April 14, 2026When the District of Oak Bay set out to update its Active Transportation Strategy, the goal wasn’t just to check…
April 14, 2026Spring is here in the Okanagan. I can’t say that our winter was hard compared to most of the country,…
April 9, 2026What does it take to build trusting, long-term relationships with communities beyond project-based engagement? We’re launching a new pilot course,…
February 17, 2026Ever been to a workshop and the facilitator says: let’s just put your contribution in the parking lot! It doesn’t feel good. Parking lots are ugly…
October 20, 2025Recently at Engage Delaney, a few of us completed the First Nations Information Governance Centre (FNIGC) course entitled: The Fundamentals…
March 3, 2025One of the activities that participants enjoy in our IAP2 training is the virtual World Café where they discuss the…
November 17, 2017It was one for the record books! On Oct. 30 Delaney + Associates (D+A) partnered with Providence Healthcare in Ontario…
November 16, 2017As mentioned in our blog post yesterday, the Delaney + Associates team is attending the Michigan State University (MSU) National…
October 24, 2017If you are a project manager, a communications specialist, a business/policy analyst, a program evaluation specialist, a planner, or you…
September 25, 2017Delaney + Associates is excited to host the National Charrette Institute in Vancouver Nov. 14-16 to deliver its certificate training…
September 25, 2017Are you currently developing a community engagement plan? Considering how you engage with your clients and stakeholders? Perhaps developing or…
January 23, 2017This is the second in a three-part series on communicating in the "post-truth" era. Read the first part here. What…
January 20, 2017In our January newsletter, I shared my top three engagement trends for 2017. One of them included the oversimplification of…
January 5, 2017Around this time last year, I wrote an outlook for 2016 around engagement for our planet, country and home. Click…
January 5, 2017The context As we move into the New Year, and an era of increasing public engagement efforts by organizations and…
December 23, 2016We hope you have enjoyed our 12 Days of Christmas blog series, exploring our top 10 engagement principles. Thanks for…- December 21, 2016There are positions, interests and values in the world of stakeholders. When focused on positions, two parties are furthest apart. It’s…
December 20, 2016Many of the principles that we covered last week come together today. By carefully following each of the previous…- December 16, 2016Except for at Christmas time, and maybe the occasional birthday, most people don’t like surprises – particularly in an engagement…
- December 9, 2016This is part of an ongoing series exploring Delaney + Associates’ top 10 engagement tips, also known as our Company…
- December 8, 2016The holidays are here again, and so is the D+A 12 Days of Christmas blog series, full of engagement tips,…
September 2, 2016Have you checked out the Government of Canada’s consultations website lately? By our count, as of today (Sept. 2) there…
August 2, 2016It might be the peak of summer – when Canadians are all at the lake, the beach, the cottage or…- May 4, 2016(Note: This is the first installment of a two-part blog.) Are you an engagement imposter? I know I was! Here…
February 9, 2016I am usually on the other side of an engagement – the facilitator working to support the sponsor organization. Recently, I’ve been…
December 10, 2015For some of us on calendar-year budgets, it’s that time when we’re looking at where we went over and where…- October 30, 2015It’s an exciting time of year for us at Delaney + Associates – we’re busy preparing for HealthAchieve, one…
- October 21, 2015Have you ever had a conversation with someone who asked just the right questions at the right time, who maybe…
- October 2, 2015Simon Fraser University (SFU) Public Square presents City Conversations every first and third Thursday of the month. The conversations range…