A Grade 6 Working Together statement should show how you build productive relationships across boundaries and create the conditions for people with different perspectives to work towards the same outcome.
The best examples go further than saying you held meetings or kept stakeholders informed. At Grade 6, the assessor should be able to see how you built trust, challenged assumptions and kept collaboration effective when priorities conflicted.
Need more Grade 6 Working Together examples?
The dedicated guide contains worked 250 word statements for Grade 6 and Grade 7 applications.
What Working Together means at Grade 6
🌐 Build networks: create and maintain relationships that help shared objectives move forward.
💬 Challenge constructively: question assumptions while being willing to compromise when that helps progress.
🤝 Build trust: develop strong working relationships and show genuine care for colleagues.
🧠 Use different experiences: understand what people bring to the team and make use of that knowledge.
🌱 Support wellbeing: pay attention to workload and how pressure is affecting people.
🗣️ Create an inclusive environment: make room for challenge and new ideas while maintaining respectful standards.
How to use the word count
A Grade 6 example needs enough complexity to show real collaboration. Use a situation where different teams, professions or organisations had separate priorities and where your actions helped create alignment.
💭 Belief: give a short principle about collaboration.
📍 Situation and task: explain the shared objective and the tension between groups.
🛠️ Action: show how you built relationships, created space for challenge and resolved differences.
📈 Result: explain what the collaboration achieved and whether the relationships remained useful afterwards.
Grade 6 Working Together 250 word statement example
I believe collaboration works best when people understand the shared outcome and feel able to challenge the route taken to get there.
As programme lead for a cross-department service change, I needed policy, operations and digital teams to agree a single implementation plan. Policy colleagues were focused on meeting a fixed commitment, while operations were concerned that the proposed timetable created service risk.
I met each lead separately first to understand their constraints and where they had flexibility. I then set up a joint working group with a clear decision log and asked each team to identify the risks they needed the others to understand.
When discussion became fixed around competing dates, I challenged the assumption that every part of the change needed to launch together. Operations proposed a phased approach, which I asked digital colleagues to test against system dependencies. I made sure quieter specialists had space to comment before decisions were closed.
I also monitored workload because the same operational team was managing a separate peak-demand period. I adjusted the workshop timetable and reduced duplicate reporting so they could contribute without adding avoidable pressure.
We agreed a phased implementation that met the core commitment and protected the live service. The working group continued into delivery, which meant later issues were resolved quickly because the relationships and decision routes were already established.
What makes this Grade 6 evidence
✅ Collaboration happens across professional boundaries with conflicting priorities.
✅ The candidate builds relationships before trying to force agreement.
✅ Challenge changes the proposed delivery model.
✅ Inclusion and workload are treated as part of effective collaboration.
✅ The relationship continues beyond the immediate decision.
Common weaknesses
❌ Describing routine teamwork where everybody already agreed.
❌ Making the answer mainly about meetings rather than influence and relationships.
❌ Presenting compromise as giving everybody what they wanted.
❌ Ignoring wellbeing or the practical pressures placed on collaborators.
Compare all nine Grade 6/7 behaviours
For spoken examples, use our Grade 6 Working Together interview questions and answers.
Choosing a Grade 6 Working Together example
Pick an example where you could not achieve the outcome through your own team alone. Cross-functional or cross-organisational work gives you more room to show the relationship-building expected at this level.
🏛️ A programme involving several departments or delivery partners.
⚖️ A disagreement where teams had legitimate but competing priorities.
🌐 A piece of work where you had to build a network before progress was possible.
🗣️ A situation where quieter or specialist voices changed the final plan.
🌱 A period of sustained pressure where you adjusted collaboration to protect team wellbeing.
Quick check before submitting
✅ Have you shown how the relationship was built rather than saying stakeholders were engaged?
✅ Is there evidence of challenge or disagreement?
✅ Did you compromise where it helped the shared objective?
✅ Have you shown how different needs or experiences were used?
✅ Does the result depend on collaboration rather than your individual delivery?
