IAP2 Archives

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.

Planning For Professional Development

At the end of every financial year, our clients start to focus on professional development as part of their budgeting process.

Emerging Trends in Community Engagement

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?

Community Engagement

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

Community 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

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

Community Engagement

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.