Strategy and Policy Evaluation Training Course

Name: Advanced Strategy and Policy Evaluation Training Course
Availability: InStock

Evaluate strategic context, policy logic, implementation evidence, performance results, and corrective decisions.

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Duration: 1 Week
Format: Classroom
Cities: Johannesburg, Istanbul, Amsterdam, Lagos, London, Zanzibar and more
Next session: 25 – 29 October 2026, Johannesburg
Average fee: 5,750 €

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Advanced Strategy and Policy Evaluation Training Course

Overview

Advanced Strategy and Policy Evaluation Training Course is a one-week course for strategy managers, business-unit leaders, policy owners, planning professionals, and performance managers who need an Integrated Strategy Evaluation Pack. Participants evaluate strategic context, objectives, policy logic, implementation controls, indicators, results, and improvement decisions. The course addresses disconnected reviews and weak evidence through structured criteria, traceability maps, scorecards, and decision records. Agile Leaders Training Center develops strategy and policy evaluation practice.

Who Should Attend

Teams responsible for strategic planning and portfolio direction
Teams responsible for policy design, review, and coordination
Teams responsible for business-unit implementation and results
Teams responsible for performance measurement and evaluation
Teams responsible for governance reviews and improvement actions

The course assumes participants already contribute to strategic plans, policies, or performance reviews; it leaves out political advocacy, regulatory drafting, certification preparation, and statistical impact evaluation.

Departments and Industries

The course supports departments and industries that design, implement, evaluate, and improve strategies or policies.

Strategy, policy, performance, governance, and transformation departments
Manufacturing, energy, logistics, and infrastructure organizations
Technology, telecommunications, and professional-service organizations
Healthcare, education, and community-service institutions
Corporate offices, public-service bodies, and development organizations

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Analyze strategic context and stakeholder evidence
Build objective, policy, and implementation traceability maps
Apply evaluation criteria to plans and policies
Evaluate indicators, results, risks, and implementation gaps
Prioritize corrective actions and review decisions
Create an integrated strategy evaluation pack

Course Agenda

Day 1: Strategic Context and Evaluation Scope

Stakeholder Requirement and Evidence Map
SWOT Internal and External Factor Matrix
PESTEL Environmental Signal Register
Strategic Issue and Assumption Log
Evaluation Scope and Question Framework

Day 2: Objectives, Policies, and Logic

Strategic Objective Quality and Alignment Grid
Strategy Map and Cause-Effect Chain
Policy Logic and Intended-Result Model
Initiative, Process, and Ownership Matrix
Objective-to-Policy Traceability Table

Day 3: Implementation and Performance Evidence

Implementation Milestone and Dependency Roadmap
KPI Definition and Data-Quality Card
Balanced Scorecard Perspective Review
Risk, Control, and Mitigation Register
Plan-Do-Check-Act Review Cycle

Day 4: Evaluation and Improvement Decisions

OECD Evaluation Criteria Question Matrix
Target, Actual, and Trend Gap Analysis
Contribution Evidence and Alternative Explanation Grid
Finding, Conclusion, and Recommendation Chain
Corrective Action Priority and Decision Log

Day 5: Integrated Evaluation Practice

Exercise: Diagnose Strategic Context and Assumptions
Exercise: Trace Objectives, Policies, and Initiatives
Exercise: Test Indicators and Implementation Evidence
Exercise: Form Evaluation Findings and Decisions
Capstone Exercise: Integrated Strategy Evaluation Pack

Practical Exercises

The course uses suggested activities that connect evaluation evidence with decisions in industrial and service settings.

Suggested activity: compare stakeholder evidence and environmental signals for an infrastructure strategy
Suggested activity: test a healthcare policy logic chain against objectives, initiatives, and indicators
Suggested activity: diagnose implementation gaps using milestones, risks, controls, and trend evidence
Suggested activity: present evaluation findings with prioritized corrective actions and accountable owners

FAQs

Who suits advanced strategy and policy evaluation training?

Strategy managers, business-unit leaders, policy owners, planning professionals, and performance managers suit the training. Participants should already contribute to plans, policies, implementation, or reviews.

How does strategy and policy evaluation differ from strategic planning training?

Strategy and policy evaluation tests logic, implementation, evidence, results, and improvement decisions, while strategic planning training usually concentrates on direction, objectives, choices, and plan formulation.

Which criteria support strategy and policy evaluation?

Relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability support structured evaluation questions when applied thoughtfully with organizational evidence and the evaluation purpose.

How are strategic implementation gaps evaluated?

Strategic implementation gaps are evaluated by comparing objectives, milestones, ownership, resources, risks, controls, indicators, actual results, and documented assumptions, then tracing causes and accountable responses.

How should evaluation findings become management action?

Evaluation findings become management action when conclusions are evidence-linked, recommendations are feasible, priorities are explicit, owners and due points are assigned, and follow-up decisions are recorded.

Conclusion

Participants take back an Integrated Strategy Evaluation Pack containing context evidence, traceability maps, indicator cards, evaluation matrices, findings, and corrective actions. The pack makes reviews consistent and decisions traceable to evidence. It also helps strategy, policy, performance, and business teams agree on priorities, ownership, and improvement follow-up.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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Location	Dates	Duration	Mode	Price
Vienna	Week 34, 2027 23 – 27 August 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Kuala Lumpur	Week 35, 2027 30 August – 3 September 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,200
Amsterdam	Week 35, 2027 30 August – 3 September 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Sharm El-Sheikh	Week 36, 2027 6 – 10 September 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,100
Abu Dhabi	Week 36, 2027 6 – 10 September 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,700
Trabzon	Week 36, 2027 12 – 16 September 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,800
Cairo	Week 37, 2027 13 – 17 September 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,100
Porto	Week 38, 2027 20 – 24 September 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Rome	Week 39, 2027 27 September – 1 October 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Frankfurt	Week 39, 2027 27 September – 1 October 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
New York	Week 40, 2027 4 – 8 October 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€12,000
Cape town	Week 40, 2027 10 – 14 October 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,500
Athens	Week 42, 2027 18 – 22 October 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,700
Geneva	Week 42, 2027 24 – 28 October 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,200
Zoom	Week 43, 2027 25 – 29 October 2027	1 Week	Online	€1,500

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What does this course cover?

OverviewAdvanced Strategy and Policy Evaluation Training Course is a one-week course for strategy managers, business-unit leaders, policy owners, planning professionals, and performance managers who need an Integrated Strategy Evaluation Pack. Participants evaluate strategic context, objectives, policy logic, implementation controls, indicators, results,…

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Strategy and Policy Evaluation Training Course