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Budget Negotiations and Communication Scoring Guide

CRITERIA NON-PERFORMANCE BASIC PROFICIENT DISTINGUISHED

Outline a strategic plan that ensures profitability and fiscal success.

Does not outline a strategic plan that ensures profitability and fiscal success.

The outline is not compelling, not strategic, omits key elements or responsibilities, or fails to include data or case studies to support the plan.

Outlines a strategic plan that ensures profitability and fiscal success.

Outlines a strategic plan that ensures profitability and fiscal success, and identifies knowledge gaps, unknowns, missing information, unanswered questions, or areas of uncertainty.

Present a plan to meet staff productivity goals, while staying within budget parameters.

Does not present a plan to meet staff productivity goals, while staying within budget parameters.

Attempts to present a plan, but omits major factors affecting staffing and productivity, does not connect proposed staffing levels to the attainment of organizational goals, or omits staffing metrics or case studies that support the plan.

Presents a plan to meet staff productivity goals, while staying within budget parameters.

Presents a plan to meet staff productivity goals, while staying within budget parameters, including rationale for rejecting alternative approaches.

Justify equipment and service costs.

Does not justify equipment and service costs.

Attempts to justify equipment and service costs, but fails to explain contribution to organizational goals, cost calculations, or use of available resources.

Justifies equipment and service costs.

Justifies equipment and service costs, and identifies assumptions on which the projected costs are based.

Analyze department, unit, or project alignment with an organization's mission and goals.

Does not connect department, unit, or project alignment with an organization's mission and goals.

Attempts to connect department, unit, or project alignment with an organization's mission and goals, but fails to communicate linkages clearly, or fails to provide evidence to support linkages.

Analyzes department, unit, or project alignment with an organization's mission and goals.

Provides a persuasive analysis linking the department, unit, or project with an organization's mission and goals.

Write clearly and concisely, using correct grammar and mechanics.

Does not write clearly and concisely, using correct grammar and mechanics.

Writing is not consistently clear or concise, or errors in grammar and mechanics inhibit effective communication.

Writes clearly and concisely, using correct grammar and mechanics.

Writes clearly and concisely. Grammar and mechanics are error-free.

Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support your assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.

Does not integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.

Sources lack relevance or credibility, are poorly integrated, or are incorrectly formatted.

Integrates relevant and credible sources of evidence to support your assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.

Integrates relevant, credible, and convincing sources of evidence to support assertions. Sources are current, and citations and references are error- free.