, 2016

There have been a few projects in the media of late where community groups have lamented a lack of consultation on projects prior to delivery. Many of these projects have centred on construction and development but a few have involved policy development …

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Community Engagement

Facing the Music can build Community Trust

September 13, 2016

I recently had the pleasure of travelling throughout the Surat Basin in south west Queensland with a client of Articulous for a week, facilitating community information sessions. There were a few key lessons that I took away from that week that I …

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Communications

How to stop the Conversation Block!

August 09, 2016

Some people thrive on blank slates. Others respond better if they are given context, background and solutions. Either way you need to know your objectives and stimulate the conversation. …

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Community Engagement

Public Meetings – the good, the bad and the ugly

May 12, 2016

Public meetings. Ugghhhh. We often try to avoid them, but to be perfectly honest, I’ve also seen them work really well. …

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Communications

Evaluation – what does it really mean for your communication or engagement project?

February 02, 2016

Evaluation is a common word in communication and engagement circles, and yet it is often overlooked or hastily considered at the conclusion of a project. …

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