Leadership means Show pride and passion for public service. Create and engage others in delivering a shared vision. Value difference, diversity and inclusion, ensuring fairness and opportunity for all.
Use an example involving inclusion, conflicting pressure, motivation and accountability beyond your immediate team.
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What are the Leadership criteria at Grade 7?
- “Promote diversity, inclusion and equality of opportunity, respecting difference and external experience.”
- “Welcome and respond to views and challenges from others, despite any conflicting pressures to ignore or give in to them.”
- “Stand by, promote or defend own and team’s actions and decisions where needed.”
- “Seek out shared interests beyond own area of responsibility, understanding the extent of the impact actions have on the organisation.”
- “Inspire and motivate teams to be fully engaged in their work and dedicated to their role.”
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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