BSBLED401 Develop teams and individuals: Workplace Tasks

BSBLED401
Develop teams and individuals
Student Name: Julie Jennings Name of Service: Poppy Day Care

Workplace Assessment Tasks

Required Readings
In order to complete this unit of competency you are required to access the following key resources.

Textbook

Kearns, K. (2014). The Business of Child Care: Working in Early Childhood Education and
Care Series (3rd ed.). Victoria: Cengage Learning Australia.

Assessment Instructions
Students are required to provide appropriate responses to the indicated questions.

Assessment Outcomes

The Early Childhood Education and Care training packages are vocational qualifications that are
competency based. For each assessment undertaken you will be assessed as Satisfactory, Not Yet
Satisfactory or Incomplete. Where students are assessed as Not Yet Satisfactory or Incomplete the
trainer/assessor will provide the student with feedback and guidance regarding what needs to be
completed for resubmission.

Student Appeals

Students have the right to appeal an unfavourable decision or finding during assessment. All students
appeals must be made in writing using the Appeals Form and specify the particulars of the decision or
finding in dispute. Appeals must be lodged within 28 days of the decision or finding.

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001 Individual Performance Review

Activity 1

For this task you are required to access a copy of the service staff performance review/appraisal
documents. Discuss these documents and the performance/review appraisal process with the
person responsible for managing this process.

Satisfactory/
Workplace Task 1: Individual Performance Review/Appraisal
Not Yet
Process
Satisfactory (S
or NYS)
Who is involved in the review/appraisal process?
How often are review/appraisals conducted?
What are the steps in the review/appraisal process?
How does the educator identify areas for improvement? How are goals set?
What timeframe is recommended for the review of the goals?
How are educators assisted to achieve improvements in their work
performance? How is feedback given and received?
What resources/equipment is made available for educator development?
Describe the facilitation techniques for educator development such as coaching,
demonstrating etc. How is the educators learning style identified to ensure
they are assisted to achieve improvements in their work performance?
Describe the facilitation techniques for educator development such as coaching,
demonstrating etc. How is the educators learning style identified to ensure
they are assisted to achieve improvements in their work performance?
What documentation is recorded and kept on the review/appraisal process and
set goals?
How are additional training needs managed after the review/appraisal? How are
any changes or modifications to the review/appraisal goals managed?
How does management evaluate the review/appraisal system? How is feedback
gathered to identify if changes or improvements need to be made to the
services review/appraisal system?

Note: Student to provide a sample of Individual Performance

002 Group/Team Goals

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Activity 1

A key role for mangers is to implement processes and systems that promote cooperative work practices
and develop reflective practice to achieve workplace goals particularly in regard to a self-assessment
and the development of a Quality Improvement Plan.

To complete this task you are required to investigate and document the range of systems used by the
service to determine group/team training goals.

Satisfactory/
Workplace Task 2: Group/Team Goals
Not Yet
Satisfactory (S
or NYS)
Who is responsible at the service for staff/team development?
Does the service have group/team training goals? For example fire equipment
training, group/team professional development relating to Quality Areas,
programming, reflective practice etc.
How does the group/team collaborate to set the training goals?
What training/learning opportunities are there for the group/team to achieve the
training goals?
How are the teams learning styles catered to? For example a range of activities
and support materials are provided.
How are timelines determined to meet the group/team goals? Is there a budget
attached to group/team training? If so, how is this budget monitored and used?
How is the group/team training goal monitored, reviewed and evaluated?
How are the group/team goals recorded and documented during the process?
How is feedback given and received on the effectiveness of the training and the
participation and involvement of the group/team members?
How are achievements of set group/team goals celebrated? How is this
information shared with the group/team?

Activity 2

Using the information from Activity 1 you are required to research additional information relating to the
services current goal that the group/team is working together on. For example if the group/team is
working on reflective practice your task will be to find supplementary information to add to the
discussion to collaborate with the achievement of the group/team goal. This supplementary
information could be websites, posters, readings, articles, photographs, power point presentations etc.

You are required to:

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Document the services group/team goal.

List the information/resources/equipment that the group/team has sourced and used in their
discussions and work on the goal to date.

Document, describe or attach the three pieces of supplementary information relating to the
services group/team goal. For each of the three pieces of supplementary information
describe how it could be used with the group/team e.g. as a discussion prompt, a visual to
assist in consistent practice, a checklist to identify areas for improvement etc.

Describe how the supplementary information was presented to the group/team.

Comment on any feedback from the group/team on your information and how it assisted in
their progress towards the service goal.

Have your workplace supervisor comment and sign off on your task.

Document your answers on the Collaborating with Group/Team Goals template.

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Workplace Task 002 Activity 2

Collaborating with Group/Team Goals

Describe the group/team goal.

List the information/resources/equipment that the group/team has sourced and used in their
discussions and work on the goal to date.

Created survey for staff to take part and got everyones feedback

Looked at all existing material relating to training and where and how training is
conducted for new and existing staff

Researched other companies on best methods of training and ensuring all documents
are valid and up to date

Document, describe or attach the three pieces of supplementary information relating to the services
group/team goal. For each of the three pieces of supplementary information describe how it could be
used with the group/team e.g. as a discussion prompt, a visual to assist in consistent practice, a
checklist to identify areas for improvement etc.

Supplementary information 1

Power Point presentation

Supplementary information 2

Articles/Readings

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Supplementary information 3

Posters

Describe how the supplementary information was presented to the group/team i.e. as a display or with
your workplace supervisors permission you may present at a group/team meeting.

Insert photo of display.

Comment on any feedback from the group/team on your information and how it assisted in their
progress towards the service goal.

Team discussed how this will help in achieving a goal they have been trying to tackle
and achieve for a long period of time

Now they can see that progress has been made to address issues with current
training mode

Supervisor comment: Please comment on; how the information related to the group/team goal, how
the information informed discussion and the participation of the team, relevance of the information to
the individuals in the team and the variety of information to appeal to differing learning styles.

Student Name: Service:

Supervisor Name: Signature: Date:

Supervisor Name: Supervisor Signature:

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