Options Development Workshop

Provider:

Training and Development Agency

Topics:

Targeted youth support

Type:

Information and guidance

Date:

September 2006

Typically between four and eight weeks after Fast Start, change teams should get together in an Options Development Workshop.

Before you hold this workshop, your change teams should have developed options in line with the options template introduced at the Fast Start. The progress of all change teams must be sufficient for a meaningful review to take place. In particular, change teams should be able to answer the following:

• The challenge this option is addressing. Providing an overall business case and strategic rationale
  
   
• A description of the work or service provided within this option plus redesigned service processes and organisation design where applicable
  
   
• Interfaces and interactions with other teams and services
  
   
• The rationale for this particular option
  
   
• What makes this different
  
   
• How it builds on current good practice
  
   
• Supporting evidence that it will work
  
   
• Risks
  
   
• Costs/benefits model
  
   
• How it would be implemented
  
   
• Measures to evaluate success

The Options Development Workshop comprises two key parts. The first enables change teams to share their progress and give and receive feedback on each other's options. This helps identify ways to improve the robustness and understanding of the options being developed. This ensures the work of each change team is coherent and complementary to the other change teams, and gives an opportunity to generate creative ideas to increase the quality of all the solutions.

The second part of the workshop helps teams to further develop and 'model' their options. This involves being able to answer all of the detailed how questions that the senior group is likely to pose at Decision Point 3.

Optionally, the workshop may test the emerging models against a young person's journey map to ensure that solutions respond to the needs of young people and that there is a focus on the desired outcomes.

Finally in the workshop, there is some time for change teams to plan and prioritise their next steps to Decision Point 3.

Click for further activities supporting the Develop stage of the targeted youth support change process, or for an overview of the Develop stage.

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Last updated on 28/04/2009