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Manual Transmission – Does consultation act as an accelerator or a brake? Or do we need the third foot-pedal?
Read → iiConsultation – the best form of scrutiny? – Asking citizens and customers, and making their views highly visible, might do more good than a tick-box Inspection process
Read → iiiBroken Links – Consultation is part of a long chain of communications. What happens when important links in the chain are broken?
Read → ivBlogs as Consultation – Are blogs just a passing fad or can they be useful for consultation?
Read → vAvoiding the Blame Game – There are good, and less good, reasons for going to consultation
Read → viThe Magnet – Are some people more suited to the practice of consultation ?
Read → viiSlice & Dice – Is the targeting of specific community groups anything more than a new version of market segmentation?
Read → viiiPaperless Consultation – Has the goal of e-enabling consultations been achieved?
Read → ixWhat happens next? – The essence of a consultation exercise depends upon what happens afterwards
Read → xTick-in-the-box consultation? – A dangerous development for consultation is the trend towards listening because you’ve been told to do so – rather than because you genuinely want to hear people’s views…….
Read → xiThe Formality Threshold – Process implications and expectations are such that it’s important to recognise when a consultation is formal and when it is not
Read → xiiThe engine-room of engagement – What’s needed in order to establish meaningful long-term dialogues with stakeholders?
Read → xiiiStakeholder Mapping – Why getting a good understanding of the relative positions of your key stakeholders is a good route to successful consultations
Read → xivSeasonal Goodwill – Creating the right mood music
Read → xvPromotional Consultation?? – Is it ever justifiable to use consultation as a means of putting a neglected subject on the public agenda?
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