Application

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to collaborate to determine the values and/or principles required to achieve sustained improvements from implementation of competitive systems and practices and to embed them into organisational structures, systems and mechanisms.
This unit applies to middle or senior managers or similar roles who contribute to setting the direction of the organisation and who have significant influence, authority and responsibility in selecting and planning how to achieve long term goals.
The individual will contribute to analysis of the organisation’s competitive systems and practices approach to identify the underpinning values and collaborate to determine and plan for new or improved structures and/or systems and/or mechanisms that demonstrate and/or support those values.
Typically this will include changes in one or more of the organisational structure, management systems, planning and deployment mechanisms, decision making authorities, communication and collaboration protocols, data collection, financial priorities, metrics and performance indicators. This unit applies once the organisation has decided on its approach for implementing competitive systems and practices and has developed an understanding of the value stream and desired future state.
This unit applies to any organisation implementing competitive systems and practices.
No licensing or certification requirements exist at the time of publication. Relevant legislation, industry standards and codes of practice within Australia must be applied.

What You'll Learn

Assessment Requirements

Performance Evidence

There must be evidence the candidate has completed the tasks outlined in the elements and performance criteria of this unit, and demonstrated the ability to:
• identify at least 3 underpinning values that support the organisation’s competitive systems and practices approach
• oversee systemic changes to embed the 3 values within 2 of the following areas:
• organisational structure
• management systems
• financial priorities, metrics and KPIs
• performance management and/or people development
• internal communications and/or collaboration
• operational decision making and/or strategy deployment.

Knowledge Evidence

There must be evidence the candidate has knowledge of:
• underpinning values relevant to competitive systems and practices including at least 5 of:
• respect for people
• respect for process
• empowered teams and devolved decision making and/or strategy deployment
• transparency and culture of learning
• creation of value and customer perceived value
• rapid cycle or iterative development
• empirical development
• go and see and/or go to the source decision making
• types of organisational structures, systems and mechanisms that can support or prevent application of at least 5 of the values listed above
• leadership and management styles and/or techniques that support values relevant to competitive systems and practices techniques to facilitate agreement across levels and areas of the organisation
• types of structural, personal, cultural barriers that may affect participation in communications and competitive systems and practices
• techniques to address barriers and support engagement and participation
• organisation’s value stream, key roles in value creation and desired future state.

Assessment Conditions

Skills must have been demonstrated in the workplace or in a simulated environment that reflects workplace conditions and contingencies. The following conditions must be met for this unit:
• use of suitable facilities, equipment and resources, including:
• defined approach for implementation of competitive systems and practices
• modelling of industry operating conditions.
Assessors must satisfy the NVR/AQTF mandatory competency requirements for assessors.

Foundation Skills

• {'skill': 'Foundation Skills', 'description': 'This section describes those language, literacy,\xa0numeracy\xa0and employment skills that are essential to performance but not explicit in the performance criteria.\n• Reading skills to interpret complex workplace documents\n• Writing skills to document workplace requirements and information for stakeholders\n• Oral communication skills to\xa0facilitate and guide\xa0communications\xa0across functions, sections and levels of the organisation,\xa0negotiate agreed solutions\n• Numeracy skills to evaluate financial priorities, metrics and KPIs\n• Learning skills to seek and analyse new information to generate new ideas and solutions.\nOther foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit.'}

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