Course Title: Lead a team to foster innovation

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C5177

Course Title: Lead a team to foster innovation

Portfolio: DSC

Nominal Hours: 36.0

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Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
BUSM5797C	City Campus	TAFE	320T Design (TAFE)	Face-to-Face	Term1 2007

Course Contact: Jo Beckerleg

Course Contact Phone: 9925 4211

Course Contact Email: joanne.beckerleg@rmit.edu.au

Course Description

This unit covers the skills and knowledge required to lead a workplace team in ways that foster innovative work practice.  It covers the skills that are needed by individuals who are leading work teams on individual projects or in work in general. The skills cover the requirements for encouraging innovation within individual team members as well as a team as a whole. They include how to put a team together and keep it working well, how to structure work and monitor progress, how to ensure that the team have the information and skills they need and how to apply innovative work skills to the leadership role.

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None

National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:	WRRO9A Lead a team to foster innovation
Elements:	Monitor the team’s ongoing use of innovative work practices
	Organise teams to maximise innovation
	Organise work assignments within team to facilitate innovative work practices
	Provide a model of innovative work practice
	Provide feedback on the use of innovative work skills
	Provide guidance and coaching to team members on innovation in the workplace

Learning Outcomes

1 Organise teams to maximise innovation
2 Organise work assignments within team to facilitate innovative work practices
3 Provide guidance and coaching to team members on innovation in the workplace
4 Provide a model of innovative work practice
5 Monitor the team’s ongoing use of innovative work practices
6 Provide feedback on the use of innovative work skills

Overview of Assessment

• Group presentations
• Reflective journaling
• Research project
• Report writing