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Advising and Briefing

Understand the role that civil servants play in advising and briefing ministers and senior officials.
Generate information and policy options while taking into account considerations such as audience, purpose and desired outcomes.
Sift and present information in a way that helps your audience make informed and balanced decisions.

Overview

Cross Civil Service

Knowing how best to communicate with busy ministers and senior officials is a vitally important skill in government. It’s a civil servant’s job to provide the most relevant, pertinent information that helps these people to better understand a particular topic. Doing this effectively demands a strong understanding of who you’re providing information to, why you’re advising or briefing them and how you can best do this.

This course is aimed at civil servants of all grades whose work involves briefing people in a way that enables effective decision-making and helps them to shape and deliver policy. It’s been designed to help you advise and brief effectively and to the expected standard.

Please refer to the course flyer for a full description of the learning.