It’s a very common challenge – how to encourage people to pay attention to, and make decisions based on facts and not myths, rumours and misperceptions.
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Change is constant. Communicate it well – and with patience
Nothing endures but change. Heraclites, Greek philosopher (535 BC – 475 BC) I can argue communication is a by-product of change. Something is different; we sense it, and we need to know why it happened, and the process of figuring it out leads us to interact with others who may or may not be aware…
Bad advice on public consultation
By Doug Downs, managing partner Public and stakeholder engagement is definitely overrated these days. We live in an age in which subject matter experts, like engineers and lawyers and doctors – even politicians – have to constantly stage faux engagement events to convince regulators and the public as a whole that they are “listening” and…
Emotions are stronger than facts: Deal with it
by Doug Downs, managing partner I was reading an article the other day about what the author called “Radical transparency” in Stakeholder Engagement. The overall premise of the article was that with social media and Internet search engines today stakeholder engagement has become far more complex than perhaps just 10 or 20 years ago. I…
