Select Committee training

An appearance before a House of Commons Select Committee can be one of the most testing events of a senior executive’s career. Get it right, and an executive can enhance their own personal reputation, raise the profile of their organisation and give national policy a useful nudge in the right direction. Get it wrong, and the consequences can be devastating.

Regester Larkin’s select committee training programme provides executives with the support, skills and knowledge they need to “get it right”.

Our sessions are in three parts. After an introduction about select committees and how they work, our sessions begin by concentrating on getting right the substance of what an organisation wants to say. What message does it want the MPs to take away from the session? How should the argument be put and what evidence should be used to back up the organisation’s position? What traps need to be avoided?

The second part of the session looks at some important committee Do’s and Don’ts and some basic performance techniques.

Finally, the main emphasis of our training is providing executives with a thorough dress rehearsal for their evidence session. We use a room set up in the same style of a select committee and provide executives with a complete run through of what they are likely to experience.

 

Key Information
Select Committee Training

Learning Objective:
to develop robust and credible messages when facing select committee hearings

Appropriate for:
senior executives/public affairs and communication personnel

Duration:
full day or day and a half

Participants:
up to 10 people

Venue:
your premises or Regester Larkin's training centre in central London