Supervisor-Skills-Reference-Guide

Writing clear meaningful task statements is easy when
you use two basic task statement elements.
1. Performs What Action?
2. To produce or accomplish what?
Task Statement
Element:
Performs What
Action?
To produce or
accomplish
what?
Example:
Develops,
Formulates,
writes
In order to obtain
private agency
funding.
Section 11:
The justification for the FJA-1 must be completed for all
actions, i.e., classification of new positions,
reclassification of existing positions, requests for
reevaluation of a classification or position update only.
List all the responsibilities which have been added to the
position (new responsibilities since the last review) and
may affect its present classification, and describe the
reason for assigning the new responsibilities to this
position.
The Administrative Report of Work Content (Form FJA-1)
is an invaluable administrative report which has many
uses. When properly completed, the report can for the
basis for many personnel decisions both within and
outside the operating agency.
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Action Verbs (tips for writing task statements)
Some action verbs express physical action like “write” a
proposal or “develop” a course. Other verbs describe a
mental activity like “solve” a problem or “identify” multiple
solutions. Avoid ambiguous, fuzzy verbs like “to know”,
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