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The Firm's experience in consulting the public is extensive, innovative and very successful. For over thirty years, the Firm has been designing and refining techniques to measure public opinion and the rationale behind it - to meaningfully involve stakeholders and the wider community in both research and evaluation, as well as to help with making choices. The RETHINK GROUP has pioneered many effective consultation approaches that ensure you hear from a cross-section of those you need to reach, and guarantee that all who attend know they've been heard. Our 'hands-on' techniques are designed to be interactive and include everyone equally in the discussions. The techniques focus on idea exchange, and create an atmosphere that reduces confrontation and encourages collaboration, consensus-building, and 'win-win' solutions. Some of our innovative approaches include: Search Conferences, Community Forums, Reference Groups, Community Response Panels, and Visioning Circles. Our programs and techniques are custom-created in response to the unique needs and circumstances of each client and project. One of our highly successful techniques that can be applied to any of our 'hands-on' group interaction approaches utilizes a wall of mural paper, sticky notes and coloured dots to record the detailed/'in their own words' perspectives of all delegates, to illustrate and theme the responses, and to allow the opportunity for everyone to get involved in prioritizing the collective opinions/responses of the group. In a strategic planning exercise, different coloured dots are utilized to provide clues about the importance of various strategic directions and possible timing of specific actions. The Firm also incorporates many traditional techniques such as surveys, focus group workshops, key informant interviews, and open house presentations into our consultation programs. |
