Course Title: Ensure team effectiveness

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term1 2013

Course Code: EMPL5627C

Course Title: Ensure team effectiveness

School: 650T TAFE Business

Campus: City Campus

Program: C5221 - Diploma of Business Administration

Course Contact : Sylvia Baroutis

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 5469

Course Contact Email:sylvia.baroutis@rmit.edu.au


Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff

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

None

Course Description

This course facilitates all aspects of teamwork within an organisational setting.  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.  Team members will facilitate work teams and build a positive culture within work teams.  Soft skills are applied to a structured approach to the management of the team.


National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:

BSBWOR502A 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

1.2 Develop performance plans to estbalish expected outcomes, outputs, key performance indicators and goals for work team

1.3 Support team members in meeting expected performance outcomes

Element:

2. Develop and facilitate team cohesion

Performance Criteria:

2.1 Develop strategies to ensure team members have input into planning, decision making and operational aspects of work team

2.2 Develop policies and procedures to ensure team members take responsibility for own work and assist others to undertake required roles and responsibilities

2.3 Provide feedback to team members to encourage, value and reward individual and team efforts and contributions

2.4 Develop processes to ensure that issues, concerns and problems identified by team members are recognised and addressed

Element:

3. Facilitate teamwork

Performance Criteria:

3.1 Encourage team members and individuals to participate in and to take responsibility for team activities, including communication processes

3.2 Support the team in identifying and resolving work performance problems

3.3 Ensure own contribution to work team serves as a role model for others and enhances the organisation's image for all stakeholders

Element:

4. Liaise with stakeholders

Performance Criteria:

4.1 Establish and maintain open communication processes with all stakeholders

4.2 Communicate information from line manager/management to the team

4.3 Communicate unresolved issues, concerns and problems raised by team members and follow-up with line manager/management and other relevant stakeholders

4.4 Evaluate and take necessary corrective action regarding unresolved issues, conferns and problems raised by internal or external stakeholders


Learning Outcomes



Details of Learning Activities

Your team is to plan to make the Conference Event held this semester to be carbon neutral.  Your team will research ways to make the event "green" and apply your learning to creating a carbon neutral event.  Assign a Team Leader as early as possible.  Your learning is action based and you will apply theory to practice drawing on the textbook theory.

Some learning activities will include a self-directed learning approach such as reading the textbook prior to class.  Working cohesively with your team is essential to your learning experience.  Apart from this fact you will learn from workplace research, library assignments, fieldwork and work placements.


Teaching Schedule

Week Week Commencing  Content Assessment

1

11 February 2013

Course induction

Course delivery and assessment details

Course support documents

Online learning environment including Blackboard

Grading

Plagiarism/use of Turnitin

Appeals/Extensions

Feedback/Privacy

Submission requirements/Feedback

Where to get support

Student responsibilities

Recognition of Prior Learning/Credit Transfer

Task 1: The project brief including Parts A, B, C, D.  All parts must be attempted and graded as CA to be deemed competent in this course.

2

18 February 2013

TOPIC: Green Event Ideas. How does an event become a team building opportunity? How does an event become sustainable/green?
 

The changing work environment - Chapter 1

Develop team principles

Why do we work in teams?

Understanding sustainability: visit www.sustainability.vic.gov.au

The operating environment: Chapter 2

Elements: 1.1-1.3; 4.1-4.2.

 

3

26 February 2013 

 The informal organisation: Chapter 4

Establish team roles/goals/KPI’s
Research

Elements: 1.1-1.3, 2.1-2.2, 4.1-4.3

 

4 March 2013

 Building effective work teams: Chapter 13

Stages in team development

Research

Elements: 2.1-2.4

 Part A Due
 
5 11 March 2013

 Assigning Work and Delegating Duties: Chapter 12

Establish team performance plan

What’s working and what’s not - and why.

Elements: 2.1-2.4, 3.1-3.3

 

 EXCURSION: Location to be advised.  Group meeting (assessable).

6
 
18 March 2013 

 Leading non-traditional teams: Chapter 14

Leadership theory and practice

Elements: 2.1-2.4

 
7
 
25 March 2013 Chapter 23: Managing for sustainability

Unlocking peak performance: Chapter 11

Team activity: dynamics and cohesion;

Roles people play and their associated strength

Elements: 2.1 - 2.4

 

Part B Due
7 28 March - 3 April 2013 MID SEMESTER BREAK (includes 1 April Easter Monday Public Holiday, 2 April Easter Tuesday RMIT holiday, 4 April classes resume).  

8

8 April 2013

Practical Placement

 

9

15 April 2013

 

Practical Placement

 

 Teacher visit to host employer.
10
 
22 April 2013

Chapter 23: Managing for sustainability

Develop and facilitate team cohesion

Peak performance and harmony 

Elements: 3.1, 3.3
 

 
11
 
29 April 2013 

CONFERENCE

 

 

12

 

6 May 2013

 Facilitate teamwork - problemsolving activities - nominal group technique

Elements: 4.1-4.4

 Part C Due

 

13

13 May 2013

Develop and facilitate team cohesion

Stakeholder management

Communication theory; Processes and Systems

Elements: 3.1-3.3
 

 

 

14

 

20 May 2013 

Facilitate teamwork -

Apply communication theory

Stakeholder management - getting it right - for internal and external customers 

Elements: all

 

 

 

15

 

 27 May 2013

Liaising with stakeholders to achieve team outcome.

Final report production.

Elements: All

 Part D Due

 

 

16

 

 3 June 2013 Feedback and review.  


Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts

Management Theory and Practice: 4th ed, Kris Cole, Pearson.


References


Other Resources

Excursion cost: approximately $20.  More information provided in class.


Overview of Assessment

Students must demonstrate an understanding of all elements of a particular unit of competency to be deemed competent.  Students are advised that they will be asked to personally demonstrate their assessment work to their teacher to ensure that the relevant competency standards are being met.

Assessment methods have been designed to measure achievements of each competency.  Assessments may incorporate a variety of methods: direct questioning combined with a review of portfolios of evidence, review of authenticated documents from the training environment and demonstration of techniques.

In addition to the assessments, feedback is provided to the students throughout the duration of the course.


Assessment Tasks

Critical Aspects:

Evidence of the following is essential:

1. That a range of techniques that can be used to build work teams, strengthen communications in the team and resolve conflict.

2. Methods for engaging with stakeholders and obtaining advice from outside the work team, to ensure team is focussed and on track.

3, Knowledge of group behaviour.

The student must demonstrate competence in all elements to be deemed competent in this unit. 

TASK 1

Team Project Brief:

Task 1 consists of four parts.  You will receive feedback and a grade for each part during the semester. Using the marking guide in myRMIT you will play an active role in your team in developing within your team what’s new in terms of sustainability for events and report on your own progress, ask questions, share information and for problem-solving and ideas-generating discussion.  Your team will bring its ideas progressively responding to Parts A-D over the semester to make the Conference Carbon Neutral.  Note that an event can be carbon offset by fundraising for a sustainable charity as a renewable approach to purchasing carbon credits in business operations. Due dates see above schedule. 

Assessment Tasks 

This is a team assessment. Your individual contribution is assessment.  Your team and you must achieve CA grade for all 4 parts of Task 1 to be deemed competent in this course.  Feedback on your individual work and team work is given in class, weekly.

Submission Requirements

Assessment tasks need to be submitted via the dropbox in the week due.

You should:

• Ensure that you submit assessments on or before the due date. If your performance in the assessment is affected by unexpected circumstances, you should consider applying for Special Consideration. Information on the process and application forms is available at myRMIT/Studies and indicated in your Student Diary.
• Always retain a copy of your assessment tasks. (hard copy and soft copy)
• When you submit work for assessment at RMIT University you need to use a cover sheet that includes a declaration and statement of authorship. You must complete, sign and submit a cover sheet with all work you submit for assessment, whether individual or group work. On the cover sheet you declare that the work you are presenting for assessment is your own work. An assignment cover sheet for submission of work for assessment is available on blackboard.
• Each page of your assessment should include footer with your name, student number, the title of the assessment, unit code and title and page numbers. 


Marking Guide (competency):

Vocational Education and Training (VET) is based on current industry needs and the focus on preparing you for the workplace. Because VET courses are informed by practical application of knowledge and skills, they are based on a system known as ‘competency based training’ (CBT). So when you are assessed in VET it is about whether you are competent to do the job, as well as having a firm grasp on the knowledge and skills required to do that job, as opposed to traditional curriculum based education settings that are often based on knowledge retention.

You need to demonstrate you are competent in each element of the unit of competency you are studying.

You will receive feedback on each assessment task that will inform you whether you are competent or not and how well you are performing. Once competent in all elements of the unit you receive a competency grading.

Please refer to the Final Grades table below.

Marking Guide (Grading)

After achieving competency we then grade your performance in the unit; this gives you the opportunity to have the level of your performance formally recognized against industry standards and employability skills.


The grading is according to the following criteria:


1. LEVEL OF INDEPENDENCE, INITIATIVE, ENTERPRISE AND PERFORMANCE OF WORK TASK

You will show that you can work autonomously and in a group, demonstrating your knowledge of group theory and applying strong interpersonal skills.  You will be able to schedule strategies and make your contribution to the team within the required deadline.

2. DEMONSTRATED BREADTH OF UNDERPINNING KNOWLEDGE AND A WILLINGNESS TO CONTINUE LEARNING

You will plan for your learning needs in order to meet the team requirements described in the Task 1.  You will apply theory to practice drawing from the textbook and applying it to your situation of creating a Green Sustainable Conference. You will follow legislative and regulatory requirements to ensure the safety and security of the organisation’s (your team/RMIT/stakeholders) information.

3. TECHNIQUES & PROCESSES, TECHNOLOGY SKILLS AND PROBLEM SOLVING

Your business documents will be presented professionally and the content organised logically and iits appearance is outstanding showing superior command of English. Your documents will be free of formatting errors.  You will anticipate problems and solve them using a risk management and contingency approach.  You will demonstrate your research skills as a group, innovating for a "Green Sustainable Conference".


4. WORK ORGANISATION, PLANNING AND SELF MANAGEMENT

You will not miss any deadlines, allocate resources and ensure organisational requirements are met.  You will collect, collate and analyse appropriate information storing data in the RMIT business system.  You will strategise to meet client/stakeholder needs.  You will manage communications effectively through excellent time management and organisational skills.


5. COMMUNICATION, PEOPLE NETWORKING, LANGUAGE AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS AND TEAMWORK

You will be able to compose specific written plans, set goals, prioritise goals and schedule your carbon neutral strategies, narrowing your focus and delegating tasks in order to get the team goals met.  You will describe accurately the topic addressed (sustainable events). 
 

 

Final Grades table:


CHD    Competent with High Distinction
CDI      Competent with Distinction
CC       Competent with Credit
CAG     Competency Achieved – Graded
NYC     Not Yet Competent
DNS    Did Not Submit for assessment

Further information regarding the application of the grading criteria will be provided by your teacher.
 


Assessment Matrix

EMPL5627C Ensure team effectiveness

Sustainability Project: Making the Conference Carbon Neutral

Assessment
Required Knowledge:  

Group behaviour

Models for conflict resolution

Parts A-D
Required Skills:  

Training skills to mentor and coach team members

Communication skills to explain team goals, to address team conflict and to build an environment of trust

Planning and organisational skills to keep team on track and focussed on work outcomes

Parts A-D

Elements/performance criteria:

1. Establish team performance plan (1.1 - 1.3)

2. Develop and facilitate team cohesion (2.1 - 2.4)

3. Facilitate teamwork (3.1 - 3.3)

4. Liaise with stakeholders (4.1 - 4.4)

 

 

 

Part A

Part B

Part C

Part D

 

 

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