These six AI tools will help you:

• take a strategic approach to designing a community engagement process that suits your personality AND encourages input from a diverse range of people

• come up with good questions that encourage thoughtful input

• use these insights to guide your development of a comprehensive engagement plan.

Here’s how each tool works.

Tool 1: What’s My Engagement Style?

This tool helps you see how your natural thinking style influences your community engagement approach. The tool:

• uses realistic council scenarios that apply directly to your work

• involves you in an interactive conversation to help you reflect on your natural engagement strengths and challenges

• helps you create a personalised action plan.

Tool 2: Whole Brain Engagement Adviser

This tool helps you create engagement strategies that genuinely encourage participation by people with all four thinking styles by:

• suggesting specific engagement methods that will resonate with different people

• encouraging honest self-assessment about where you feel resistance to some of these methods (that are outside your own preferred style) and helping you adapt these methods to be a better fit for you. 

Tool 3: Good Questions

This tool helps you move beyond surface-level feedback by developing powerful questions based on the ‘Coaching Habit’ methodology. Using these questions will also help your stakeholders develop new insights about the issues you discuss with them.

You can use this interactive tool to:

• develop good questions for your stakeholders about your topic

• structure the flow of your questions to build on each other in a logical way
• focus on a few powerful questions to encourage valuable insights.

Tool 4: Engagement Summary

This tool bridges your self-awareness with practical planning. It compiles your insights from using Tools 1, 2 and 3 into a concise Engagement Summary to inform your community engagement plan.

This tool:

• prevents insights being lost so that you keep your focus on developing an engagement approach that aligns with your natural strengths

• creates a shareable document for team discussions

• gives you a summary to inform the development of your community engagement plan (when using Tools 5 or 6).

Tool 5: Community Engagement Planner

This tool guides you step-by-step through the process of developing a comprehensive community engagement plan that reflects both your strategic insights and your project requirements by:

• inviting you to upload your Engagement Summary so that this content can be integrated into all aspects of your community engagement plan

• taking a step-by-step process through the community engagement planning process, so that all the decision you make along the way are reflected in subsequent sections

• suggesting engagement methods based on the stakeholders, the project context and the level of the IAP2 engagement spectrum selected by you

• helping you establish clear, measurable objectives and evaluation criteria.

Tool 6: Consultation Document Analyser

If you have already prepared a consultation document, this tool extracts the key engagement insights and helps you to transform them into a comprehensive community engagement plan – ensuring you don’t overlook valuable content you have already developed. You can use this tool to:

• benefit from insights from your consultation document

• integrate the direction outlined in your Engagement Summary (developed through use of Tools 1-4)

• follow a step-by-step process through the community engagement planning process, so that all the decisions you make along the way are reflected in subsequent sections.