Public and Stakeholder Engagement
Stakeholder Engagement and Public Consultation Approaches for Governments, Organizations, and Businesses
Stakeholder engagement helps clients understand the needs and perspectives of their stakeholders, manage risk, identify opportunities, enhance decision-making, and increase stakeholder satisfaction. Build enduring trust and credibility with the people concerned with and impacted by key decisions in your community or organization.
Get effective stakeholder engagement with support from our IAP2-certified professionals, ensuring every voice is heard and valued.
Partner with Praxis to transform stakeholder and community engagement into a strategic asset to support decision-making. Our expertise lies in tailoring the IAP2 Spectrum of Public Participation to our clients’ unique needs, defining the right level of stakeholder involvement from information sharing to decision-making authority. This approach not only identifies each stakeholder group, but also maps the commitment level required of stakeholders allowing decision makers to provide safe, inclusive, and accessible engagements and build lasting trust-based relationships.
Maximize the effectiveness of stakeholder engagement with tailored communications and engagement planning.
Communication is crucial for engaging both internal and external stakeholders. Our strategic approach ensures every voice is heard, integrating comprehensive communication strategies to effectively engage with all stakeholder groups. We collaborate closely with our clients to develop a tailored plan that serves as a definitive guide for engagement outreach, ensuring scope, budget, and timelines are maintained. This meticulous plan includes detailed engagement objectives, stakeholder information, and a robust activity schedule, all designed to align with an organization’s vision and mitigate risks.
Praxis offers diverse ways to reach key stakeholders to help our clients meet their goals and get the answers they need to make decisions.
From in-depth interviews offering a profound understanding of individual perspectives to workshops, world cafes, and focus groups bringing together participants for rich, qualitative insights, we help our clients capture key information to inform decision making. Clients can engage the public directly with our pop-up events and online or in-person open houses designed for interactive feedback and participation. Clients have the option to follow up with custom surveys crafted from comprehensive qualitative data, ensuring results are informed and effective.
Praxis' digital engagement solutions offer stakeholders 24/7 access to ensure no voice goes unheard.
Whether using a client’s website or crafting a dedicated and branded online platform, our experts can create online spaces to foster continuous, barrier-free stakeholder participation. With a suite of interactive tools from newsletters to quick polls, info blog, and FAQs, consultations will thrive in a secure, content-rich setting. We work with you to determine the engagement depth ranging from forum discussions among stakeholder peers to interactions only with the project team. An enduring online presence throughout your project helps clients stay connected at every project phase.
A 'What We Heard' report serves as a crucial engagement tool in shaping policies and programs that truly reflect the public's voice.
Our comprehensive What We Heard reports encapsulate diverse perspectives and insights collected during public consultations into actionable insights, ensuring that stakeholders are informed and that decisions are made with transparency and inclusivity at the forefront. What We Heard reports allow clients to present transparent and data-driven information and decision making, resulting in strengthened stakeholder relations.
Looking for input and insights from the people of Saskatchewan?
Throughout Saskatchewan, Praxis regularly meets community leaders, subject matter experts, and other engaged citizens who are keen to participate when called on for projects that interest them. Praxis' Engagement Hub enables Praxis to recruit engagement and research participants to ensure our projects always deliver a range of voices from across Saskatchewan. With this database, our clients can access a rich and diverse pool of participants and insights for any Saskatchewan-based project requiring research and engagement.
To find out more, email us at engage@praxis-consulting.ca
Testimonials
Our Clients Speak
From the time the proposal was presented to conduct our Provincial Infrastructure Feasibility Study, Praxis was knowledgeable, compassionate and professional. Their unwavering desire to truly help the Urban Indigenous People succeed came across throughout many community meetings and during the presentation of final studies that really told our story. They captured the essence of the work we needed to show and did so with true openness, charisma and class. The Praxis team that worked with us will forever be part of our Friendship Centre Family moving forward.
We were really impressed with the staff's ability to deliver on a fairly tight deadline. They were affable and fun to work with. We all feel we got a lot more data out of this project than we expected and it's information that we might not have been able to get on our own.
Praxis played a key role in designing and conducting an employee engagement with our compliance team. They brought significant expertise and empathy to the engagement, with staff who could relate to and build trust with our team. This created a sincere experience for our staff and the end result was a more meaningful set of recommendations for change that we could embrace.
