Making Effective Decisions means Use evidence and knowledge to support accurate, expert decisions and advice. Carefully consider alternative options, implications and risks of decisions.
Show how you clarified the decision, involved the right people, compared options and risks, then made a clear recommendation even where the choice was contested.
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What are the Making Effective Decisions criteria at Grade 7?
- “Clarify your own understanding and stakeholder needs and expectations, before making decisions.”
- “Ensure decision making happens at the right level, not allowing unnecessary bureaucracy to hinder delivery.”
- “Encourage both innovative suggestions and challenge from others, to inform decision making.”
- “Analyse and accurately interpret data from various sources to support decisions.”
- “Find the best option by identifying positives, negatives, risks and implications.”
- “Present reasonable conclusions from a wide range of complex and sometimes incomplete evidence.”
- “Make decisions confidently even when details are unclear or if they prove to be unpopular.”
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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