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Lack of encouragement prevents women from entering leadership roles
Supporting women in all industries of the workforce is an essential component of achieving gender equality. Allowing women to lead and affect real change ensures that this...
Your people matter: Creating a diversity, equity and inclusion action plan
As leaders in public participation, we consider it part of our professional duty to ensure we act as a conduit for peoples’ voices. This includes the hardly reached voices - the...
What do facilitators fear most?
At the start of each of our advanced facilitation training sessions, we ask participants a crucial question - “what is your worst facilitation fear?” For many people, the idea of...
Facilitating the tough stuff: How training can make it easier
“What was it about your toughest facilitation moment that made it so tough?” ...is the question we ask even the most experienced facilitators at the start of a day of...
Engaging in the field: How training can help you to feel safe and confident
Community engagement supports our society to progress fairly and equitably. By engaging with the public frequently, openly and transparently, public servants ensure that...
Shifting from confrontation to conversation – reviving the art of working through conflict
As communities get more enraged, and the problems we face get more complex, we desperately need to learn how to work through conflict and work together. Online bullying,...
What’s in it for companies who ‘walk the talk’?
The phrase ‘walking the talk’ has survived the test of time. As big businesses and corporate leaders are increasingly held to account - and relied upon to create positive change...
Looking to 2024: Our top trends for communities
The turn of 2020 heralded a change to Australian and global cultural life that was profound and widespread. Threatened by the fragility of our supply chains and institutions when...
How we can use data to improve internal communication
Increasingly, employers are leaning on analytical tools and data sources to gain insight into their workspaces and employees. As work environments adapt and modernise, companies...
Benefits of working from home vs working in the office
For many Australians, the best thing about the years of the COVID pandemic was the shift to enabling office workers to work from home. Although at the time, this felt isolating...
