CollectiveSpendPSSA

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Understanding your results

What the levels mean, how gaps work, and how to use your development plan.

The levels

Every dimension is scored on four levels: Below Supporting (0), Supporting (1), Enabling (2) and Shaping (3). Levels are cumulative. You reach a level only when you demonstrate it consistently across the scenarios, so a single strong answer does not carry a dimension.

Gaps and strengths

Your result on each dimension is compared with what your role expects. A positive gap means the role expects more than you demonstrated: those are your development priorities, ordered by size. Meeting the role is exactly that: you are where the role needs you to be. Exceeding the role is reported as a strength, never penalised.

Professional and Behavioural Skills (Dimension 2) is scored across nine sub-skills and shown in detail on your results page, so you can see which behaviours carry you and which hold you back.

The development plan

For each priority, the plan shows the exact behaviours of your next level (straight from the competency framework), recommended actions you can start this quarter, and the CollectiveSpend pathway that supports it. Work from the top: the first item is your biggest gap against your role.

The PDF report contains everything on the page and is yours to keep or share. If others have rated you, the report also shows self versus observed: differences are conversation starters, not verdicts.