consultation processes

If your region has come up with some perspectives perhaps via a Signal Panel, has combined this with data analysis and expert views to form some options or tentative findings then it may then be useful to use workshops and consultation exercises to validate, challenge, gain consensus and buy in to whatever recommendations appear to be coming out of the process.

Regional workshops are used widely in the SouthWest for different purposes. In this paper I describe the components we have found contribute to successful consultation workshops. I refer to examples used by the SouthWest Regional Development Agency for the development of ... Open Regional Workshops.pdf »

Consultation processes - Delphi Method. In the project Regional Key Competencies, partners have done research on the different consultation processes that exist in order to define which are a region’s key competencies. In our search, we came across different methods, among which the Delphi method, which was used in the FASIL project in Liege (see ‘example’). We did not choose to use this tool in this project, but we feel it is an interesting method that deserves a place on this web site. [...]. The Delphi method is well known method used for forecasting... Open document: Delphi Method_final.pdf »

Fasil part 1. Breakthrough to the future with the information society in the Liege Region. The thoughts that are expressed here show that the Information Society will in the near future have a very strong impact in many different areas of life and this throughout the entire world... Open document: FASIL - EN partie 1. »

Fasil part 2. The issues and observations - « Informaion society »Pyramid and regional development. Part two offers a set of assessments and issues formulated throughout the different steps initiated by the FASIL project (see part 1). These will be the subjects of interpretation and recommendations in part 3 of the present document...Open document: FASIL - EN partie 2. »

Fasil part 3. Strategies. priorities, projects. As far as development of the Information Society (I.S.) is concerned our region which disposes of considerable assets compared with other regions, owes it to itself to put into action a global strategy which should be stated according to our specificity’s. We will do this by referring to different levels of the pyramid (see part 2). The pyramid in this way will be completed by a series of observations and will constitute as many priority axes as needed for a successful development of the I.S. in our region....Open document: FASIL - EN partie 3. »

Round table dialogue introduction. It is a method developed to establish a co-operation between private companies, general practitioners and public levels to qualify the work with persons on sick leave [...] The method is used in the situations where there are more participants with different functions and purposes, however with a common interest in solving the certain task.... Open Round Table intro page final.pdf »

The Round table dialogue, as we work with it and understand it was specifically developed in connection with method development within the sickness benefit area in 3 small municipalities in Denmark at the beginning of the 1990s. The Round table dialogue is specific execution of social work [...] At first I will explain the organisation and the principles of the round table dialogue illustrated by a sickness benefit context. After that I will discus some theoretical approaches and finish off with some general views on the model.... Open Round table dialogue final.pdf »

The round table meeting. There are 5 stages in arranging a meeting - Preparation - Introduction - The meeting process - Conclusion - Follow up .... Open The round table meeting final.PDF »