{"slug":"make-progression-or-talent-decision","name":"Make a Progression or Talent Decision","family":"Performance and Development System","version":"0.1.0","status":"draft","note":"draft reference — not a fitted standard","summary":"Make an evidence-based decision about expanded scope, progression, readiness, succession consideration, lateral movement, or continued development against real work and explicit authority.","purpose":"Match demonstrated capability and aspiration to an authorized organizational need without turning performance ratings, tenure, visibility, potential labels, or manager advocacy into automatic entitlement.","steps":[{"sequence":1,"name":"Frame the decision and authority","purpose":"Define exactly what is being decided and what remains outside this process."},{"sequence":2,"name":"Define the target work and evidence standard","purpose":"Assess against actual future work rather than a title, person prototype, or vague potential."},{"sequence":3,"name":"Assemble permitted evidence and aspiration","purpose":"Create a complete decision record without importing irrelevant history or private information."},{"sequence":4,"name":"Assess readiness and transition risk","purpose":"Judge the evidence against target work while preserving uncertainty and development possibilities."},{"sequence":5,"name":"Calibrate candidates and options","purpose":"Test consistency and organizational effects without reducing people to a grid."},{"sequence":6,"name":"Decide and authorize the talent outcome","purpose":"Make one explicit decision while preserving downstream authorities."},{"sequence":7,"name":"Communicate, route, and review","purpose":"Turn the decision into a clear next state without informal promises or silent shelving."}],"connections":[{"direction":"upstream","processName":"Review Performance and Contribution","processSlug":"review-performance-and-contribution","trigger":"A separate talent decision is authorized."},{"direction":"upstream","processName":"Build and Operate a Development Plan","processSlug":"build-and-operate-development-plan","trigger":"A development disposition is relevant to an authorized talent decision."},{"direction":"upstream","processName":"Define Role and Success Profile","processSlug":"define-role-success-profile","trigger":"Target work is defined or revised."},{"direction":"downstream","processName":"Align Role Outcomes and Expectations","processSlug":"align-role-outcomes","trigger":"The role or assignment implementation becomes effective."},{"direction":"downstream","processName":"Build and Operate a Development Plan","processSlug":"build-and-operate-development-plan","trigger":"The decision authorizes continued or target-specific development."}],"plannedConnections":[],"measures":[{"name":"Talent decision operating fit","definition":"Structured review of transition, role outcomes, capability use, support, retention, and changed conditions; not causal attribution to the decision alone.","cadence":"At defined post-decision review"},{"name":"Talent decision evidence completeness","definition":"Decisions satisfying required evidence and control fields divided by all completed decisions.","cadence":"At approval"},{"name":"Talent decision cycle time","definition":"Elapsed time from charter admission to acknowledged decision, separated by evidence, calibration, approval, and communication waits.","cadence":"Monthly or during review cycle"},{"name":"Controlled talent-decision method use","definition":"Completed decisions conforming to the active method divided by all completed decisions.","cadence":"Per cycle"},{"name":"Talent decision exception pattern","definition":"Exceptions by type, decision path, target, owner, severity, cause, and disposition.","cadence":"Per cycle and quarterly"},{"name":"Opportunity access, fairness, dignity, privacy, and promise guardrail","definition":"Qualified review of candidate pools, evidence, opportunity history, decisions, communications, responses, and outcomes; not a causal or legal conclusion.","cadence":"Per cycle and at material signal"}]}