Course Title: Ensure team effectiveness
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2011
Course Code: EMPL5620C
Course Title: Ensure team effectiveness
School: 130T Vocational Engineering
Campus: City Campus
Program: C6083 - Advanced Diploma of Electronics and Communications Engineering
Course Contact: William Lau
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4468
Course Contact Email: william.lau@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Gita Pendharkar
Email: gita.pendharkar@rmit.edu.au
Tel: 9925 4701
Olga Gredeskoul
Email: olga.gredeskoul@rmit.edu.au
Tel: 9925 4392
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 unit specifies the outcome required by frontline managers to facilitate all aspects of team work within the organisation. It involves taking a leadership role in the development of team plans, leading and facilitating team work ant actively engaging with the management of the organisation.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
BSBFLM512A Ensure team effectiveness |
Element: |
1. Establish team performance plan |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1 Team members are consulted to establish team purpose, roles, |
Element: |
2. Develop and facilitate team cohesion |
Performance Criteria: |
2.1 Strategies are developed to ensure team members have input into |
Element: |
3. Facilitate team work |
Performance Criteria: |
3.1 Team members and individuals are encouraged to participate in taking |
Element: |
4. Liaise with stakeholders |
Performance Criteria: |
4.1 Open communication processes with all stakeholders are established |
Learning Outcomes
Details of Learning Activities
Practical work will be assessed under conditions which simulate the normal work environment.
Progressive assessments will include oral and written demonstration, simulation role-plays, computer assisted learning, observation of group discussions, assignment and projects.
This will include:
• Classroom group discussions to analyse a specified competency and underpinning knowledge
• Consultations with the teacher to identify gaps in one’s skills and knowledge in the specified area
• Maintaining training diary to document training activities and achievements
• Practical demonstrations of achieved competency
Teaching Schedule
BSBFLM512A Ensure Team Effectiveness
Week 1: Course overview, Class schedule, Assessment tasks and Introductions.
Week 2: Teams v Groups
Week 3: Establishing communication process
Week 4: Communicating with the team and management
Week 5: Leading by Example
Week 6: Ethical Behaviour
Week 7: Communicating expectations, roles and responsibilities
Week 8: Setting Goals and Objectives. Assessment Part 1 (30%)
Week 9: Team Participation
Week 10: Accountability and Responsibility
Week 11: Supporting the Team.
Week 12: Providing Feedback.
Week 13: Dealing with Issues and Concerns ,Assessment Part 2 (30%).
Week 14: Managing Conflict & Problem Solving and Decision Making.
Week 15 - 16: Team Presentations. Assessment Part 3 (40%)
Week 17-18 Course Evaluation
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
Robbins, Stephen (2009), Foundations of management, 3rd ed. Pearson Education: Frenchs Forest, N.S.W. |
References
Cole, K. (2001), Supervision: the theory and practice of front-line management, Prentice Hall: Australia |
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Vroom, Victor & Yetton, Philip (1973), Leadership and decision-making, 2nd ed. University of Pittsburgh Press: Pittsburgh |
Other Resources
Additional reference material will be available from the course Blackboard web site.
Overview of Assessment
Progressive assessments will include oral and written demonstration, simulation role-plays, computer assisted learning, observation of group discussions, assignment and projects. Practical work will be assessed under conditions which simulate the normal work environment.
Assessment Tasks
Assessment Task 1. Written group assignment. (30%)
Working in teams of 3 or 4, to submit written answers to a range of questions, related to:
*Teamwork
*Leading by example
*Behaving ethically
*Communicating expectations
*Roles and responsibilities, and
*Setting goals.
Questions will usually be distributed in Week 1, for team submission by Week 8.
Topics/Competencies covered will include: teamwork; leading by example; communicating expectations, roles and responsibilities and setting goals.
Assessment Task 2. Written group assignment. (30%)
Working in teams of 3 or 4, to submit written answers to a range of questions, related to:
• Team participation
• Accountability and responsibility
• Supporting the team
• Providing feedback
• Dealing with issues and concerns
Questions will usually be distributed in Week 8 for submission by Week 15.
Topics/Competencies covered will include: supporting the team; acting ethically; providing feedback and dealing with issues and concerns.
Assessment Part 3. Oral presentation. (40%)
This assessment task requires your team to make an oral presentation based on your written work.
Your oral presentation should be supported by visual aids, and is to be based on the written work prepared for Assignment Parts 1 and 2.
Your team will also need to include in your presentation issues of managing conflict and problem solving and decision making. This may be based on processes that your own team worked through, or you may base it on another case such as an issue dealt with in the media, or another segment of the movie ‘Saving Private Ryan’.
Your team’s presentation will be required to tie the theories learnt back into a workplace setting, under the banner of:
• What implications the situations have for the team leader in the workplace?
The presentations are expected to be made by teams during Weeks 17 and 18.
This course is graded using the following course grades-
80 - 100: CHD- Competent with High Distinction
70 - 79: CDI- Competent with Distinction
60 - 69: CC- Competent with Credit
50 - 59: CAG- Competency Achieved Graded
0 - 49: NYC- Not Yet Competent
DNS- Did Not Submit for Assessment
Assessment Matrix
Competency National Code: BSBFLM512A
Competency Title: Ensure team effectiveness
Assessment Types: Assignments, Project/Presentation
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