A guest post from Max Hardy of Max Hardy Consulting. QUESTIONS CHANGE EVERYTHING: TEDX TALK The opportunity to deliver a TEDx talk was something I felt I couldn't ignore. Landing on a topic, on a headline, proved to be challenging. I [...]
I recently attended the Temple Symposium on Community Engagement in Infrastructure. The topic of formal qualifications and experience levels of engagement practitioners received quite a lot of discussion. It would be fair to say that most of the guest speakers (who commented [...]
What is a bot? Chatbots (bots) are essentially a little bit of software that allows you to communicate with people, en masse, within a Messenger platform. Bots live in the same platform where most of us are spending more and [...]
Reflecting on the debate raging around the community on the issue of the marriage equality poll, I thought it would be interesting to evaluate the process with my community engagement practitioner hat on. For our colleagues who are not in [...]
An effective grievance management mechanism is an important social management tool for projects where ongoing risks and adverse impacts are anticipated. Want a quick guide to effective grievance management? Check out our free grievance management e-book. A well-functioning grievance mechanism [...]
The Equator Principles (EPs) and IFC Performance Standards (PS) have been considered as benchmarks in social and environmental policies, procedures and standards relating to project financing activities the last decade. Most resource companies who seek for lending from the Equator [...]
There is no one right way to undertake stakeholder engagement. The consultation process should be project-specific and reflect the nature and scale of the potential impacts. Regardless of which approaches and methods you choose, you cannot go wrong by applying basic [...]
INTRODUCTION: Why don't we evaluate more often? The Stakeholder Engagement/Public Consultation field has grown incredibly over the last decade or two, with higher expectations for consultation, and engagement activities now part of 'business-as-usual' for most organisations in the public and [...]
INTRODUCTION: We Stakeholder Engagement practitioners are nothing short of evangelical in our zeal to sing the praises and benefits of consultation/engagement. So much so that I sometimes wonder if we should just go ahead and form our own religion and [...]
INTRODUCTION: If you've included an online component to your stakeholder engagement or public consultation process, you will have made decisions about the best way to structure the process. There are various schools of thought and preferences, and often individual software solutions will promote [...]