The Regional Development Company's highly experienced senior consultants share a breadth of regional knowledge from many different speciality consulting areas.

We know and appreciate that every community is unique and every project has its own, individual process towards the end result.

We believe our success comes from building achievable solutions on the existing strengths of communities. To begin, we'll bring together your current resources, research and support structures to form a base. Then, we'll work with you to define your visions and goals. From there, a focused service package with a mix of activities will be created to achieve your outcomes.

Our integrated service package includes:

Visioning
To capitalise on opportunities, we'll work with you to identify a sustainable, long-term vision through the development of strategic regional plans, council corporate visions and community directions plans.

Planning
From research, consultation, action and implementation planning, to reviews and evaluation, we'll tailor a business development or revitalisation plan that is practical, easy-to-use and will achieve realistic outcomes.

Capacity Building
Whether for individuals, community groups or businesses, we provide quality leadership development and training tools for board and committee development, organisational improvement and staff workshops and training.

Engagement
With regional projects involving a diversity of stakeholders, we employ inclusive processes amongst community and stakeholder groups to create cohesion, engagement, commitment and ownership of project outcomes.

Facilitation
Bringing together multiple stakeholders and competing agendas requires high-level facilitation and communication skills to identify core issues and define actions. Successful initiatives include national summit workshops, contentious community consultation forums and community and operator input for strategic regional planning.
In all our work we subscribe to the International Association of Facilitators "Statement of Values and Code of Ethics for Facilitators" [download pdf 11KB]