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Leading Policy Teams

This is an open programme and an in-house training course, which we can deliver either online or in person. For further information and pricing contact [email protected] or phone on +44 20 7661 7817.

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Overview

This seminar is designed to give you an opportunity to explore the challenges and opportunities you face as a leader developing and communicating your policy both within your team and externally. It is intended to equip you with a better understanding of how to steer your policy through ambiguity and a fast-changing landscape, especially in today’s world, where expectations on the speed of policy delivery to meet political imperatives have increased. 

We will look at which qualities an effective leader needs and how to apply these in the policy world. We will consider how to work effectively with stakeholders across government and beyond, applying established best practice approaches. And together we will look at some tools to help you influence others and negotiate successful outcomes.

Who is it designed for?

The seminar is designed for team leaders working in lead policy roles in the civil service, as well as the wider public sector, who wish to ensure that they are making the best use of their skills so as to get the best out of their team in making successful policy.

How will you benefit from attending?

You will:

  • Feel more confident handling the complexities of policy and coping with uncertainty and change
  • Have a greater understanding of the skills and capabilities needed to lead a policy team in both office-based and hybrid situations
  • Be clearer about when to seek expert support and how to work with external stakeholders and manage those relationships effectively, and how to do this most effectively in your particular circumstances
  • Learn from the experiences of others on the event

Learning outcomes

  • Understand models of strategy and policy, and ensure that you can apply and communicate these in your role
  • Learn how to establish policy visions, and how to manage this process if you are leading a hybrid policy team
  • Understand the roles of experts and stakeholders, and how to manage the process of working with outside input in different contexts
  • Analyse and understand how to delegate and lead in a hybrid working environment

Agenda

Session One Policy and Strategy
  • Welcome, introductions and overview
  • Policy and strategy: sharing understanding of definitions
  • Analysis of models
  • Building in versatility to manage processes in hybrid collaborations
  • Sharing delegates’ experiences
Session Two Group Exercise
  • Establishing policy visions
  • Ensuring effective communications and buy-in within office-based and hybrid teams
  • Facilitated discussion
Session Three Leaders, Teams and Experts
  • Examination of the roles of leaders, teams and outside experts
  • Ensuring clear lines of communication within your team and with external collaborators and stakeholders
  • Understand some useful procedures and approaches for hybrid policy development and delivery
  • Delegate input
Lunch and Individual Exercise – Working with Stakeholders
Session Four Leading through Uncertainty
  • Approaches to leading your team and colleagues through different kinds of uncertainty
  • Focus on hybrid working in terms of the importance of clarity, shared understanding of roles and responsibilities, and shared goals
  • Identifying methods to predict, mitigate and manage uncertainty
  • Influencing skills
  • Discussion of delegates’ views and experiences
Session Five Delegation Skills and Leadership
  • Delegation skills and leading in your specific context
  • Considerations and techniques
  • Sharing of delegate input and review of the day
Close

Our L&D ethos

  • We’re here to enable you to perform better

Our L&D team

  • All former practitioners, now professional trainers, our L&D team have provided open and bespoke solutions for more than 100,000 public servants from 120 countries

Our L&D seminars

  • A vast reservoir of international, transferable knowledge and perspectives about effective, delivery-focused approaches to working smarter in the public sector

Please contact us for further details, or to arrange a conversation with a member of our training team to discuss in-house delivery options, including tailoring the day’s training to your specific organisational development needs. You can email David Leakey on [email protected] or phone on +44 20 7661 7817.

Crown Commercial Service supports the public sector to achieve maximum commercial value when procuring common goods and services.