If you’re planning your own in-house engagement program, you’re not alone – many councils and organisations are opting to handle engagement internally. However it’s important to recognise that doing everything yourself can be overwhelming, especially if your team is already juggling multiple responsibilities. That’s where we can step in to provide an expert helping hand when needed.
Whether you’re just getting started with your planning or need support mid-project, we can tailor our services to fit your specific needs. Every engagement program is different, and our flexible approach allows us to assist you at any stage, so you can relieve some of the pressure from your team and focus on what matters most.
Here are some ways we are able to help.
Project Report for a Strategic Plan
Get some help to create a new Health and Wellbeing Plan or update your DAMP.
Has your strategic plan expired? We can help to facilitate the process allowing you to be the content expert to participate more easily in the planning process.
- Conducting a critical analysis of your strategic document, including the priorities, actions and progress.
- Interviewing action owners to explore achievements, barriers and opportunities for improvement.
- Benchmarking against relevant LGAs.
- Interviewing key stakeholders or partners.
- Developing an Evaluation Report with recommendations to assist in the preparation of the next strategic plan.
- Facilitating internal workshops to discuss findings and finalise recommendations.
Support to develop an Engagement Plan
Get some help to plan an engagement approach for a complex project.
- Conducting an online strategy workshop to draw out information from the project team.
- Reviewing background materials and evaluation of previous work.
- Drafting an Engagement Plan detailing the project scope, stakeholders, methods and evaluation plan.
- Conducting an online meeting to talk through the Engagement Plan.
- Revising your Engagement Plan.
- Preparing a presentation for you to present to Executive/Senior Leadership.
Delivery support
You need the human power to get out into the community.
- Conducting an online kick-off meeting to understand the project.
- Providing conversation facilitators.
- Creating a staff briefing sheet.
Write up support
You’ve delivered the engagement activities and now you need some help to make sense of the data.
- Conducting an online planning meeting to understand the project and needs from the report.
- Drafting a report outline and coding framework.
- Conducting data analysis and coding of short-form responses from across your methods.
- Writing a community engagement report.
Here is our Engagement Project Process and the different stages project cycle which we can step in at any stage.
Click here to view our past projects.
Let us help you streamline your workload, giving you more time to focus on what really matters – meaningful connections with the community.
Reach out today here or via hello@conversationco.com.au or at 03 8797 5362.
