5 Techniques to Increase Community Confidence
Does your community have confidence in your organization? In you? Your decisions? Your ability to lead? These are critical questions that all organizations and their leaders need to ask themselves –...
View ArticleMost Commonly Made Mistakes in Stakeholder Engagement
Google ‘how-to’ on just about every topic and you’ll get an endless list of articles and posts telling you what TO do. Knowing this will set you down the right path, but equally as important, knowing...
View ArticleYou’ve Heard Them. But Are You Listening?
According to Listening Legend, Dr. Ralph Nichols, “The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood.” And “The best way to understand people is to listen to them”. Sound...
View ArticleEvolve or Die. Top 3 Trends in Stakeholder Consultation.
The expression ‘evolve or die’ always felt a little over-the-top to me, in terms of organizations needing to better align with the times, but now I say it with conviction. If your organization isn’t...
View ArticleConfidentiality VS Anonymity – What Difference Does it Make Anyway?
Confidentiality and anonymity, while quite different by definition, are often used interchangeably. As leaders and professionals, most of us already know this but it is a distinction that is not always...
View ArticleDealing with Contentious Issues
There doesn’t seem to be a shortage of hot-button issues in education. Whether it’s facility issues, re-drawing school boundaries, closing a school – even whether to serve chocolate milk at lunch – it...
View ArticleThoughtexchange Star App 3.1 – Improvements for Greater Insight
A few months ago we told you about the changes we made to our Star step and the Participant Star application in version 3.0. You can read the details here and I’ll summarize below. In this post I want...
View ArticleVideo – A Powerful Online Engagement Tool For Just About Any Organization
Few things are more captivating than a good story. And with online video views far surpassing most text-based content, telling your story in video has the potential to capture far more viewers. The...
View ArticlePlanning Successful Engagements – Know More Going In, Learn More Coming Out
At Thoughtexchange, we support collaborative leaders who need to earn and maintain the trust and confidence of their communities. Through our role we have learned about engaging various stakeholder...
View ArticleAsking the Right Questions – Know More Going In, Learn More Coming Out
At Thoughtexchange, we host community conversations that help leaders earn and maintain community trust and confidence. Good questions are the foundation for the most successful conversations and in...
View ArticleCreating a Strategy for Ongoing Community Engagement
Thoughtexchange gives parents an opportunity to share thoughts in a respectable, anonymous forum. I would also like to see a “climate assessment” engagement done by students for each school. Anonymous...
View ArticleDiscover – Listening & Learning from your Community
If nothing else, the discussion has been good. I appreciate that the district is seeking opinions from all stakeholders. No matter what happens, we know that all voices have had the opportunity to be...
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