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This section explains the different ways you can
develop your skills and understanding, ranging from simple things you
can do on-line now, to in-depth training provision.
On-line Assessment:
Try a simple test of how much you know and identify what you might want to learn more about:
Training courses:
A review of existing training providers on the subject of analytical and delivery capability.
This should help you find a course based on a lot of major the
subjects in this Places Handbook. Most of the courses are for anyone.
Government Office Familiarisation Sessions:
Open to Government Office staff only, this one day
face-to-face training course will will be a useful way to get a better
understanding of how to use the handbook and how to use the tools and
techniques in practice. You will be encouraged to do a Practical
Exercise to really cement what you’ve learnt.
Government Office Delivery Champions Course:
Open to Government Office staff only. If you are
really interested in this stuff and have good experience of supporting
delivery in practice or have strong analytical skills you may want to
put yourself forward for the Delivery Champions Course. This is an
intensive course, working through the detail of the key delivery tools
and techniques and looking at how other organisations such as PMDU use
them. This is a very practical course with site visits and the
requirement to follow up the event with an in-depth Practical
Exercise. After completing the course and the Practical Exercise
you will be added to the pool of GO Delivery Champions to support other
colleagues. Equally, if you are looking to broaden your experience and
are interested, the CLG new Local Analysis and Performance Unit (LAPU)
will be offering the delivery champions opportunities to work with
them on their in depth research projects on key delivery problems -
reporting into the LRG Cabinet Committee (i.e. ministers). If
you're thinking that this is just not the right time, the training will
start after the LAA refresh so should fit nicely with LAA
workload.
A bit more about the Practical Exercises......
After attending either the Familiarisation Session
or the Delivery Champions course you will be expected to try out what
you’ve learnt in a real work situation. The outcome will be a
written account (very short for the familiarisation session, longer for
the champions) of how you used the tools and techniques from the
training to address a delivery challenge. To ensure the Practical
Exercise is more than just a paper exercise, you will be able to
submit your written account to an expert who will give you feedback on
your method and offer tips and guidance for improvement. This is
not a ‘marking’ exercise and will not be recorded or sent to anyone
apart from you. You may be thinking - isn't this all just extra
work for me? Well, not really as the aim is that your Practical
Exercise would focus on something you were doing anyway, but you could
then adapt it using some helpful tools, techniques and templates from
the Places Handbook to further develop your work.
Any completed Practical Exercises should be sent to [places.handbook@rcu.gsi.gov.uk - Dead Link].
A bit more about the training......
If you are interested in either the Familiarisation Session or Delivery Champions course, please contact [places.handbook@rcu.gsi.gov.uk - Dead Link].
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