Policy Design – Two-Day Training Course – (London)
For details of reductions for group bookings, or to discuss any aspect of the seminar, please email David Leakey on [email protected] or phone on +44 20 7661 7817
Policy Design – Two-Day Training Course
Tuesday 27th June – Wednesday 28th June
Central London
Day One Tuesday 27th June Scenario Planning and Horizon Scanning
Day Two Wednesday 28th June Analysis and Use of Evidence, including M&E
Overview
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.
Who is the seminar designed for?
This course is designed for policy-makers at all levels, both those new to policy and those looking to develop their skills further. The intention of the course is to equip you with a set of tools for designing policies that achieve their intended outcomes and help you understand how to apply the tools to your policy work. As such it is designed for people working at all stages of the policy cycle who wish to ensure that their policies are strategic, robust and future-proof, mitigating risk and enabling the development of more impactful policy interventions.
How will you benefit from attending?
You will learn a range of tools and approaches to enable you to develop more effective and resilient policies that can be successfully implemented. The training will empower you to improve your policy’s strategic quality, as well as its likelihood of meeting your goals to deliver successful outcomes. It will also help you to present a policy proposal more effectively to different audiences.
Learning objectives
As a result of participating in this highly interactive four-day training, you will:
- Be able to gain insights into the potential future threats and opportunities that could arise in any policy area
- Understand the different types of evidence that may inform your policy design
- Explore how to present the results of analysis of evidence
- Understand the key stages in the policy cycle – from design to implementation to evaluation and beyond
- Understand the factors that make the difference between policy that works and policy that fails
- Be able to choose between the wide range of possible options for achieving government policy objectives
- Have a framework for monitoring and evaluating policy impacts and be able to adapt accordingly.
Agenda
Times on the Agenda are in UK Time
The course runs each day from 09:30 – 16:30
Day One Tuesday 27th June Scenario Planning and Horizon Scanning
09:30 Introductions and Aim of Day
Session One Understanding Horizon Scanning
- Why looking ahead matters and how it supports strategic thinking
- How horizon scanning fits into the policy cycle
- Who to involve?
- Different business needs and the different approaches that can be used
Break
Session Two Using PESTLE / STEEPLE
- Understanding Driver Mapping
- Exercise -using PESTLE/ STEEPLE to identify drivers that are opportunities and/ or threats
- How to prioritise future opportunities and threats for action (taking into account organisational strengths and weaknesses)
Long Break
Session Three Scenario Planning
- The impact of uncertainty on achieving objectives, scenarios and how this relates to risk management
- Trends analysis and scenario planning compared
- Scenario creation exercise
- Considering combinations of scenarios
- Analysing the opportunities and threats in different scenarios
Break
Session Four Scenarios and Policy Options
- The range of possible strategic policy options for responding to opportunities and threats
- Using scenarios for stress testing options
End of Day Wrap-Up
- Further questions
16:30 Close of the Day
Day Two Wednesday 28th June Analysis and Use of Evidence, including M&E
09:30 Approach and Structure of the Day
Session One – Evidence and How Best to Analyse It
- Identifying and defining different types of evidence
- What constitutes useful evidence?
- Getting to the root of the problem
- Knowing what matters to decision makers
- Analysing costs, benefits and risks of different options
- Analysis and evaluation
Short Break
Session Two – Pitfalls in Analysis
- Working with uncertainty
- The danger of not establishing clear decision criteria
- The danger of not thinking systemically
- Cognitive biases (e.g. confirmation bias) and analysis
- Using alternative scenarios properly
- Tools and techniques for overcoming the impact of biases
Long Break
Session Three – Presenting Evidence
- Different ways of presenting evidence and analysis
- The power of context
- Summarising the thought process clearly
- Preparing material and data to present to different audiences
- Embracing challenge from stakeholders
Short Break
Session Four – Planning for Monitoring, Evaluation and Continuous Policy Improvement
- Planning how to monitor progress on policy implementation
- Ensuring the right measures are in place
- Planning evaluation
- Ensuring policy learns from previous evaluations
End of Day Wrap-Up
- Further questions
16:30 Close of the Course
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
Price
The price of attending this two-day Training Seminar in Central London is:
GBP£ 1,000 per person
USD$ 1,240 per person
CAD$ 1,650 per person
EUR€ 1,140 per person
For details of reductions for group bookings, or to discuss any aspect of the seminar, please email David Leakey on [email protected] or phone on +44 20 7661 7817
