Come up with a policy position that you would like to take. This might be a policy that you want your school or community to adopt. It might also be a policy for your personal life, or one that you want your family to adopt. What matters are the steps. Guidelines Review the steps in the policymaking process. Come up with a policy position that you would like to take. Explain your policy problem and the policy approach that you propose to fix your problem. Evaluate a classmate's policy problem and suggest an alternate policy solution that might also solve their problem. If you are in the class by yourself, your teacher will propose a policy solution that you can critique.