Engage with Impact - how to ask the right questions

Elevate your engagement on every level by asking the right questions  

Looking to shift your engagement process into a new gear? Learn how to ask the best questions to get the best input from your community.

Often overlooked, this powerful step in engagement planning applies to any process, but is even more essential when engaging around long term strategies, visions or multiple plans. 

The questions you ask matter. Well designed strategic questions will:  

• increase participation rates
• guide participants to think deeply and contribute meaningfully
• cut through the complexity and engage people in technical issues without confusing them
• help lift people above day-to-day personal issues, look to the future and consider broader perspectives  
• elicit outputs that genuinely help decision makers tackle what’s hard  
• result in higher quality outcomes and more informed decisions 
• create efficiencies and a higher ROI

Designed for anyone planning to engage  

This session is ideal for anyone involved in planning for engagement around any issue.   

This skill is also essential when engaging people around strategic planning, and absolutely crucial if you want your community or customers to have input into multiple documents. 

An example of this is in the local government sector, where councils are seeking to build on previous engagement and ask people to revisit visions and have input into a set of plans every planning cycle. 

Gain expert insights and practical strategies

Learn from specialist facilitators co-founder and director Keith Greaves and principal Lyndal Mackintosh who will share expertise built from designing and delivering hundreds of strategic engagement plans.

This one-hour interactive session will build your confidence in and understanding of strategic question design – knowledge you can build into your engagement process. 

This is also an opportunity to connect with peers across multiple industries and sectors, with past attendees ranging from engagement managers and strategic planners through to leaders and decision makers. 

Event attendees also receive a free PDF resource jam packed with useful tips and learnings. 

PLEASE NOTE: This session is open to staff, managers and decision-makers in organisations that are looking to host or sponsor an engagement process (i.e. in the public, government and not-for-profit sectors). It is not designed for private sector consultants or professional engagement and facilitation consultants.