Elements and Performance Criteria
- Assess the need for policy development and/or review
- Identify internal and external factors, issues, events, directions or government and/or board policies likely to cause changes to organisation policy.
- Identify the likely implications and impact of factors on policy development in consultation with stakeholders.
- Conduct a critical analysis of the need for new or revised policy including a scan of the wider internal and external environment.
- Recommend priority areas for policy development and/or review.
- Detail confirmation of the need for policy development and/or review with supporting evidence.
- Plan the policy development process
- Gather and analyse information for policy development
- Identify and engage with stakeholders through the establishment and maintenance of a representative and relevant policy network.
- Identify, gather, analyse and interpret information required to support the policy development process.
- Determine and apply an analytical framework for the development of the policy.
- Determine policy direction
- Develop a range of policy options and criteria for choice and communicate them to those responsible for selecting the policy direction.
- Promote specific policy options to executives within the organisation.
- Recommend preferred policy option.
- Determine risk treatments in accordance with the policy development plan.
- Obtain approvals.
- Draft policy
- Implement a cyclical process of consultation, feedback, identification of changes and re drafting.
- Implement risk management processes in accordance with the policy development plan to ensure progress against the timeframe and milestones.
- Add an implementation plan in the policy that details responsibilities for implementation and strategies for transition, change management, initial and ongoing training and maintenance of the policy.
- Add mechanisms within the policy for monitoring compliance, quality assurance, and evaluation of the policy.
- Finalise development of policy
- Clear policy through organisational channels, and gain agreement of critical stakeholders.
- Ensure all stakeholders, particularly those who will be responsible for implementing the new or revised policy, are informed of the outcomes, and manage fallout from dissenting stakeholders.
- Release and promote policy.
- Assess the need for policy development and/or review
- Identify internal and external factors, issues, events, directions or government and/or board policies likely to cause changes to organisation policy.
- Identify the likely implications and impact of factors on policy development in consultation with stakeholders.
- Conduct a critical analysis of the need for new or revised policy including a scan of the wider internal and external environment.
- Recommend priority areas for policy development and/or review.
- Detail confirmation of the need for policy development and/or review with supporting evidence.
- Plan the policy development process
- Gather and analyse information for policy development
- Identify and engage with stakeholders through the establishment and maintenance of a representative and relevant policy network.
- Identify, gather, analyse and interpret information required to support the policy development process.
- Determine and apply an analytical framework for the development of the policy.
- Determine policy direction
- Develop a range of policy options and criteria for choice and communicate them to those responsible for selecting the policy direction.
- Promote specific policy options to executives within the organisation.
- Recommend preferred policy option.
- Determine risk treatments in accordance with the policy development plan.
- Obtain approvals.
- Draft policy
- Implement a cyclical process of consultation, feedback, identification of changes and re drafting.
- Implement risk management processes in accordance with the policy development plan to ensure progress against the timeframe and milestones.
- Add an implementation plan in the policy that details responsibilities for implementation and strategies for transition, change management, initial and ongoing training and maintenance of the policy.
- Add mechanisms within the policy for monitoring compliance, quality assurance, and evaluation of the policy.
- Finalise development of policy
- Clear policy through organisational channels, and gain agreement of critical stakeholders.
- Ensure all stakeholders, particularly those who will be responsible for implementing the new or revised policy, are informed of the outcomes, and manage fallout from dissenting stakeholders.
- Release and promote policy.