Policy group feedback
Feeding back on a draft policy
Workshop
A workshop for small team feedback on a draft policy, with facilitation prompts to focus on the parts of the policy the team feel need the most work or there are more divergent opinions around.
Context
You’ve done a draft of a new policy and want your overstretched team to help you see what’s still missing or might be improved. You want to help them make their feedback as specific as possible and you want to use what limited time you have together to get into the parts of the policy that there is least agreement on, in order to try and reach consensus together. By then end, you should have a clear list of agreed amendments, reflecting the changes that the team had decided upon, which can be integrated and then double-checked with everyone to ensure they reflect the discussion.
Plan
Time needed: ~3hrs (though this will always vary depending on how close to agreement the group is at the start and if the team has been involved in previous thinking about the policy, or not.
Materials
Prep requirements
- A draft policy, circulated with the team with significant lead time
- Advance feedback from the full team (in the feedback template)
- A facilitator who has assessed the feedback from the team, to focus conversations around particular sections of the draft policy where there are questions or disagreements.