Deciding
How to decide
Nine questions on one page, written before the decision rather than after it.
The Questions Before the Legal Question
A page, written before anything is bought, that answers the assessment several jurisdictions require and the questions none of them do.
Who Should Be in the Room
Monitoring decisions are taken by the people who want the capability and cleared by the people who assess risk. Nobody present represents the person affected.
Asking the People Affected
Consultation that produces information rather than a record of having consulted. The difference is in what is still changeable when the question is asked.
Stating the Purpose Narrowly
A broad purpose justifies everything and therefore nothing. Narrowing it is the single most consequential drafting decision in the whole arrangement.
Setting an End, Not Just a Start
Monitoring arrangements have commencement dates and almost never have conclusions. The asymmetry is why organisations accumulate measures nobody would choose today.
What You Would Say If Asked Publicly
A test that takes thirty seconds and catches most of what the formal assessments miss.
Reviewing a Decision You Already Made
Most organisations are not deciding whether to monitor. They are living with arrangements inherited from people who have left, and the review is a different exercise.
When the Answer Is Not to Do It
Declining is a legitimate outcome and it is almost never recorded as one, because no process has a place for it.