Managing Risk in Policy and Projects
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
Effective policy development requires the ability to identify the risks that the policy should address and the risks of different policy options. Policy and projects need to identify and address the risks to successful implementation. This training course enables you to deliver successful policies and projects by providing you with strategies for successful management of the risks that affect your policies and projects.
It also incorporates a focus on the specific issues caused by working in hybrid teams, outlining approaches to mitigate any impact on the policy and project process that could be caused by this blend of remote and office-based working.
Who is it designed for?
This event is for civil service and public sector officials with policy and project responsibility at all levels, including senior staff. It has also been designed bearing in mind those people in the civil service involved in policy and project work in the context of hybrid team working patterns.
How will you benefit from attending?
You will gain insights from the trainer and course colleagues that will improve your ability to apply risk management methodologies to your policy and project work. This will increase the likelihood that your policies and projects will achieve (and be seen to achieve) their intended results.
Learning outcomes
You will:
- Understand how to identify, analyse and prioritise risks, including risks associated with hybrid working practices
- Be able to produce effective strategies for managing risks and apply these to your own specific context and role, including how to apply best practice procedures wherever you are based
- Know how risk management approaches and methodologies can improve policies and projects
- Increase your ability to achieve the intended benefits from your policies and projects
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.
Agenda
Session One Building Risk Analysis into the Policy Development and Decision-Making Process
- Processes for identifying risk
- Assessing risk impact and likelihood in matrices
- Building the risk register
- Incorporating the known and possible risks of hybrid working into the process at an early stage
- Risk management approaches for avoiding risk aversion and cognitive biases
- Successful risk communication and ensuring risk is understood by the whole team
- Delegate experience sharing
Session Two Strategies for Analysing Risk in the Policy Process
- Undertaking a risk management process analysis
- Building and assessing organisational resilience to both identified risk and to the “unknown unknowns”
- How to assess the logistical, psychological and operational impact of hybrid team working on the process
- Tools for assessing organisational risk appetite
- Delegate input
Session Three Strategies for Mitigating Risk
- Methods for factoring in risk analysis into the strategic policy development and the decision-making processes
- Trouble-shooting in risk contexts – what are the characteristics of risky behaviours in policy and project management? – what specific risks should we build in, in the context of hybrid working?
- Sharing delegates’ examples of what works and what does not work in risk mitigation
- Analysis and transferability of lessons learnt into delegates’ own working conditions and cultural contexts
Lunch
Session Four Risk Management in Project Planning
- Understanding risk in the context of project planning
- Defining project risks, including logistical, communication and motivational risks
- Incorporating risk mitigation at the project planning stage
- Analysing risks to long term project success
- Common pitfalls and knowing what to avoid
- Facilitated delegate discussion
Session Five Risk Management in Benefits Management
- Identifying and mitigating risks to benefits achievement
- Final discussion session
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.
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