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Advanced Policy Workshop


19th - 21st, November 2024 / Online

OVERVIEW


Elevate policy development, drive impactful changes, and manage complex issues

• Apply higher-level strategic thinking and influencing skills
• Navigate complexity, manage change, risk, and opportunity
• Assess evidence and context for policy change
• Improve stakeholder engagement and consultation processes

TRAINER


Joanne Smith

Joanne Smith is a seasoned public sector specialist with 15 years' experience advising the NSW Government across Health, Education, Environment, and Local Government sectors. In 2012, she founded Hatfield House Consulting, renowned for its strategic capability in resolving intricate program, policy, and stakeholder challenges. Joanne's leadership approach ensures tailored solutions that meet the unique demands of government agencies.

Policy Expert, Leadership Trainer & Executive Coach
Hatfield House

AGENDA


Workshop

Master policy planning, the art of stakeholder engagement, and strategies to tackle unexpected policy challenges.


Laying the foundation for policy success

- Outline the need for new policy or policy change

- Understand the knock-on impact of change

- Identify knowledge gaps to prioritise research and data needs


Building a policy community

- Identify, understand, and analyse key stakeholders

- Facilitate productive policy discussions

- Frame policy ideas to influence and gain support

 

Navigating real-world policy challenges

- Challenge existing policy assumptions 

- Examine unintended and perverse policy outcomes

- Manage unexpected policy requests and tight timeframes

  • Joanne Smith Policy Expert, Leadership Trainer & Executive Coach Hatfield House

Workshop

Explore best practice policy risk management, critical thinking techniques, and the impact of cognitive biases.


Planning for uncertainty and risk

- Apply critical thinking to define uncertainty and risk

- Explore and outline the sources of risks

- Use risk as an opportunity for better policy-making


Handling risk with evidence-based policy

- Ask the right questions throughout the policy cycle 

- Learn to distinguish misleading information

- Use evidence effectively for better decision-making


Cognitive biases in policy 

- Incorporate diverse perspectives in policy

- Implement strategies to mitigate biases

- Review and challenge surface assumptions with logic models

  • Joanne Smith Policy Expert, Leadership Trainer & Executive Coach Hatfield House

Workshop

Learn to simply communicate complex policy concepts, explore monitoring and evaluation models, and develop adaptive policies.


Communicating complex policy issues

- Simplify and clarify complex policy concepts

- Communicate evidence effectively at each policy stage

- Explore different types of visual aids to support policy evaluation


Monitoring and evaluation 

- Investigate program theory and methodologies

- Identify success measures for continuous improvement 

- Understand political implications and assess consequences


Big picture policy thinking

- Address key challenges of evaluating policy outcomes

- Utilise research, data and analysis for strong policy evaluation

- Prepare adaptive policies and be ready for change

  • Joanne Smith Policy Expert, Leadership Trainer & Executive Coach Hatfield House

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