Course Title: Team Work

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term1 2008

Course Code: GRAP5124L

Course Title: Team Work

School: 350T Fashion & Textiles

Campus: Brunswick Campus

Program: C5166 - Diploma of Textiles Clothing and Footwear

Course Contact : Rhonda Ingwersen

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 9214

Course Contact Email:rhonda.ingwersen@rmit.edu.au

Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff

Kirsty Gorter - 99259219

kirsty.gorter@rmit.edu.au

Nominal Hours: 20

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

Teamwork in the Fashion Industry

Course Description

Frontline management has a key role in leading, participating in, facilitating and empowering work teams/groups within the context of the organisation. They play a prominent part in motivating, mentoring, coaching and developing team members, and in achieving team cohesion.

National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:	BSXFMI504A Participate in, lead and facilitate work teams
Element:	BSXFMI504A/01 Participate in team planning
Performance Criteria:	The team establishes clearly defined purpose, roles, responsibilities and accountabilities within the organisation's goals and objectives. • The team performance plan contributes to the organisation's business plan, policies and practices.
Element:	BSXFMI504A/01 Participate in team planning
Performance Criteria:	• The team agrees to processes to monitor and adjust its performance within the organisation's continuous improvement policies. • The team includes in its plans ways in which it can benefit from the diversity of its membership.
Element:	BSXFMI504A/02 Develop team commitment and co-operation
Performance Criteria:	The team uses open communication processes to obtain and share information. • The team encourages and exploits innovation and initiative.
Element:	BSXFMI504A/02 Develop team commitment and co-operation
Performance Criteria:	• Support is provided to the team to develop mutual concern and camaraderie.
Element:	BSXFMI504A/03 Manage and develop team performance
Performance Criteria:	• The team is supported in making decisions within its agreed roles and responsibilities. • The results achieved by the team contribute positively to the organisation's business plans.
Element:	BSXFMI504A/03 Manage and develop team performance
Performance Criteria:	• Team and individual competencies are monitored regularly to confirm that the team is able to achieve its goals. • Mentoring and coaching supports team members to enhance their knowledge and skills. • Delegates' performance is monitored to confirm that they have completed their delegation/assignment.
Element:	BSXFMI504A/04 Participate in, and facilitate the work team
Performance Criteria:	Team effectiveness is encouraged and enhanced through active participation in team activities and communication processes.
Element:	BSXFMI504A/04 Participate in, and facilitate the work team
Performance Criteria:	• Individuals and teams are actively encouraged to take individual and joint responsibility for their actions. • The diversity of individual's knowledge and skills is used to enhance team performance. • The team receives support to identify and resolve problems which impede its performance.

Learning Outcomes

This course covers team activities such as simulations, case studies and project based learning in areas that focus on:
1. Examining ways in which a team can establish clearly defined purposes, roles, responsibilities and accountabilities, and how diversification of members can benefit the team
2. Recognising how the team performance plan can contribute to the organisation’s business plan, policies and practices, and how to monitor and adjust performance to match continuous improvement policies
3. Developing team commitment and co-operation by means of a fashion group activity or project as part of a team
4. Identifying ways of encouraging and developing innovation and initiative within the team
5. Identifying ways of providing support within a team to identify and resolve problems which impede the team’s performance
6. Monitoring of individual and team competencies to achieve set goals
7. Developing mentoring and coaching support skills to enhance members knowledge and skills and to use these skills to enhance team performance
8. Monitoring team members performance
9. Fostering active participation in team activities and communication processes
10. Encouraging individual and joint responsibility for actions

Details of Learning Activities

Each lesson will explore different aspects of how and why teams are successful or do not succeed. The topics are listed in the Teaching Schedule below.
Students will participate in practical activities, small team brainstorming, and reports to class.
Industry Experts will speak on how teams operate in their area of the Fashion Industry.

Teaching Schedule

Week 1: Review Cert IV Teamwork in the Fashion Industry; Organisational Behaviour
Week 2: Attitudes and how they influence the team experience
Week 3: Personality and how it influences the team experience; Myers Briggs Personality Indicator test
Week 4: Emotional Intelligence; reflection and improvement
Week 5: Personality types and job characteristics
Week 6: Report Writing; Mind-maps
Week 7: Leadership Concepts and Theories
Week 8: Writing and reading Résumé’s and cover letters
Week 9: Industry Speakers (time to be advised)
Week10: Industry Speakers (time to be advised)
Week 11: Industry Speakers (time to be advised)
Week 12: Industry Speakers (time to be advised)

Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts

References

Other Resources

Overview of Assessment

Tasks that have not been authenticated in class as the student’s own work will not be considered for assessment. Regular attendance is necessary to demonstrate that you can:
1. Collect, analyse and organise ideas and information and use this information appropriately to their work responsibility by giving and receiving feedback
2. Contribute to the production of a written or oral project report as part of a team
3. Communicate effectively by selecting and using appropriate communication methods and technologies which enhance the team’s ability to reach planned goals (include information management systems)
4. Plan and organise activities, and make decisions within responsibility and authority
5. Work with others in a team to establish a commitment to the company’s goals, values and plans
6. Solve problems and deal with conflict before it effects the team’s performance
7. Encourage team to openly propose, discuss and resolve issues and reward and support team’s achievement

Assessment Tasks

Assessment is progressive and will happen in scheduled class time. In every lesson Students will participate in practical activities and small group/team brainstorming sessions. (The 8 topics covered are listed in the Teaching Schedule above.) Teams will report findings orally and in writing. 100%

If students miss a lesson they will need to complete a written task to be emailed to the teacher with in two weeks from when the lesson was missed.

Assessment Matrix

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