The key to meaningful community engagement is capturing a breadth and depth of stakeholder ideas and opinions. This includes those who may be marginalised in traditional engagement approaches. 28% of the Australian population lives in regional and remote areas, making...
“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....
If you want fresh thinking and innovation, then you need to engage with young people. We’ve run Australia’s first youth summit on climate change initiated by a Council, and engaged thousands of students through travelling shows, and ran a curated film competition....
Youth engagement is becoming an increasingly important part of engagement activities where projects and decisions have an impact on the youth of today and are likely to keep impacting them into the future. In any engagement project young people are typically one of...
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Amanda discusses five creative ways to engage people when you think they don't want to be involved. 1. Create a brand for your engagement It's not enough to say 'come and hear about this work'. Create a brand and a campaign. 2. Talk about community topics They might...
When you think about some of the great marketing campaigns in the world, you think about the slogan and the catchy jingle. You know the ones – they give you ear worm when you turn on the TV or radio. Undeniably these slogans are great for the products they...
As a general rule the school holidays are best avoided when planning community engagement activities because people are generally harder to reach and disengaged from reality during holiday periods. This is especially so at Christmas when everything tends to get that...
You may have heard that online surveys are dead. Even though you’re constantly being bombarded with emails and website pop ups requesting your valuable input in the form of an online survey. How many of them do you simply ignore?
