2 DAY WORKSHOP – IN PERSON PLACES AVAILABLE

Interactive learning suitable for practitioners at all levels. Learn from experts with years of policy experience at all levels.

Co-author of the highly-acclaimed and longstanding Australia Policy Handbook, Peter Bridgman leads a two-day immersion in policy advice and production. Along with experienced policy professional, Nonie Malone, this is a workshop delivered by practitioners, not academics, and tailored to the work on your desk right now. 

TOPICS COVERED:

• Develop new policy skills and build on your existing skills
• Understand why developing policy advice is hard
• Come away with new tools and frameworks to improve your analysis
• Navigate the complex policy environment
• Distinguish the elements of good policy and learn from policy failure
• Know how to engage stakeholders effectively
• See how policy practitioners lead and manage policy
• Develop confidence in planning and execution for effective implementation and evaluation
• Explore the interface between research, evidence, analysis, implementation and evaluation
• Know how to balance control and flexibility to deal with uncertainty

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COURSE OUTLINE

DAY ONE: POLICY IN CONTEXT

1. Policy Issues
   • What is “public policy” and why is it important?
   • How do issues become policy issues?
   • Prioritising competing policy issues
2. Policy analysis
   • How do we analyse policy issues?
   • Analytical tools and concepts
   • Innovative thinking
3. How to make a difference: policy instruments
   • What tools do we have to make a difference?
   • Which tools are the right ones?
   • Understand legislation: when to use it and when not to use it
4. Policy players
   • Methods for effective stakeholder communication
   • Ministers and Cabinet  / Council
   • The role of the policy analyst
   • Managing up essentials: influential communication and action

DAY TWO: POLICY IN ACTION

1. Coordinating policy action inside government
   • Consultation with other agencies
   • The role and influence of central agencies
2. Policy decision making
   • Policies that make sense to decision makers
   • Framing policy arguments
3. Implementation and evaluation challenges
   • Implementation as success and failure
   • How do we know if our policies achieved the desired result?
4. Integrating policy lessons
   • Essentials for good policy making
   • Dealing with uncertainty and time pressures
   • Project management for policy and programs
   • Managing in: maintaining and upgrading your own and your team’s policy capability