Understanding the Political Dimension of Civil Service Policy Making – Tues 24 June

Description

This training seminar will examine in detail how political thinking and the political dimension of a government’s programme interact with the processes of the civil service making impartial and objective policy, and giving ministers impartial advice. It will look at the importance of the civil service having a proper understanding of this political dimension of the world in which you operate and work, and examine what political thinking is, what it is used for, and why it is important for you to understand it in your policy roles. It will also enable you to build a framework for acknowledging political thinking and a range of effective, yet simple, tools and techniques that can be used in your day-to-day work to support the decision-making process more effectively.