The flipside to being the parent of a toddler is the tantrums. As any parent, at any time, will tell you, there is nothing like a toddler tantrum to test your newfound Zen-like state. The best possible time for a tantrum too is at maximum inconvenience for you…
Being employed is a little bit like being in a relationship – it requires commitment from all parties for it to be an effective, lasting partnership.
Over the past few months of IAP2 training there have been some very interesting discussions about community versus stakeholder engagement.c
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.
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.
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.
When organisations start the journey of embedding engagement into their workplaces, the often start with creating an engagement framework.
If there is one underlying message from both the recent election in Queensland and the rumblings surrounding a potential change of Prime Minister in Canberra it is that party powerbrokers believe that in both cases they have struggled to ‘sell their message”.
You’re at a networking breakfast at a table full of strangers. It’s early. The coffee hasn’t arrived yet. And you worked late last night. Somehow you’ve got to make small talk.
