Public Involvement Manual Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Public Involvement Manual Set forth systematic processes to be followed in public involvement activities. Public involvement will become increasingly an integral part of the Service's activities a part of our way of doing business. Nearly everyone in the organization will share in that responsibility. Knowledge and skills in the techniques needed to interact effectively with the numerous publics will be essential to many positions having program responsibility. All personnel involved in decision-making processes leading to significant actions will be provided information and training in the basic principles and skills of public involvement, including interpersonal communication, conducting meetings and workshops, and public involvement strategy and policy development. This Public Involvement Manual has been prepared to serve those needs. It includes major sections dealing with the general principles of public involvement, structuring public involvement programs, and public involvement techniques. The manual contains a wealth of information on assessing the need for and formulating and carrying out public involvement; not as a separate activity, but as an integral part of our program. Those having responsibility for an interest in public involvement will find this manualinformative and useful. It should be used as a reference resource document and not as a cook book with specific recipes for different situations. It will provide useful ideas and information which, when employed with enthusiasm and tempered with good judgement, will contribute greatly to the ability of our agency to carry out its mission in a manner responsive to the public's needs and in concert with that public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.