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The key focus of the unit is on what makes for an innovative team, what keeps it working well, how the structure of work can make a difference and what skills and knowledge are needed to maximise opportunities for innovation.

Recently the production levels of your work group or team appear to have decreased. You need, therefore, to increase the quality and quantity of outputs.

1. How would you determine if it were necessary to make the team more diverse or to bring in other team members? How could diversity amongst existing team members be utilised to address this issue? What else might the team need to achieve acceptable production and quality levels?
2. Explain the strategies you might use to create opportunities to innovate within the team to solve the problem. Give reasons for using these methods. Why do you consider that they are the most efficient and effective ways of involving the team in the problem solution? How should you ensure that the team members cooperated and collaborated?
3. How would you support and guide team members to come up with innovative problem solutions?
4. How could you encourage the team to look further than the immediate problems and to consider innovative improvement activities that could be built into future work initiatives?
5. How would you reward and recognise innovative ideas and contributions from team members and why is it necessary to do?
6. Would you give feedback to team members who made suggestions that were not feasible or could not be used? How? Why?
7. Having come up with a solution, how would you review how effective the team was in working together to come up with and innovate to solve the problem? Why might it be important to discuss any challenges met?