Community engagement Archives - Writing For Councils

Case Study: Review of a Communications Plan

Pauline Webby is a Senior Water & Wastewater Planning Advisor who used the Community Engagement Planning tools to review her communications plan. Overview Project: Review of a communications plan for developing new wastewater solutions for two Wastewater...

Create Better Consultation Documents by Starting with the Options

AI tools, Community engagement

One way to build a consultation document is from the ground up – reviewing the source documents, thinking about the topic and drafting the supporting content before landing on the central questions for the document. But another way is to focus on getting the options...

Create Community Engagement Plans That Work With Your Natural Strengths

Community engagement

Does the term ‘community engagement’ make you want to run for the hills or dive right in? Your reaction is likely to depend on what type of engagement is included in your plan. For example, you may love or dread: presenting to an audience being available to...

Ideas for your next consultation document

Community engagement, Council documents, LTP documents

Here are some ideas for you to consider when developing your next consultation document.They are sourced from nine of the best LTP consultation documents in 2021, according to the judges of the 2021 Taituarā Great Consultation Documents Competition....

How to use Whole Brain Thinking to be successful at work

Community engagement, Council documents, Reports

Whole Brain Thinking is a great tool which you can use when: preparing a community engagement plan writing a strategy, plan or report planning a meeting making a presentation figuring out why you’re annoyed with someone! Whole Brain Thinking was developed by Ned...

Community engagement on climate change

Climate change, Community engagement

Here are some inspiring examples of councils engaging with their communities about climate change, from the New Zealand Coastal Society’s Special Publication 5. (The image above is from the cover of this publication.) Auckland Auckland is developing a series of...