Course Title: Ensure team effectiveness
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2013
Course Code: EMPL5888C
Course Title: Ensure team effectiveness
School: 365T Global Studies, Soc Sci & Plng
Campus: Brunswick Campus
Program: C5215 - Diploma of Management
Course Contact : Anthony Graham
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 99254411
Course Contact Email:anthony.graham@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Bronwyn Tanti
Nominal Hours: 60
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.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
There are no pre-requisites for this unit of competency.
Course Description
This unit of competency describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to facilitate all aspects of teamwork within the organisation. It involves taking a leadership role in the development of team plans, leading and facilitating teamwork and actively engaging with the management of the organisation.
This unit of competency applies to managers and addresses the need for managers to facilitate work teams and to build a positive culture within work teams. The unit of competency takes a systematic and planned approach to developing teams. It includes the soft skills as well as more structured approaches to the management of teams.
At this level, work will normally be carried out within complex and diverse methods and procedures which require the exercise of considerable discretion and judgement, using a range of problem solving and decision making strategies.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
BSBWOR502B Ensure team effectiveness |
Element: |
1. Establish team performance plan |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1 Consult team members to establish a common understanding of team purpose, roles, responsibilities and accountabilities in accordance with organisational goals, plans and objectives
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Learning Outcomes
By completing this unit of competency you will achieve and demonstrate competence in the following skills:
Establishing team performance plans
Developing and facilitating team cohesion
Facilitating teamwork
Liaising with stakeholders
Details of Learning Activities
Students will study ensuring team effectiveness service concepts in the workshop sessions and online (Blackboard discussion) engagement, prescribed exercises and assessment work. These concepts will also be explored through the investigation of appropriate real world and simulated environments.
Teaching Schedule
The teaching schedule is determined after negotiation with the industry partner and the individual student. Generally workshops will be offered on a monthly basis during the academic year. Each workshop will be linked to a unit of competency. Attendance to each workshop will be based on the student’s individual learning plan.
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
Other Resources
Learning resources such as unit reading, unit references will be provided to all students via their program folders and also placed within the blackboard site as required.
Overview of Assessment
Assessment in this unit of competency will be through a mix of in-class tasks, workplace based projects, responses to a range of underpinning knowledge questions and the development of an evidence portfolio linked to the unit of competency elements and workplace practice. An upfront assessment to develop an individual learning plan will occur. An individual assessment appointments will be undertaken with each student to allow students to present and discuss workplace evidence.
Assessment Tasks
A student must demonstrate an understanding of all elements of this particular competency and assessment tasks are based on the requirements of the essential aspects of evidence as outlined in the unit of competency: BSBWOR502B Ensure team effectiveness.
Assessment methods have been designed to measure achievement of each competency in a flexible manner over a range of assessment tasks.
A workplace assessment appointment will be undertaken to allow students to present and discuss workplace evidence: Based on the individual student’s knowledge, skills and experience: an individual learning plan will be negotiated and developed.
Assessment may incorporate a variety of methods including responses to task questions, in class activities, case studies, and the development of project work in consultation with the Course Coordinator ( assessor) and the student’s workplace.
Student will also be asked to complete an evidence portfolio documenting workplace practise as linked to the unit of competency. Students are advised that they are likely to be asked to personally demonstrate their assessment work to their Course Coordinator to ensure that the relevant competency standards are being met.
Assessment Matrix
A combination of assessment activities based on each individual student’s learning plans may be developed as required.
Assessments will be based on the level of the individual student’s knowledge, skills and experience as ascertained at a workplace meeting where workplace evidence is discussed and presented.
At completion of the course an evidence portfolio will validate competence with the assessment task activities’ completed for any competency gaps.
BSBWOR502B Ensure team effectiveness. |
Task questions | Case studies | Development of a workplace project | Workshop tasks | Development of an evidence portfolio of work practise |
Element 1 | X | X | X | X | X |
Element 2 | X | X | X | X | X |
Element 3 | X | X | X | X | X |
Element 4 | X | X | X | X | X |
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