Posts Tagged ‘Collaboration’
Some reflections on, and tips about, deliberative engagement processes
There’s a growing community of practitioners out there talking, thinking and experimenting with deliberative engagement processes. I happen to be one of them, and I’ve just facilitated my 80th deliberative process. My first was back in 1998, which I presented on at an IAP2 Conference in Banff the following year, sharing a session with the…
Read MoreIt’s always a Leap of Faith: Reflections on a ‘successful’ deliberative process that never delivered
Max Hardy (Max Hardy Consulting) and Anna Kelderman (Shape Urban) Designing and facilitating deliberative engagement processes have been among our most satisfying professional experiences, though they don’t always come to plan. Several years ago, we teamed up to work on a very challenging project to create a new planning strategy that identifies increased infill development…
Read MoreGet Unstuck in Your Engagement Career – New Mentoring Opportunities Available.
I’ve built a career on knowing how to deal with complex problems and helping organisations get unstuck, skills that can also be incredibly valuable for helping you develop a career that works for you and your needs. Community engagement is no easy job and mid-career engagement practitioners can come up against a variety of challenges…
Read MoreScoping under the microscope
I’ve been wanting to blog about how we can better scope and define projects for quite some time, especially for authentic co-design. Now we have a tool to move beyond the binary negotiable/non-negotiable approach in project development I couldn’t resist any longer. We all know it’s handy when engaging the community, to differentiate between project…
Read MoreHow safe is it to participate?
Something we don’t discuss much is the importance of the ‘do no harm’ principle when engaging the community (especially relevant now with the Covid-19 pandemic). Anthony Boxshall and I identified ‘people feeling unsafe’ as one of the key challenges to co-design. We rely on bringing together a diverse community of interest, but what do you…
Read MoreTurning around an inauthentic co-design process
Having a definition is one thing; doing it well, or authentically, is something else again. We outlined five key principles, that for us, help to explain the elements of an authentic process.
Read MoreChannelling Fran Peavey – generating strategic questions for those who sponsor community engagement and collaboration
As many of you will know I have long been a fan of Fran Peavey; especially her work in developing the concept and practice of strategic questioning. Fran put forward the power of questions that make it impossible for the status quo to remain. Questions that create movement; questions that cannot be answered immediately, without…
Read MoreHow to ensure the ‘community’ helps frame the shared agenda
Over the last month, Liz Weaver, Vice President, Tamarack Institute and I have been engaged in an email exchange puzzling out the answers to many wicked questions about collective impact and community change. Below is part I of V, where we discuss how to ensure a community agenda not just a shared agenda. How do we ensure…
Read MoreHow do we measure progress in collective impact, when most measures are lag indicators?
Perspectives from the field: A conversation about collective impact and collaboration from Australia and Canada Over the last month, Liz Weaver, Vice President, Tamarack Institute and I have been engaged in an email exchange puzzling out the answers to many wicked questions about collective impact and community change. Below is part II of V, where…
Read MoreWhy is local context a critical success factor when engaging the community?
Perspectives from the field: A conversation about collective impact and collaboration from Australia and Canada Over the last month, Liz Weaver, Vice President, Tamarack Institute and I have been engaged in an email exchange puzzling out the answers to many wicked questions about collective impact and community change. Below is part III of V, where…
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