Five Questions Every Engagement Professional Should Be Asking in FY26

New financial year. New opportunities to rethink your impact.

Whether you’re delivering projects, shaping policy or influencing strategy, FY26 brings fresh challenges—and with them, potential to innovate. Here are five sharp questions to help you reflect, refocus and recharge your practice:

1. Are we still reaching who we think we’re reaching?
   The Engagement Institute’s Inclusive and Accessible Engagement Policy underscores the need to ask not just who’s at the table, but who’s missing—and why.

2. What does impact actually look like in our context?
   Measurement matters—not just the headline numbers, but the stories, shifts and lived outcomes behind them.

3. Where are we playing it too safe?
   Some of the most meaningful community outcomes come from taking smart, supported risks.

4. Are we building momentum—or starting from scratch each time?
   Strategic engagement builds trust over time. Are you leveraging past relationships and lessons learned?

5. Are we investing in our own growth?
   The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2025 identifies that nearly 40% of required skills will shift by 2030—and human-centred skills like critical thinking, empathy, resilience and social influence are set to rise in importance.

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Sources:

🔗 World Economic Forum – Future of Jobs Report 2025

🔗World Economic Forum – Top 10 Work Skills of Tomorrow (2020 article)