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BSBLED401 Develop Teams and Individuals Assignment

Purpose
This assessment task provides you the opportunity to confirm you have gained the underpinning knowledge required by you to:

a determine individual and team development needs and to facilitate the development of the workgroup.

Assessment Purpose

Satisfactory completion of this assessment contributes to the evidence your assessor will collect which will reflect that you understand and are aware of how to determine individual and team development needs and to facilitate the development of the workgroup. Specifically:
• describe facilitation techniques to encourage team development and improvement
• Systematically identify and implement learning and development needs in line with organisational requirements.
• Collect feedback on performance of team members from relevant sources and compare with established team learning needs.

Question 1
Team work is a collaboration of needs, agreed to and implemented. As a leader, what facilitation techniques to encourage team development and improvement, can you implement? in your response, give 2 examples.

Reading

Using the reading Guide to the National Quality Standards, ACECQA (2011). Answer the following questions.

See Quality Area 7 Leadership and Service Management: Element 7.2.2 - the performance of educators, co-ordinators and staff members is evaluated, and individual development plans are in place to support performance improvement.

Question 2
Why is it important to collaboratively negotiate modifications to individual development plans with educators to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of learning? In your response, give 3 reasons.

Question 2b
How can you encourage educators to self-evaluate their performance and identify areas for improvement while reviewing and modifying their development plans? In your response, explain 2 different encouragement techniques.

Question 3
List 3 formal documents that an early childhood service is required to attain from an educator to demonstrate their competency to work in the industry?

Assessment Task 2

Read the scenario and answer the related question.

Scenario- Training New Employees

As the Director of a children's service, Greg has the responsibility of coaching the new Certificate trainees and monitoring their progress.
Greg (the director) has concerns regarding the knowledge of the 3, new certificate Ill trainees. He has asked for feedback on their performance from a variety of sources.

Feedback given: They are all nice girls; The children and parents like them. They can all be very slow to notice behaviours of concern. Sam and Nidhi find it hard to get the children to listen to them. Bree often forgets to observe all the children within the room, while interacting with a group or individual child. All 3 girls often need guidance to successfully supervise all areas of the outside space.

Greg would like to get the trainees to self-evaluate their performance and identify areas for improvement, before creating a learning plan.

Question 1a
Create 3 questions that Greg could use as part of the self-evaluation.

Question lb
Give 2 positive ways Greg could encourage the trainees to honestly complete their self-evaluation.

Question 1c
Using the feedback given in the scenario; Complete the below Learning plan.
Learning goal
Workplace coaching or mentoring to be given, to achieve learning goal
Explain in detail, learning activity that will be used as support to achieve the learning goal
Resources/support materials required

Question 1d
How can Greg, ensure the learning plan is;
• collaboratively developed
• agreed to
• implemented.
In your response, give one example for each of the dot points above.

Question 1e
Greg wants to collect feedback on the trainees' performance from relevant sources and compare it with the learning goal (from their learning plan)
Name 3 positions within an early childhood service that would be appropriate to ask for feedback regarding the trainees' performance?

Question 1f
Explain in detail how Greg could use feedback to determine the effectiveness of the learning plan and the extend of additional development support required

Scenario 2
Addressing Conflict

Read the scenario and answer the related question.

Scenario- Addressing Conflict

Maxine (the service Director) is aware that there is tension building within the team working in the nursery room. There have been disagreements between the two educators Michelle and Elizabeth on planning directed art and craft activities for the children. Maxine knows she should take charge and address the problems before they get out of hand; However, Maxine keeps telling herself - she will get to it tomorrow.

She knows she is avoiding the problem, but just doesn't know where to start to speak to the educators about the issue.

Question 2a
What steps could Maxine take to speak to the educators and what feedback could she give? In your response, give 3 examples of actions / feedback, Maxine could give.

Question 2b
Explain 2 ways, Maxine could encourage Michelle and Elizabeth to encourage team development and improvement?

Question 2c
List a policy, that Maxine could use to explain the services procedure for developing teams.

Assessment Task 3 AT3 - Practical

Development of work plans
In order to identify learning needs and evaluate aspects of specific knowledge and skills required for service delivery. It is essential to have in place a systemic approach to the development of work plans, which can be used as a tool for evaluation and accountability or teams and individuals.

Question 1a
Identify a learning goal that could be used to ensure all educators are wearing hats while supervising outside? List I standard and element from the NQF that supports your learning goal.

Question 1b
Once you have identified a learning goal that could be used to ensure all educators are wearing hats, while supervising outside. Explain an activity you could use to provide coaching assistance to the educators, to achieve the goal. Use the below template 'Coaching session to achieve learning goal' to record your answer.

Attachment:- Develop Teams and Individuals Assignment.rar