The passage of a new policy is not purely the ‘win’ point of the culmination of potentially years of advocacy and communications, but it is also the starting point of the equally important phase of work to translate that policy into meaningful changes. One of the significant challenges to policy implementation is that it involves multiple players and systems. How can they best approach implementation? What needs to be considered? After discussing the dimensions and elements of policy implementation process, this paper looks at the newly adopted Vietnam English Teacher Competency Framework and proposes some considerations, drawing on international experiences, for different stakeholders engaged in implementing the policy.