Civil Service Learning & Development

Global Government Forum provides a wide range of live, interactive training courses which build on our ethos of providing high-quality events and information for civil servants from around the world. Our courses are listed below, or for bespoke training programmes visit our About our training page for more information. For more details on our trainers visit Trainer biographies. We provide training delivered both virtually and face-to-face.

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This is a two-day training course taking place on Wednesday 21st and Thursday 22nd June

To succeed, governments and the officials supporting them need to understand how to make good decisions using the best available evidence. They policy-making is all about.This event is designed to equip officials with a strong understanding of the stages of effective policy making and the skills to deliver successful policy. The insights this event will provide, will improve your policy making wherever you are across the world. The event will be facilitated by a policy-making expert who has a very wide range of policy experience and who was worked with organisations across the world. This event provides two days of practical training, providing a comprehensive guide to policy-making for practitioners. The event will be very interactive, with a mixture of facilitated discussion and exercises that will provide practical insights. (Descriptif disponible en français).

21 June 2023
Online
Delivery, Policy, Strategy

This is a two-day training course running from Tuesday 27th to Wednesday 28th June in Central London

There are a number of highly effective tools that can be used to improve the robustness of your policy planning and development. This event covers the essentials that every policy maker needs. It addresses the development of the whole policy cycle: rationale, objectives, appraisal of options, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and taking forward lessons learned into the design of future policies.
27 June 2023
Central London
Policy, Project Planning, Risk Management
This training seminar will examine the most effective approaches to delivering policy objectives by means of understanding individual or group behaviour. It will look in detail at the methodologies policy makers can use, and how we can best understand how people think, feel and react; as well as gaining knowledge into what people are thinking about particular subjects at a given time. The seminar will examine generic and specific behavioural and psychological issues that need to be built into your policy formulation, development and delivery when you are seeking maximum effectiveness.
29 June 2023
Online
Delivery, Policy, Project Planning, Strategy
In practically whichever country you look at, women tend to be under-represented at the higher organisational levels. Many countries have legislation in place to address this issue, but even where discrimination and pay disparity are illegal, such bad practices often seem to continue with apparent impunity, often at alarmingly significant levels, despite the best intentions of the legislators. Other factors can also hold women back, ranging from external perceived expectations about leadership profiles, job roles, or a lack of opportunity, through to personal issues such as self-confidence and an absence of obvious career ladders for women to progress.

Global Government Forum are pleased to present two stand-alone, but complementary seminars that look into a wide range of issues affecting women who are either looking to move into leadership roles, or who are already in such roles, and who wish to equip themselves for a further upwards move.  

11 July 2023
Online
Governance, Management, Leadership and Teams
Governments have many and varied tools at their disposal. So how do policymakers make sense of all these possibilities and think about the best tools, or combination of tools, to use for any specific policy? How effective will they be? How acceptable? How feasible? One way of thinking about this is to adopt a ‘toolbox’ approach, in which governments have four primary types of tools available to them. These are nodality (governments’ power over information); authority (power to make rules); treasure (power over money, taxation and spending); and finally organization (power to establish groups to do things). This seminar will look in detail at these four categories of tools that policy makers have at their disposal, and how combining them in different ways can contribute to successful policy formulation and results.
12 July 2023
Online
Delivery, Governance, Policy

There are a number of highly effective tools that can be used to improve the robustness of your policy planning and development.

The methodical application of futures thinking, including horizon scanning and scenario planning, will enable you to think about and develop policy in a more strategic way, adding greatly to its value for policy-making teams and decision-makers.

13 July 2023
Online
Policy, Risk Management, Strategy
In practically whichever country you look at, women tend to be under-represented at the higher organisational levels. Many countries have legislation in place to address this issue, but even where discrimination and pay disparity are illegal, such bad practices often seem to continue with apparent impunity, often at alarmingly significant levels, despite the best intentions of the legislators. Other factors can also hold women back, ranging from external perceived expectations about leadership profiles, job roles, or a lack of opportunity, through to personal issues such as self-confidence and an absence of obvious career ladders for women to progress.

Global Government Forum are pleased to present two stand-alone, but complementary seminars that look into a wide range of issues affecting women who are either looking to move into leadership roles, or who are already in such roles, and who wish to equip themselves for a further upwards move.  

7 September 2023
Online
Governance, Management, Leadership and Teams
A policy is only as good as its implementation and delivery. This course considers the challenge of implementing and delivering strategic policy effectively. It guides you through a series of questions and tools that will help you make strategic delivery choices that are more feasible, that better address the key challenges you face, that work in different future scenarios, and result in sustained changes and better results for your stakeholders.
26 September 2023
Online
Delivery, Policy, Project Planning, Risk Management, Strategy
This highly practical half-day event is designed to help you to develop your skills and confidence in writing briefings for senior officials and political decision-takers. We will explore the policy context of briefing, examine a range of structures/templates for different type of briefs, and introduce a framework for writing policy briefs. The session will comprise a mix of guidance, discussion and practical exercises.
29 September 2023
Online
Communications, Policy
This event covers the essentials that every policy maker needs. It is ideal for those new to policy or those seeking to build on their existing knowledge. It covers the development of the whole policy cycle: rationale, objectives, appraisal of options, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and taking forward lessons learned into the design and implementation of future policies.
5 October 2023
Online
Policy