This day is designed to help people make sense of the world of policy work, 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 as well as reinforce the skills of proven policy professionals.
The course will be useful for civil servants who are new to policy work as well as providing valuable background knowledge for those from the public sector generally. People from the private, charitable and voluntary sectors who may be involved in implementing and influencing government policy will also find this course of enormous benefit.
Attendees to this course will:
- Gain a better understanding of what policy is and how policy formulation and implementation works
- Better appreciate who the most influential and important policy actors are
- Gain knowledge of proven techniques, good frameworks and intelligent insights to improve their policy work
- Examine policy making examples in the wider public sector
- Improve their ability to plan, assess and implement policy
Speaker: Zoe McNeill-Ritchie - Training Consultant
Zoë is a highly experienced professional trainer and consultant, specialising in policy development, Ministerial briefing and support, and policy communications. She has been working in these areas across Government and internationally since 2000.
Her portfolio has included design and delivery of the civil service fast stream’s briefing courses; policy development training for a wide variety of organisations in the UK and internationally; design and delivery of international policy skills training for the FCO; managing a “writing to persuade” programme for the European Space Agency; and designing, developing and delivering briefing skills training for a number of the Offices of newly-appointed Police and Crime Commissioners.
Zoë’s previous background was in providing policy and strategic advice and private office support for ministers in HM Treasury, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, as well as experience in the private sector as Director of a top-6 public relations company.