Course Title: Management Skills

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C5165

Course Title: Management Skills

Portfolio: DSC

Nominal Hours: 72.0

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

NONE7208L

Brunswick Campus

TAFE

350T Fashion & Textiles

Face-to-Face

Term1 2007,
Term1 2008

Course Contact: Loraine Grant

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 9145

Course Contact Email: loraine.grant@rmit.edu.au


Course Description

To provide learners with skills and knowledge to:

• Collect information from relevant sources to achieve work responsibilities
• Use appropriate methods to communicate ideas and share information
• Obtain valuable input from internal and external sources for developing and refining new ideas and approaches
• Develop trust and confidence by treating people with integrity, respect and empathy
• Use social, ethical and business standards to develop and maintain positive relationships
• Gain and maintain trust and confidence of peers, colleagues, mentors, project managers and industry customers through competent performance
• Build and maintain relationships and networks by providing benefits for the team and organization
• Manage problems, poor performance and difficult situations through guidance, support, negotiation and corrective action to achieve positive outcomes.


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None



National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:

BSXFMI503A Establish and manage effective workplace relationships

Elements:

BSXFMI503A/01 Gather, convey and receive information and ideas

BSXFMI503A/01 Gather, convey and receive information and ideas

BSXFMI503A/02 Develop trust and confidence

BSXFMI503A/02 Develop trust and confidence

BSXFMI503A/03 Build and maintain networks and relationships

BSXFMI503A/03 Build and maintain networks and relationships

BSXFMI503A/04 Manage difficulties to achieve positive outcomes

BSXFMI503A/04 Manage difficulties to achieve positive outcomes

Frontline management plays an important role in developing and maintaining positive relationships in internal and external environments so that customers, suppliers and the organisation achieve planned outputs/outcomes.

National Element Code & Title:

LMTPDCL05A Dev/Present Des Concpt/s Wthn Specfd Gdlns 04/5

Elements:

LMTPDCL05A/01 Research fashion and garment

LMTPDCL05A/01 Research fashion and garment

LMTPDCL05A/02 Generate and select initial concepts in consultation with others

LMTPDCL05A/02 Generate and select initial concepts in consultation with others

LMTPDCL05A/03 Develop design concepts and details in consultation with others

LMTPDCL05A/03 Develop design concepts and details in consultation with others

LMTPDCL05A/04 Cost range/garment in conjunction with production area

LMTPDCL05A/04 Cost range/garment in conjunction with production area

LMTPDCL05A/05 Maintain records

LMTPDCL05A/05 Maintain records

This unit covers the skills and knowledge required for the development and presentation of garment design concepts to the client within specified guidelines in the enterprise.


Learning Outcomes

Refer to other sections of guide


Overview of Assessment

(1) Project Journal (Individual)

Reflects:
• Team development
• The building of relationships in the team
• The development of trust and confidence
• Support given to team members
• The coaching and mentoring of team members

Records:
• Personal work goals/diary
• Decisions made in meetings
• Team problems identified and rectified

(2) Project Report which explains: (individual)
• Strategies for creating & facilitating learning
• Strategies and the methods selected for managing poorly performed team members
• Recommendations for improving effective working relationships to achieve team and
project goals.

(3) Training & Development Plan (Group Presentation)