The Boréalis Blog

Category: Community relations

Community relations

What you need to know about the AA1000 Stakeholder Engagement Standard

For the vast majority of businesses that strive to build trusted relationships, stakeholder engagement is an ongoing journey. So is the road to adopting more effective stakeholder engagement strategies and...

Jean-Charles Thiry
September 17, 2020

Community relations

5 Reasons Why CRM Is Doomed to Fail at Stakeholder Engagement

Everyone’s talking about stakeholder engagement these days. For good reason: it’s vital to gaining and maintaining access to valuable business resources. Consider Facebook’s recent $7 billion share-price drop. When the...

Patrick Grégoire
June 29, 2020

Community relations

Why engaging with Stakeholders during crisis is crucial

A word from our CEO on the Covid-19 crisis Everyone needs reassurance in times of crisis. You included. But I would urge you to put your stakeholders first. Because your...

Patrick Grégoire
March 20, 2020

Community relations

How Stakeholder Mapping Tools Can Improve Your Stakeholder Management

See why mapping stakeholders is one of the smartest ways to manage stakeholders, and how stakeholder mapping tools can simplify this process. Find sample stakeholder mapping templates, too.

Patrick Grégoire
February 28, 2020

Community relations

FPIC : Free, prior, and informed consent in the mining and oil & gas sectors

Companies operating in the extractive sectors face numerous challenges that firms in other industries do not have to contend with. First, the richest oil and gas reserves and mineral deposits...

Patrick Grégoire
October 22, 2019

Community relations

Think twice before migrating your stakeholder engagement software

Most organizations that need to secure a social license to operate to ensure successful project delivery have long switched from Excel spreadsheets to stakeholder management software. But not all platforms are made equal. Some require you to take the time-consuming route of having to migrate just to access the latest version of the software – a route that can put your hard-earned data at risk.

Francis Dupont
February 7, 2019

Community relations, Stakeholder engagement

Online Engagement vs. Overall Stakeholder Engagement

Online engagement is the new trend in the stakeholder engagement era, but does that mean that it alone can support all stakeholder engagement activities?

Francis Dupont
October 18, 2018

Community relations, CSR, Public Affairs, Social and Environmental Performance

Infographic: The Global Rise of Stakeholder Engagement

While stakeholder engagement has been ongoing business for organizations in mining, oil & gas and energy industries for over 30 years, to the broader business world, it’s now a concern...

Sarah Busque
August 28, 2018