PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS

MAKING DECISIONS

The emerging, competent, releasing, and transforming standards build on each other, helping to visualise what our next development steps might be

Decision making

With awareness and confidence

Emerging:

I seek advice to make informed decisions and reflect on outcomes. I recognise my personal agendas and how this affects my decision- making.

Competent:

I demonstrate decision making that balances opportunity, risk, reviewing and learning in alignment with Salvation Army values.

Releasing:

I create an environment that enables others to make decisions with confidence and without fear of failure, encouraging a systematic approach to assess competing views and priorities.

Transforming:

I model courage to make difficult and ethical decisions in ambiguous and unpredictable contexts.

Knowing my role

Being responsible and being accountable to the mission priorities

Emerging:

I know the mission priorities of The Salvation Army and recognise that I have a responsibility to make choices in line with these.

Competent:

I demonstrate the responsibility and accountability my role requires in support of Salvation Army mission. I know the boundaries of my authority and step up to take it.

Releasing:

I model a maturity in my role that promotes confidence in others, supporting clarification of their own responsibilities.

Transforming:

I shape a culture of mutual accountability and responsibility in fulfilling our mission.

Developing listening practices

To enhance our understanding and ability to listen, informing decision making, in line with God’s leading

Emerging:

I recognise the need to listen to the views of others. I engage with decision making as part of a group. I seek to discern the Holy Spirit’s leading.

Competent:

I listen to understand, asking questions for clarification, using tools such as Faith- Based Facilitation personally and with groups, leading to more effective analysis, creative decisions, and positive outcomes.

Releasing:

I support others to develop discernment practices and discernment communities, investing in deeper relationships of unity and trust, towards decisions of greater wisdom, effectiveness, and faithfulness.

Transforming:

I promote a listening culture, championing forums to hear diverse perspectives, drawing together opposites, learning from dissonance, initiating new direction from creative tension.