Study Visits & Experiential Learning
Try a learning journey before you plan one.
Five short stages show how a study visit moves from a learning question to an action plan. Everything here is illustrative: it does not describe a confirmed itinerary, host or site visit.
Five stages
From a question to a plan.
01
Choosea learning question
Pick the question your organisation most needs to answer.
02
Frameand prepare
Decide what you would want to ask the people you meet.
03
Explorethe scenario
Look closely at an illustrative scenario and its evidence.
04
Makea decision
Choose a course of action and see what follows from it.
05
Reflectand apply
Turn what you learned into owners, priorities and next steps.
Your turn
Walk through it yourself.
Stage 1 of 5: Choose a learning question · Public service

Illustrative scenario
Illustrative scenario for learning purposes. It does not describe a real organisation, host, visit or result.
Stage 1 of 5
Choose a learning question
Learning question
How can a public service become simpler, faster and more reliable for the people who use it?
The scenario
A team responsible for a busy citizen service is reviewing why applications take longer than expected and why people contact the service repeatedly before a decision.
What you will produce
Service improvement opportunity map


