RAPID® framework helps clarify decision roles
Description of role
Recommend
Agree
Perform
• Primary responsibility for making a proposal (80% of work happens here)
- Gather and assess the relevant facts
- Obtain input from relevant parties
- Drive robust analysis and conclusions
• Formal approval of a recommendation
• Like an Input “with teeth” - must be factored in
• Accountable for executing the decision, once it is made
• Consulted on the decision
Input
Decide
• Provide valuable expertise, experience, information
• No obligation for decision maker to act on advice
• Make the final decision – “Commit the organization to action”
• Only one D
Agree
Input
Input
Recommend
Decide
Perform
Input
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Pre-work: Choose a decision. Map out what the decision
roles are NOW and what you think they SHOULD be…
Decision
Input
EXAMPLE: Who decides on
the expectations for a new
role (and whether it is
needed)?
Agree
Recommend
Decide
HR Director
Person in need
of new hire
Executive
Director
Perform
1) Map current/historic roles in this row
2) Map ideal roles in this row
Remember: Not all of these roles are required for all decisions (e.g., A is often not relevant); and in some cases,
the same individual may play multiple roles (e.g., R and P might be the same individual)
PLEASE BRING THIS COMPLETED HANDOUT TO YOUR LFI CLASS SESSION
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