In an election year, the political landscape can feel like shifting sand. It’s a tricky challenge – how do we maintain momentum and community trust across infrastructure projects, behaviour change initiatives, policy, or community development when the mandate we’re working under could vanish on election night?
When the threat of another potentially devastating weather event was baring down on our home-base of Hawke’s Bay a few weeks ago, our region knew what to do.
The Levin Town Centre Transformation programme is bringing fresh-thinking to how Levin can take advantage of this once-in-a-generation opportunity, aiming to create an attractive and vibrant urban town centre that supports economic growth, that serves its community into the future and entices visitors from the north and south to visit and spend.
Is your team navigating conflicting priorities, inundated with requests from every direction, or trying to find the right balance between strategic work, new projects and essential BAU work?
The start of the new triennium approaches, and with it comes a rush of fresh enthusiasm, ideas and priorities. It’s a hectic time for in-house communications and engagement (C+E) teams and as anyone who’s worked at council knows, it’s all too easy to be overwhelmed by short-term requests and reactive work.
The practice of engagement, and the landscape it sits within, has shifted significantly in New Zealand over the last five years.
Frank Engagement connects communities, local government, central government agencies working in the regions, infrastructure organisations, and regional leaders to transformational projects for five years.
Building trust in your organisation and getting your messaging right go hand in hand.
Here are five simple tips for being a good spokesperson:
In the last few weeks Frank Engagement business manager, Ally Naylor and I have spent a bit of time on the road, travelling for work and meeting prospective clients kanohi ki te kanohi in Whanganui, New Plymouth, Wairoa and Gisborne.
Three years ago, we had just experienced our first COVID-19 lockdown and we were still very much in our bubbles.
