Our Services

Connecting People

Connecting People

Whether you are a public or private sector organisation, your staff, your clients, sector interest groups and the wider community lie at the core of what you do. Taking your internal and external stakeholders with you in all the key decisions will ultimately ensure those decisions are not only sound ones but have widespread support to make them a success. Our senior team members are experienced at managing a wide range of people interactions from small community engagements to consultation exercises with senior managers across many industries.

Our services in this area include:

For further information on these services contact:

Ben Smith bsmith@rationale.co.nz
Edward Guy eguy@rationale.co.nz

Facilitation

While meetings are an inevitable part of office life, getting effective results is maximised by having someone to shape and drive them. This is often best done by someone removed from day to day discussions. Whether it is an informal planning session of a small team, or a highly-structured meeting as part of an ILM or BBC, our experienced facilitators can ensure your time is well-spent on discussing the things that matter and developing meaningful post-meeting actions.

Specific ways we can help you:

  • Pre-meeting agenda setting with sponsors
  • Impartially driving discussion and debate.
  • Identifying key actions.
  • Post-session communications and follow up.

Stakeholder Consultation

The timing and approach for your consultation is a critical part of your project planning. Our team boasts significant experience in designing and overseeing consultation processes for projects of any size or scale. Our people also have the knowledge and credibility to establish an effective rapport with your stakeholders that will ensure productive discussions. Through a mix of engagement types and smart outreach programmes, we can provide you with invaluable feedback and analysis as to how your stakeholders may be affected by your plans and what their interests are.

Specific ways we can help you:

  • Preparing stakeholder questionnaires
  • Conducting stakeholder interviews
  • Analysis and reporting of stakeholder feedback
  • Presentations and recommendations to clients

Community Engagement

Effective community engagement can be a critical success factor to many public or private sector projects. Early, comprehensive and genuine engagement can help ensure relevant parts of the community are well-informed and supportive of a new policy or project, and thereby avoiding potential adverse media attention or costly litigation. We can help you to minimise the risks in this highly sensitive area of policy development or project implementation.

Specific ways we can help you:

  • Developing an engagement plan
  • Facilitating community engagement at an individual, small group or large-scale level.
  • Managing communication plans.