Delivering at Pace means Take responsibility for delivering timely and quality results with focus and drive.
Show how you set standards, matched resources to priorities, adjusted expectations using evidence and maintained performance under challenging conditions.
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What are the Delivering at Pace criteria at Grade 7?
- “Ensure everyone clearly understands and owns their roles, responsibilities and business priorities.”
- “Give honest, motivating and enthusiastic messages about priorities, objectives and expectations to get the best out of people.”
- “Comply with legal, regulatory and security requirements in service delivery.”
- “Set out clear processes and standards for managing performance at all levels.”
- “Ensure delivery of timely quality outcomes, through providing the right resources to do the job, reviewing and adjusting performance expectations and rewarding success.”
- “Maintain own levels of performance in challenging circumstances and encourage others to do the same.”
How to structure your statement
Set the strategic or delivery context quickly.
State your responsibility and the decision or outcome you owned.
Explain evidence, options, challenge, influence, risk and what you personally did.
Show the wider outcome, assurance, service value or learning.
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