Utilising Evidence In Decision Making

It is often the case that bad policy and poor management decisions can arise from the lack of consideration of relevant evidence or even the absence of any evidence at all.

This 'Utilising Evidence In Decision Making Training' course explores how to properly source the right evidence while challenging assumptions made about evidence collection and evaluation. Part of our Policy Skills series, Utilising Evidence in Decision Making is available on request and will help participants understand the importance and benefits of having firm evidence that meets the needs of modern decision making.

Key Training Features:

  • Evidence in policy case studies
  • Challenging beliefs, assumptions and values
  • Managing processes and organisational barriers
  • Seeking and sourcing evidence
  • Analysing evidence in context
  • Managing risk and uncertainty
  • Fitting into the wider policy environment, in particular, institutional constraints

Who Can Attend:

Participants who need to develop their ability to understand, source and deploy evidence for strategic and organisational decisions.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Participants will gain a finely-tuned understanding of the importance of a firm evidence base as well as the knowledge necessary to recognise where this fits into their typical policy or project cycles.
  • The participant will also acquire skills to help them better understand and use evidence in all levels of decision making, as well as develop new ways of looking at what leads to the highest quality decisions being made.

Summary

Duration

10:00 - 16:00

Price

Available to be delivered In-House. Contact us for a quotation.

Location

Face to Face or Virtual

In-House Option

This course is available In-House and can be tailored to meet your individual training requirements.

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Lead Trainer

Thomas Foster

Thomas Foster

Thomas joined the Civil Service in 2009, and participated in the emergency Spending Review and went on to play a role in designing the incoming government’s flagship Universal Credit policy.

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Thomas Foster

Thomas Foster

Thomas joined the Civil Service in autumn 2009, in time for an inside view of the first peace-time Coalition Negotiations for almost a century. He participated in the subsequent emergency Spending Review and went on to play a role in designing the incoming government’s flagship Universal Credit policy. His career has since spanned a diverse range of areas, from financial regulation and developing new financial instruments for private sector investors, to frontline management of a London Jobcentre. In 2015 he joined the Department for Transport where he built and ran a Briefing and Public Affairs team for the rail franchising programme that oversaw one of the most active and controversial periods in the twenty-year history of privatised rail. Last year, he moved to a policy and regulatory role in Local Transport where he is currently overseeing one of the biggest open data projects in UK government history and a wide-spread review of the future of regulation in the taxi and private-hire sector. Prior to joining the civil service, Thomas went to Law School in York, as well as studying Politics and Contemporary History at university. He worked in a variety of private-sector fields including high executive search and recruitment for UK based financial services companies.

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