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About the workshop
Day One
Planning and stakeholder engagement
Policy professionals need a range of skills to lead policy development and build policy capability; to evaluate context, evidence and outcomes to make an effective case for policy change. This practical, interactive day will equip you with key tools for exploring and explaining the place of a proposed policy within government and agency priorities.
Day Two
Manage risk and analysis in policy
Uncertainty is a constant in policy development and implementation, however it does not have to be a destructive factor and can represent opportunities for innovation, research and adaptive responses. By using critical, objective and evidence based thinking you will gain a key insight to understanding the nature of uncertainty and how uncertainty can be embraced to derive better policy outcomes.
Day Three
Complex policy for desired outcomes
Thinking evaluatively across the policy cycle, and being able to identify and measure public policy outcomes is a central capability of policy teams. By attending this workshop, you will build upon and gain new insights into techniques to effectively monitor, evaluate and communicate clearly about development and implementation of complex policy interventions and how these are achieved.
Agenda
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
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
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
Tailor Your Training Experience
To make sure you get the learning solution that’s right for you, we offer different levels of tailoring to suit your needs. Choose from three levels of customisation:
1.Off the Shelf
Love what you see? Great! Choose this option to take one of our most popular courses and bring it in-house for your team. Includes a pre-course consult session with our facilitator to make sure we hit the mark, and deliver the right learning experience for you.
2.Customised
Make sure you get the most from the course you choose, by tailoring the content to get the right fit for you. Speak to our team, who will work with you to pick and mix from a curated bank of training modules to help customise your learning experience.
3.Premium
Not on the list? Let us know what you’re looking for and we will find the right solution. Our team of learning specialists will work with you to develop a unique training course for your business. Through an in-depth consultation process, we will work with you to profile your learning needs and build a bespoke program from the ground up.
Speak with one of our team today to find which option is right for you.
Who Will Attend
Policy professionals from all levels and backgrounds, including but not limited to:
- Senior Policy Officers
- Senior Policy Analysts / Developers
- Senior Policy Advisor
- Senior Programs Officer
- Principal Policy Officer / Advisor
- Stakeholder Engagement Managers
- Compliance Officers
- Branch Managers
- Service Delivery Managers / Directors
- Evaluation Specialists / Managers