Policy (2): Developing options and implementing policy
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8th Mar 2012 |
This course forms part of a CMI Certificate in Leadership and Management
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Supporting policy makers meet the needs of the Modern Policy Profession; this module focuses on identifying and developing policy options, the need for robust delivery planning and evaluation. It will provide you with tools and techniques to guide you through these stages of the policy cycle
Learning Objectives
- Understand how to apply a range of creative thinking techniques to a policy problem in order to develop and present policy options
- Understand how to appraise options using a variety of tools
- Understand the complexity of delivering policy and the need to use and understand delivery partners
- Understand how to plan for evaluation of policy
Programme
| 9:15 | Registration |
| 9:45 | Chair’s Introduction
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| 10:00 | Option generation
Innovation and creativity exercise
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| 11:50 | Refreshments
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| 12:00 | Option appraisal
Setting criteria, weighting and scoring, techniques to select the optimum, force field analysis. The ideal and the possible. Workshop on an example.
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| 13:00 | Lunch
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| 14:00 | Delivery chains
How are we going to deliver the policy? What partnerships will be required?
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| 15:00 | Refreshments
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| 15:15 | Evaluation, review and continuous improvement
How will we know if we have been successful? What is the baseline? How will we know if the costs of delivery are greater than benefits of achievement?
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| 16:00 | Close
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Please note that the programme is subject to change without notice