Assessment - Written or Oral Questions
You must individually, answer the following questions in full to show your competency of each element:
1. Create opportunities to maximise innovation within the team
2. Organise and agree effective ways of working
3. Support and guide colleagues
4. Reflect on how the team is working
1. Create opportunities to maximise innovation within the team. Include the following information in your answer:
- Why you should evaluate and reflect on what the team needs and wants to achieve
- Why you should check information about current or potential team member's work in the context of developing a more innovative team
- Why bring people into the team or make suggestions for team members based on what needs to be achieved and the potential for cross fertilising ideas
- Why acknowledge, respect and discuss the different ways that different people may contribute to building or enhancing the team.
2. Organise and agree effective ways of working. Include the following information in your answer:
- Why you should jointly establish ground rules for how the team will operate
- Why you should agree and communicate responsibilities in ways that encourage and reinforce team-based innovation
- Why you should agree and share tasks and activities to ensure the best use of skills and abilities within the team
- Why you should plan and schedule activities to allow time for thinking, challenging and collaboration
- Why you should establish personal reward and stimulation as an integral part of the team's way of working.
3. Support and guide colleagues. Include the following information in your answer:
- Why you should model behaviour that supports innovation
- Why you should seek external stimuli and ideas to feed into team activities
- Why you should proactively share information, knowledge and expertise with other team members
- Why you should challenge and test ideas within the team in a positive and collaborative way
- Why you should proactively discuss and explore ideas with other team members on an ongoing basis.
4. Reflect on how the team is working. Include the following information in your answer:
- Why you should debrief and reflect on activities and on opportunities for improvement and innovation
- Why you should gather and use feedback from within and outside the team to generate discussion and debate
- Why you should discuss the challenges of being innovative in a constructive and open way
- Why you should take ideas for improvement, build them into future activities and communicate key issues to relevant colleagues
- Why you should identify, promote and celebrate successes and examples of successful innovation.