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Venue: DPI&F Conference Centre, Ground Floor, Primary Industries Building, 80 Ann Street, Brisbane

Time: All workshops are conducted from 9am - 4:30pm

2-Day Workshop
Facilitated by: Professor Scott Prasser  and  Dr Gary Johns

Aims

Policy Solutions has developed two Advanced Level Policy Skills Workshops to build on the skills, concepts and strategies learned in the Essential Policy Skills Workshop and other introductory policy courses.

The Advanced Policy Training Program is conducted as a 2-day program but can be done as a 3-day in-house workshop tailored to your organisation's needs.

Who will benefit most from this Advanced Policy Program?

Public sector officers and managers who want to upgrade their skills and be a more effective policy player for their departments and who are involved in:

  • projects, programs and policy development
  • operationalising and implementing government decisions
  • working with stakeholders to achieve outcomes
  • strategic policy development
  • improving and reviewing programs and policies

Workshop Activities

Facilitators will lead discussion, providing key concepts, outlining relevant issues and providing 'core' information for participants to discuss and analyse. The approach is interactive with role-plays, case studies and hypothetical scenarios being used. Guest speakers and panel discussions will focuss on real world case studies and practical problem solving.

A case study is introduced in Workshop 1 that provides the basis for applying key concepts in a realistic public sector setting.


Workshop 1 - UNDERSTANDING POLICY, POLICY ENVIRONMENT AND POLICY FRAMEWORKS
This initial day clarifies the different meanings of policy, key frameworks for analysing policy, the international, domestic and internal government drivers for policy and gives particular attention to practitioners' own policy environments so that they can appreciate the key factors affecting their own policy actions

Key issues for discussion in this workshop include:

  • The meaning of policy
  • Frameworks for policy development
  • Drivers for policy
  • Understanding your policy environment
  • Getting a handle on being an effective policy player

Workshop 2 - DOING POLICY: Delivering Real Policy Programs and Solving Problems
This workshop provides skill development in the application of policy analys8s to deliver a policy program and solve a realistic practitioner focussed policy problem. It covers issue prediction, managing the issues, marketing and implementing policies, effective project management and developing appropriate evidence based arguments for policy action.

Key issues for discussion in this workshop includes:

  • How issues emerge on the agenda
  • Defining issues and problems in different ways
  • Assessing policy options
  • Considering 'good' policy and 'good' politics
  • Thinking about implementation
  • Evaluation and policy design
  • Consultation issues
  • Marketing policies and briefing ministers and stakeholders