Collaboration that engages the community and stakeholders in open dialogue is not an easy task in the face of competing demands on everyone’s time. Using a variety of techniques to supplement traditional workshops, including the internet and other electronic media, makes the process more interesting, informative, and engaging.
Whether the focus is land use, transportation, or special projects, we have earned a reputation as expert facilitators who listen, document ideas, and provide prompt follow-up.
Recognizing that there is no “one size fits all” formula for eliciting input, LSL draws from a menu of proven techniques, tailoring a program to the specific needs of the client and the project. Examples include:
- Drop-in open houses
- Design workshops/charrettes
- 3-D Visualization
- Agency days
- Stakeholder interviews
- Focus groups
- Surveys
- Internet surveys
- Electronic Polling
- Kidspeak
- Facebook
- Web pages
- Media relations
- Traditional town meetings and public hearings
- Public Workshop in a Box™ - LSL’s trademarked interactive (and fun) “home-made” meetings
“It is one thing just to attend a presentation,
it is another to actually be a part of it. It was definitely one of the more enjoyable public meetings I have attended.”
-Western Michigan University student participant in Kalamazoo Master Plan workshops |
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Master & Downtown Plans
Kalamazoo, MI
Gratiot Avenue Corridor Improvement Plan Project Website
Triangle District Charrettes
Birmingham, MI |
