The Consultation Institute is currently working on a piece of research around the efficacy of various incentives and rewards that are offered to encourage participation in public consultation and engagement activities. I am getting in touch today to invite you to share your experience of using incentives to contribute to our research. When using incentives, […]
Incentives for public participation Read More »
Tuesday 7th June, 10am Our members exclusive coffee morning continues in June with a session on continuous engagement. Good practice in continuous engagement will be different for different bodies, dictated to by differing value drivers and performance indicators as set by the body that wishes to implement it. It goes beyond listening to the public’s view
The Perfect Blend, session 9: continuous engagement ☕ Read More »
It’s been a little while since we did a proper local consultation roundup hasn’t it? Though we no longer regularly repost local news stories, we do still keep an eye on goings on in local authorities, and you can be sure that whenever there Is controversy or something curious going on we’ll be sniffing around.
Two mistakes and a grave problem- a local consultation roundup Read More »
I fear the events of the week regarding Downing Street rule-breaking may rather put anything I say about goings on in Parliament into the shade, however I am nothing if not an eternal optimist, so let’s take a quick sweep across Britain shall we? Westminster One of the most significant challenges of Brexit was always
The Week in Parliament Read More »
Last week, the Institute spent a day out at the Built Environment Networking Airports Development and Future of Aviation conference at Manchester Airport’s Concorde Centre. There, under the wings of G-BOAC, the former British Airways flagship Concorde, we set out our stall and listened to experts from across the aviation industry discussing the post-covid reality.
Tuesday this week saw that State Opening of Parliament, the ceremonial occasion in which the Monarch (or in this case, her heir) formally opens the new parliamentary session by reading out a speech written by the Government about their legislative agenda. Although it serves primarily as a declaration of intent, for politics-watchers such as us
Planning for ANOTHER future- the Queen’s Speech 2022 Read More »
Listening effectively to the public, through professionally-organised consultations is a challenge. If decision-makers are to do better than just respond through knee-jerk reactions to opinion-poll data, care is needed to select consultation methods that provide the most useful and meaningful insight into the issues. There is no shortage of methods. Some techniques are quantitative in
Congratulations on your election to your new seat of [Insert Seat Here], and welcome to the wonderful world of local government! We’re sure you’ll enjoy your stay- however long that’ll be (just a little joke, you’ll get used to it). Or perhaps you’re an old hand? Been in opposition for a while maybe, and now
Dear New Councillor… Read More »
Last week, the Queen gave Royal Assent to the much-debated Health and Care Bill, completing its parliamentary process and making it into the Health and Care Act 2022. We wrote a lot during the debating phases of the legislation, and in a briefing paper highlighted where we thought the emergent issues might be. So, as
Over my many years of helping organisations to improve their surveys/questionnaires, one problem area has always stood out. When I teach this in my courses, I use my own name as an exemplar, but it applies to everyone: the questions are so often written from the world-view of the person who is writing them, and
Getting Out of Barry’s World Read More »
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