Stakeholder Engagement

Articles and resources on planning and delivering effective stakeholder engagement for WA government, industry and regional organisations. Covering stakeholder mapping, engagement strategy, IAP2 principles, and how to design processes that build trust and deliver agreed outcomes.

Ditch the Ground Rules: How to Build Psychological Safety in a Workshop

Ditch the Ground Rules: How to Build Psychological Safety in a Workshop For years, I opened every workshop the way every facilitator gets taught to. A slide of ground rules. Respect each other. One conversation at a time. Phones away. I’d watch arms cross before I’d even finished reading them […]

Dealing with angry stakeholders

Dealing with angry stakeholders can be a challenge As a facilitator, it’s important to have a clear plan when approaching a workshop or project where you anticipate that you’ll be dealing with angry stakeholders. This is real The following tips are based on a previous stakeholder engagement program run with […]

A simple community engagement process to understand stakeholder concerns

How to design a simple community engagement process to understand stakeholder concerns A case study of a proposed highway realignment through a small country town and the community engagement process used… The Williams township is located about two hours south-east of Perth, almost halfway between Perth and Albany and is […]

What a Seagull Taught Me About Stakeholder Engagement Principles

A brief insight on stakeholder engagement principles Not long after I started my consultancy business I was invited by my local town council to attend a ‘community visioning’ workshop. It taught me a lot about stakeholder engagement principles. I was interested to see how it was run from a facilitation […]

Six tips for engaging managers in decision making processes

Engaging managers in decision making processes can be a challenge for many of us. Remember as a kid when there was something you really wanted? Something out of the ordinary? Like an overnight stay at Jay’s place – who also happened to live on an ice cream-based diet, owned a […]

Challenges in stakeholder engagement – six tips to help

Challenges in stakeholder engagement – six tips to help you in your next project Here are my Top Six tips for managing challenges in stakeholder engagement. These are largely based on a stakeholder engagement program with community members. This project focused on the redevelopment of a local park to include residential […]

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