This day is designed to help people make sense of what is often experienced as a mysterious environment with its own confusing jargon. It will help people with little or no experience to understand and feel more confident as a participant in a policy job.
It will also provide valuable knowledge for those who need to understand the process of implementing and influencing government policy.
By the end of the day delegate will:
- Have a better understanding of what policy is all about.
- Appreciate who the main players and important influencers are.
- Provide some frameworks and insights.
- Provide some links to policy making in other parts of the public sector.
- Provide tools and techniques for developing policy.
Speaker:
Hugh Lennon - Training Consultant
Hugh Lennon is a self-employed training and development consultant. Recently work includes delivering seminars and courses covering the business of Government and particularly training in Policy Skills. For several years past he has been an Associate of the National School of Government designing, developing and delivering courses for their Fast Stream students. Alongside Policy work Hugh enjoys developing students’ skills and understanding of the human aspects of management and leadership. He works in various training styles, ranging from delivering straightforward lectures supported by visual aids to facilitating self-directed experiential learning for personal growth or skills development. In working with clients and their staff he draws on a work history covering electronic engineering, (he is a Chartered Engineer and has worked at sites around the World on radar and navigation aid projects for the U.K. Ministry of Defence), through to Human Resource management including periods as an in-house management trainer and as Equal Opportunities Officer, again for the MOD. He has also worked in the Cabinet Office and at the Civil Service College.