Facilitated workshops and consultation

Effective research and consultation with communities, key groups and stakeholders informs strategic and service planning processes and ensures that the key issues, needs and opportunities are identified. Facilitated workshops can encourage individuals and organisations to challenge existing ways of service provision, enable changing expectations to be identified and managed and underpin the introduction of innovative ideas.

Consultation also forms part of the performance management process, enabling a view to be taken on what has been achieved and providing information to contribute to continuous improvement of sport and cultural services and opportunities.

Yew Consulting has wide experience of research and consultation. We can help with facilitated workshops and other forms of consultation, including survey based work, and with the evaluation and interpretation of the data collected. We can also provide advice and support on inclusion issues and on engaging with the whole community and hard to reach groups.

We can assist with:

• Facilitated workshops using innovative techniques that encourage involvement and the sharing of views
• Face to face or telephone interviews and discussion groups
• Survey work with the public, with community groups and with hard to reach groups
• Interpretation of information and data collected
• Provision of feedback to the community and stakeholders
• Development of an organisational or project consultation or community engagement plan
• Identification of best practice
• Benchmarking of performance

Follow this link for examples of projects successfully completed by Yew Consulting.