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Policy (2)

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Policy (2): Developing options and implementing policy

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

Institute of Leadership & Management

The Institute of Management and Leadership (ILM) has approved this training course. ILM?combines years of research, knowledge and innovation to champion the leadership agenda?for all?and since 1947 they have carried out extensive research into the knowledge, skills, attitudes, behaviours and values of great leadership. Based on ILM’s core leadership values, this course meets the standard that enables learners who have completed to access the following benefits:

  • Membership of?ILM?and will receipt of an ICPS/ ILM?joint Certificate of achievement for the course
  • Access to a raft of resources to help you with your continuing professional development, including an award-winning library of e-learning content
  • A community of over 70,000 members worldwide enabling you to collaborate and grow your knowledge and skills
  • Receipt of weekly news updates, podcasts and cutting-edge research and a monthly published journal and invitations to topical webinars
  • Authorisation to use approved letters?AMInstLM (Associate Member of The Institute of Leadership and Management)?after your name for business correspondence

Learning Outcomes

  • 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
10:00
Option generation
Innovation and creativity exercise
11:50
Refreshments
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.
13:00
Lunch
14:00
Delivery chains
How are we going to deliver the policy? What partnerships will be required?
15:00
Refreshments
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?
16:00
Close

Please note that the programme is subject to change without notice

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Comments & Views

"The course met all of my objectives. The section on Policy design was very interesting and informative."

Charlotte Dann (BEIS)

"A great mix of practical advice and background information. Thank you!"

Andy Challis, Proskills UK