Application

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to identify and implement ways of promoting innovation within team environments in the workplace.
The unit applies to individuals who are team participants or team leaders responsible for playing a proactive role in demonstrating innovation in a formal or informal team environment.
No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

What You'll Learn

Assessment Requirements

Performance Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate the ability to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including evidence of the ability to:
• on at least two occasions assist a team to create an innovative team environment.
In the course of the above, the candidate must:
• encourage others to contribute to innovation
• identify ways of working
• implement and communicate improvements
• plan and schedule activities
• reflect on activities, feedback and challenges to identity improvement options
• model open and respectful communications
• contribute to the make-up and rules of the team.

Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must be able to demonstrate knowledge to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including knowledge of:
• types of innovation and their benefits
• ways of working, including:
• working hours
• working spaces
• agile working
• workplace policies and procedures
• internal and external factors that contribute to a team becoming and remaining innovative, including:
• team characteristics
• role of group dynamics and diversity
• broader environmental factors
• activities that can encourage and hinder innovation in a team, including:
• allocation of time and activities
• modelling behaviour
• rewards and recognition
• communications
• feedback.

Assessment Conditions

Skills in this unit must be demonstrated in a workplace or simulated environment where the conditions are typical of those in a working environment in this industry.
This includes access to:
• workplace equipment and resources relevant to performance evidence.
Assessors of this unit must satisfy the requirements for assessors in applicable vocational education and training legislation, frameworks and/or standards.

Foundation Skills

• {'skill': 'Reading', 'description': 'Interprets and analyses textual information, from a wide range of sources, to identify information relevant to team activities'}
• {'skill': 'Writing', 'description': 'Uses clear language and formats appropriate for the audience to highlight and present specific information'}
• {'skill': 'Oral communication', 'description': 'Actively participates in verbal exchanges of ideas and elicits the views and opinions of team members by listening and questioning; Uses clear language to clarify rules and roles relating to team activities in formal and informal situations'}
• {'skill': 'Numeracy', 'description': 'Interprets numeric information relevant to team activities'}
• {'skill': 'Planning and organising', 'description': 'Selects the appropriate form, channel and mode of communication for a specific purpose relevant to own role'}
• {'skill': 'Teamwork', 'description': 'Uses inclusive techniques to initiate, contribute and promote discussion amongst potentially diverse team members; Recognises the importance of establishing and building effective working relationships'}
• {'skill': 'Planning and organising', 'description': 'Plans, sequences and prioritises tasks for efficient and effective outcomes'}
• {'skill': 'Problem solving', 'description': 'Uses problem-solving processes to address less predictable problems, and when appropriate, seeking input from others; Contributes to continuous improvement of current work practices by applying basic principles of analytical and lateral thinking; Reflects on outcomes and further explores own and the team’s role in implementing innovation'}
• {'skill': 'Initiative and enterprise', 'description': 'Understands the nature and purpose of own role and how it affects others in the work context'}

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