Continuous Learning (Practising)

70% on-the-job learning

• Offer to peer review work and reflect constructively on improvements or different approaches.
• Take on diverse tasks and get immediate feedback on your learning and performance.
• Regularly review your team’s approaches to policy development, what worked and could be done differently.
• Provide timely and constructive encouragement to other team members.
• Reflect on your performance feedback and how best to use your strengths and be more effective.
• Contribute to policy training in your organisation or across the Public Service.
• Consider rotating into other parts of the organisation where you can work on different issues or policy areas.
• Seek out specific training and opportunities to coach less experienced colleagues or to enter into formal mentoring agreements.
• Consider what new knowledge you need that can be provided internally.
• Be open to new ideas and thinking.
• Use the Māori Crown Relations Capability Framework to make an assessment  and create an action plan to develop your capability.
• Use the Development Pathways Tool to help mentor less experienced staff on ways to develop their range of policy skills.

20% learning from others

• Seek mentoring from an experienced colleague who has institutional knowledge.
• Consider starting a learning group in new or emerging policy techniques, or analysing a case study.

10% formal learning

• Take a course on how to coach or mentor others (e.g. 'Side by Side' by Hartwick Associates).