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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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Community Engagement

Ten ways to engage with young people

October 13, 2021

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. …

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Community Engagement

Reaching young people doesn’t need to be hard, but it needs to be engaging

May 06, 2021

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 …

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Community Engagement

150,000 people engaged – Community insight #9 Age

May 31, 2019
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Community Engagement

150,000 people engaged – Community insight #4 Creativity

April 18, 2019
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Communications

Substance over slogans

April 10, 2019

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 …

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Community Engagement

School holidays. To engage or not? When it’s appropriate and why it’s usually not.

November 22, 2018

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 little …

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Digital Engagement

Are online surveys dead?

September 26, 2018

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? …

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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

The truth about common ground and community engagement

June 22, 2018

Common ground is something that people agree about even if they disagree about other things (Merriam-Webster, 2018). It can be an important objective of community engagement where there is strong disagreement or conflict between groups. However, reaching common ground is not always an …

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Communications

No one’s listening, right?

April 26, 2018

How good are your powers of persuasion? Here’s 5 simple steps to selling the most complex ideas. …

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Community Engagement

When engagement gets tricky: tips to get you across the line

March 28, 2018

When engagement gets tricky: tips to get you across the line A question we hear time and time again from our clients is how to tackle difficult engagement. Whether it be highly emotional issues, opposing viewpoints, lack of strategic direction, or differing …

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Employee Engagement

What makes a great leader?

February 21, 2017

Drawing from my own personal experience, there is one exceptional leader who I will never forget. He had a way of connecting and cutting through. His authenticity, energy and commitment to delivering his vision was palpable, you could feel it simply by …

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Communications

Could non-verbal expressions add value to an engagement campaign?

February 07, 2017

Communication is so much more than the spoken word. While many of us like to verbalise how we feel or think, it’s often the expressions that go with our words that add meaning. The question begs then, could we analyse only those …

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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

Eight Easy Steps to Workshop Greatness!

August 25, 2016

There are workshops that conjure up images of a dreary room full of disinterested people, negative attitudes, poor outcomes and bad coffee. I’m going tell you how to avoid running one of these workshops, ever again. …

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Communications

“So what is it you do for a living” – Your SME story

July 21, 2016

If you’re running an SME, your story, your point-of-difference, your services need to be instantly ready to roll off the tongue. …

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Digital Engagement

Online Engagement and the Online Disinhibition Effect

May 17, 2016

The online disinhibition effect is a loosening of social restrictions and inhibitions that would otherwise be present in normal face-to-face interactions. …

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Communications

Why Small Business Should Spend Big on Communication

April 26, 2016

The key for business is to add value to logos and visual branding. That value comes from communication which transforms a logo and brand into reality. …

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Community Engagement

Why Engage? Because we’re Human.

April 19, 2016

In an age where data is king, and every transaction and enquiry is trackable, some will ask “why engage?”. Why spend the time? Why take the added expense? …

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Recent Posts

  • How to manage tough facilitation 8 August 2022
  • How to humanise data in community engagement 20 July 2022
  • Mo the Motel Cat (or How the Toughest Engagement is the Most Important) 30 June 2022
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  • What we learned from engaging with 150,000 people 13 June 2022

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