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The object is the work A review is not a stage on the continuum.
What you’ll be able to do Identify the practical implication of “The object is the work” and apply it to one live DHS decision connected to Performance and Development. Compare the responses to this question and explain your choice: What should happen before the work is locked? Document a next step for The object is the work: Choose one live work object, name a change or formal escalation, assign an owner, and set the date the result will be reviewed. If you diagnose a person’s orientation, you turned this program into a score. Forbidden. Minimization: same form for everyone, so coaching is fair. Polarization: ranking who gets equity. Adaptation: coach the process in front of you — a caseload, a packet, a delay.
Put this lesson to work What you can change You control whether the object is the work changes a live DHS process connected to Performance and Development or remains information on a page.
What to watch for The team completes the learning, keeps the same default, assigns no owner, and never checks who carries the burden.
Your next step Choose one live work object, name a change or formal escalation, assign an owner, and set the date the result will be reviewed.
Fictional working example
Give feedback someone can act on Compare two fictional feedback notes. One judges the person; the other names a piece of work and opens a conversation about what would improve it.
A label without usable evidence You are not ready to lead this work.
Examine this part The sentence does not identify an action, its effect or what support would help. It invites a judgment about the person rather than a discussion of the work.
A concrete observation and request The revised agenda arrived as the meeting began. Two participants asked for reading time. What would help us share the next version early enough for people to prepare?
Examine this part Check that these observations are accurate. Ask about the process and support, then agree on the next step without grading a person's identity or intercultural orientation.
Try it with the work Choose one feedback sentence you use. Can the other person identify the work, the observation and a possible next step?
Rewrite that sentence in the lesson notes and add a question that invites their account of what happened.
Carry this forward A review is not a stage on the continuum.
You control whether the object is the work changes a live DHS process connected to Performance and Development or remains information on a page.
Choose one live work object, name a change or formal escalation, assign an owner, and set the date the result will be reviewed.
Completion is shown by a scenario decision, a knowledge-check response and a saved one-minute commitment.
Choose one live work object, name a change or formal escalation, assign an owner, and set the date the result will be reviewed.
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Course overview Next lesson Participation and course completion in this program do not count toward DHS-required training credits unless management, a director, or DHS leadership expressly approves an exception.
