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expected. Once a group of tasks has been sequenced, review it from beginning to end

(left to right) to ensure final agreement before going on to the next duty area.

Once the group has sequenced all of the task statements, the facilitator should ask the

team to study all duty areas. The objective now is to organize the entire analysis as it will

appear on the printed task list. Two factors should be considered at this point.

First, sequence the duty areas logically (i.e., chronologically or hierarchically).

Second, the facilitator should suggest the vertical shifting of one or more duties

adjacent to an area that has similar tasks or that logically follows the previous band. It

should be noted, however, as with the task statements, that the top-to-bottom sequencing

of the duty areas usually is partly an arbitrary one.

The facilitator should now be ready to obtain final agreement on whether the task list

is a reasonably accurate and comprehensive description of the job. Normally, the members

will quickly agree that the chart is complete, especially if the process has been followed,

and will want to know how soon they can show a copy to their supervisor(s) and

colleagues.

4.3.6 Select Tasks for Training (Step 6). During this step the facilitator will help the

team members to sort each task into categories of "no train," "pre-train," "train," or

"overtrain" tasks. The facilitator should inform the team that some training can be

effectively completed with non-formal training; these will be the "no-train" tasks. Other

tasks will require documented training and evaluation in a formal training program ("train"

and "overtrain"), while still others require formal training and evaluation "pre-train" just

prior to task performance (for example, a task completed only every three years).

The team will apply criteria to determine the designation of each task.

High frequency of performance