Managing Highly Politicized Processes Click the above banners to view more information on these companies. Here's a summary of the discussion, plus editorial insertions. Government employees say the citizens are too demanding.
Citizens see government employees as cynical and corrupt.
A facilitator arranges a series of meetings. Members of both groups describe the qualities of people they most enjoy working with and discuss what it would be like if everyone had these characteristics. The objective is to encourage both groups to identify their ideal reality and how to achieve it. A task force charged with creating a policy to protect wetlands has been meeting for over a year. Because each stakeholder has a different agenda, little progress has been made.