1. Critically review the above steps for devising a policy. Using relevant theories and models, determine whether you would add or remove steps from the above process. Justify your response. Adapt the process, if necessary

2. Suggest how you might avoid the failure factors in future.

3. Based on the outcome of your comparison, redesign the policy development process so that it meets the needs of your organisation. Should your process not require any changes, provide a clearly articulated argument as to why

4. Explain the key drivers between the various triggers.

5. Based on the policy examples you choose in the previous task, critically assess one value and one aspiration that informs the choices of decision makers.

6. Critically assess the difference between a project and programme in your organisation.

7. Create the current structure of the both the project and programme then critically compare and analysis the functions in the structure

8. What conclusions can you draw?

9. Critically assess the role and quality of leadership in your organisation.

10. Examine what leadership does well and does not do well.

11. Apply the integrated leadership model to your organisation and discuss the impact this could ultimately have on your policy development process

12. Critically assess how your organisation seeks structural advice.

13. Assess which of the four options your organisation uses and examine the possibility of incorporating the rest

14. Apply the stakeholder analysis tool to a policy from your work environment. 15. Identify all stakeholders of your chosen policy and prioritise them

16. Critically examine the positive and negative needs and interests.

17. Devise a participation tactic that will lead to constructive involvement.

18. Predict the outcome.

19. Based on the policy you used for your stakeholder analysis, identify all main supportive and resistant forces in your policy process.

20. Prioritise and plot them on the force-field diagram

21. Devise tactics to minimise resistant forces and to maximise supportive forces.

22. Based on a policy you chose for a previous task, identify the strengths and weaknesses of the policy document

23. Critically assess the structure of the document and suggest ways to improve it.

24. Plan to improve the policy.

25. Determine your organisations preferred forecasting technique.

26. Assess alternative forecasting techniques that could work well for your organisation.