Archive : Month: July 2018

What about Bob? comments or feedback.” What about Bob?  Not the movie character about a successful psychotherapist driven to distraction by an obsessive-compulsive patient, but Bob from a local community fretting at your public involvement meeting that his house or neighborhood is going to be paved over due to a proposed highway expansion.   What if…

When you hear no at a public involvement meeting, do you think road block or opportunity? If the aim of public involvement is to encourage purposeful input into the decision-making process, then this naturally opens the door to objections and outright no's. However, with the right tools that inform and build trust, you can overcome…