How to Recover from a Poorly Attended Public Meeting

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.

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November 7, 2014, 12:00 PM PST

By Simon Lapointe

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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FULL STORY: How to recover from a poorly attended public open house

Tuesday, September 9, 2014 in Civicly

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