From the periphery, planning and community engagement seems easy. You schedule a few public meetings. You confer with a few experts and put together a plan for the future of a community. Easy? Nope.
A step-by-step formula to overcoming engagement strategy failure.
We all make mistakes and we all have failures. Over the course of our professional lives we can all count on having a few epic fails.
From the periphery, planning and community engagement seems easy. You schedule a few public meetings. You talk to a few folks, confer with a few experts and put together a plan for the future of a community. Easy?
Nope. Planning and public engagement processes are never easy. The fact that most engagement processes fail is hardly a secret.
Failures come with the territory, especially in the field of planning and community engagement. Still, failures can drag you down and recovering from them is not always straightforward....
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