COLLABORATION:

Collaboration skills are necessary to facilitation, group leadership, and public engagement at any level. We all work with people. As public sector consultants, we usually find ourselves bringing different groups of people with varying perspectives to work together on common goals. You need to know how to collaborate and how to cause collaboration. Together we are even better. There is a reason why it is our motto. Collaboration is the core of democracy and it’s how big things get done. Here’s some of the latest information we have found on collaboration skills. Thanks for letting us share it with you.

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Collaboration

Documenting Citizens Advisory Board Advice

Citizens Advisory BoardCitizens Advisory Boards are convened by government agencies to seek advice over time. Members are typically selected from diverse perspectives. As a cross-section of the broader community, they commit to spending time together to develop agreement on the advice they will provide to the sponsoring agency they serve.

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Think Globally, Practice Locally: A Community Outreach Strategy

community outreach In September, TPC presented a session at the IAP2 Annual conference in Montreal to explore key issues facing the future of public participation. When everyone is connected to everyone else and opinions can be posted to the world from your phone, does anyone really care about coming together to talk ...
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Collaborative Problem Solving Basics

How are consensus decisions developed?

Consensus becomes possible within groups that are committed to honoring each person’s contribution. The collaborative problem solving process involves a shared commitment to listen collaborative problem solvingrespectfully to each other and the choice to allow each unique perspective to inform the whole view. A consensus-building group will ...
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When It Comes to Public Opinion, Conflict Avoidance is Not Conflict Prevention

Some quick thoughts about what we saw and heard at the September IAP2 North American conference in Montreal about capturing and responding to public opinion – specifically related to online engagement. As you may know if you attended or signed up to get our updates, we released the results ...
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Public Participation Survey Results: State of the Practice

public participation survey resultsThis summer, we surveyed IAP2 leaders and practitioners about the condition of our field in 2016, and the public participation survey results are in.

In fact, we presented those today during our 2016 IAP2 North American Conference session, titled “Over Our Dead Body.”

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