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BSBSTR801

Lead innovative thinking


and practice

Learner Workbook
Table of Contents
Assessment instructions.................................................................................................................. 4
Assessment requirements............................................................................................................... 5
Candidate Details...............................................................................................................................6
Assessment – BSBSTR801 - Lead innovative thinking and practice.........................................6
Assessment Task 1 - Knowledge Activity......................................................................................7
Question 1:........................................................................................................................................ 7
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Knowledge Evidence checklist – for assessor................................................................................. 16
Assessment Task 2: Skills Test......................................................................................................18
Task 1: Develop a project plan...................................................................................................... 21
Task 2: Reflective Journal – Leadership Analysis.......................................................................23
Task 3: Promotional Plan............................................................................................................... 26
Task 4: Conduct a team meeting................................................................................................... 28
Task 5: Risk Assessment............................................................................................................... 31
Task 6: Sustainability Plan............................................................................................................. 32
Task 7: Reflection on Innovative Thinking and Practices...........................................................34
Task 1 – 7 checklist – for assessor................................................................................................... 38
Competency record to be completed by assessor..........................................................................40

Instructions to Learner

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Assessment instructions
Overview
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and the terms and conditions relating to the submission of your assessment task. Please consult
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 Address each question including any sub-points

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If it is identified that you have plagiarised within your assessment, then a meeting will be
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Competency outcome
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more training and experience).

Once the learner has completed all the assessments for this unit of competency, the learner will
be awarded “Competent” (C) or “Not Competent” (NC) for the relevant unit of competency.

Confidentiality

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Assessment appeals process


If you feel that you have been unfairly treated during your assessment, and you are not happy
with your assessment and/or the outcome as a result of that treatment, you have the right to
lodge an appeal. You must first discuss the issue with your trainer/assessor. If you would like to
proceed further with the request after discussions with your trainer/assessor, you need to lodge
your appeal via the complaint and appeal form which is available on the college website.

Recognised prior learning


Learners will be able to have their previous experience or expertise recognised on request.

Special needs

Learners with special needs should notify their trainer/assessor to request any required
adjustments as soon as possible. This will enable the trainer/assessor to address the identified
needs immediately.

Assessment requirements
Assessment can be:
 Direct observation

 Product-based methods e.g. reports, role plays, work samples

 Portfolios – annotated and validated

 Questioning.

The assessment activities in this workbook assess aspects of all the elements, performance
criteria, skills and knowledge and performance requirements of the unit of competency.

To demonstrate competence in this unit, you must undertake all activities in this workbook and
have them deemed satisfactory by the assessor. Once you have demonstrated the required level
of performance, you will be deemed competent in this unit.

As part of the assessment process, all learners must abide by any relevant assessment policies
as provided during induction.

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Candidate Details

Assessment – BSBSTR801 - Lead innovative thinking and practice


Please complete the following activities and hand in to your trainer/assessor for marking.
This forms part of your assessment for BSBSTR801 - Lead innovative thinking and practice

Name: ________Muhammad Umair Shahzada_________________

Learner ID: _______9925__________________________

Email: _____________________________________________________________

Declaration

I declare that no part of this assessment has been copied from another person’s work with
the exception of where I have listed or referenced documents or work and that no part of this
assessment has been written for me by another person. I also understand the assessment
instructions and requirements and consent to being assessed.

Signed: __________MUHAMMAD UMAIR SHAHZADA____________

Date: _______________13-03-2022_____________________________

If activities have been completed as part of a small group or in pairs, details of the
learners involved should be provided below:

This activity workbook has been completed by the following persons and we acknowledge
that it was a fair team effort where everyone contributed equally to the work completed. We
declare that no part of this assessment has been copied from another person’s work with the
exception of where we have listed or referenced documents or work and that no part of this
assessment has been written for us by another person.

Learner 1: ____________________________________________________________

Signed: ____________________________________________________________

Learner 2: ____________________________________________________________

Signed: ____________________________________________________________

Learner 3: ____________________________________________________________

Signed: ____________________________________________________________

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Assessment Task 1 - Knowledge Activity
Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must be able to demonstrate knowledge to complete the tasks outlined in the
elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including knowledge of:

K.E. 1.0 current and past theories and thinking about innovation

K.E. 2.0 creative thinking techniques

K.E. 3.0 personal leadership style

K.E. 4.0 methods to promote knowledge transfer and sustainable innovative activities

K.E. 5.0 innovative practices, processes, products and services

K.E. 6.0 strategies to foster workplace culture of innovation

K.E. 7.0 systems and processes that support innovation

K.E. 8.0 barriers and risks to innovation

K.E. 9.0 internal and external factors that impact innovation

K.E. 10.0 strategies for identifying, assessing and managing risks associated with innovation

Question 1:

Outline any two (2) innovation theories and discuss their key concepts.

Fundamentally troublesome - Innovation that bridles new innovation and makes another plan
of action. Has no reasonable contenders.

Fundamentally maintaining - Improvement on an item or interaction in a current market that


offers new benefit for the client.

Steadily troublesome - A gradual improvement in innovation that prompts an emotional


disturbance.

Steadily maintaining - Small and total changes in a current item, innovation or administration.

Question 2:

Compare and contrast the theories selected in Question 1 with past innovation
theories and thinking.
One of the past major inventive speculations and thinking from the past is Schumpeter's
Concept. His hypothesis clarifies 5 sorts of advancement regions -

New items presentation


New technique for creation
New business sectors

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New wellsprings of unrefined substances

His hypotheses were presented in the mid twentieth century. From that point forward the
idea, hypotheses and considering development has advanced and a considerably more
extensive, more inventive and 'unsafe' thoughts add to current development speculations.
One of the advanced development speculations is Design Thinking. Rather than beginning
with an issue, it begins with an optimal arrangement, and it pursues tracking down
approaches to the favoured future state.

Question 3:

A. Explain how theory and thinking on innovation and creativity can contribute to
applied practice.

Development thinking can produce thoughts which are profoundly inventive and
proficient for the association. These thoughts can change practices and cycles to
considerably more successful and favoured ways. Inventive thoughts are intended to not
simply sound extraordinary in principle - it ought to be clear and down to earth to
guarantee they can be applied to current practices. Practices and systems are turning
out to be further developed and cooperative with time. Development is the scaffold which
can gain associations headway to an improved and more aggressive state in their
separate business sectors.

B. Explain the following creative thinking techniques:

The storyboarding method:

Storyboards are additionally valuable for building bunch solidarity and arrangement, and
groups that utilization them will generally find it simpler to decide. This is on the grounds that
everybody can reach out, and there's a lot more prominent degree of excitement and
responsibility.

Storyboards work since they recount to a story in a visual manner. At the point when
individuals have something to check out, it's a lot simpler for them to get ideas, decipher
outlines or graphs, and envision what's to come.

It doesn't make any difference in the event that it's a film plot or the narrative of your
organization's new item. Storyboards can change any sort of information into something
living and dynamic. They can transform the occasionally drilling cycle of arranging into an
intuitive, fun experience for all interested parties.

The most effective method to Use Storyboards for Business Planning

Making a storyboard isn't quite as hard as it could appear. In this part we give you bit by bit
directions, and afterward show you a model, with the goal that you can see the most
common way of storyboarding in real life.

1. Spread Out Your Steps

Conceptualize what you're attempting to accomplish, and afterward work out the means that
you should take to achieve your objective.

Many individuals observe that tacky notes help in this interaction. You might need to reorder
the means later, or you might recall steps that you've passed up a great opportunity at first,
and tacky notes permit you to get and modify data without any problem.

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2. Set up Your Steps

Put every one of the means that you noted down in sync 1 into the right grouping.

3. Make Your Sublevels

A few activities in a storyboard will be comprised of a progression of more modest activities.


Here, it could assist with making a sublevel storyboard for these more-involved advances.
This assists with guaranteeing that you don't miss a critical piece of the cycle.

4. Search for Problems and Obstacles

As each new advance is placed into your storyboard, urge the group to search for
"openings" and issues simultaneously. This is particularly significant between steps, since
that is the place where shocks (at the end of the day, issues) could stow away! Issues inside
the actual means are generally more straightforward to detect.

This is the reason storyboards are so important. You can see each piece of the riddle, and
how every one of the pieces collaborate - so you're bound to detect issues before they
emerge.

Six thinking hats:

The six reasoning caps is a strategy used to intensify innovative discussions, by ensuring
that a wide assortment of perspectives and thinking styles are addressed. Utilizing six jobs
(or "caps"), the system - created by Dr. Edward de Bono - permits groups to all the more
effectively structure conceptual reasoning for useful outcomes.

The six caps are:

The white cap: This is the goal cap, which centres around realities and rationale

The red cap: This is the natural cap, zeroing in on feeling and impulse

The dark cap: This is the careful cap, used to anticipate adverse results

The yellow cap: This is the hopeful cap, used to search for positive results

The green cap: This is the imaginative cap, where thoughts are plentiful and analysis spare

The blue cap: This is the cap of control, utilized for the board and association

In item advancement, the six reasoning caps are utilized to split the undertaking group into
various gatherings (the white cap bunch, the red cap bunch, and so on) Each gathering
discusses the item according to their cap's point of view, i.e., the sensible parts, the
enthusiastic parts, etc. This takes into consideration more engaged coordinated effort among
more modest gatherings that can later re-join with more compelling thoughts and objectives.

Question 4:

Discuss the impact of personal leadership style on innovation in organisations,


including how specific approaches may encourage or inhibit innovation.

Administration style can significantly affect authoritative advancement. Numerous analysts


accept the administration style applied can repress or energize advancement and its degree

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of achievement. Participative administration for instance is the point at which the pioneer
likewise goes about as an advisor. Studies have shown this type of administration expands
imagination and age of ground-breaking thoughts however the contention level is raised
also. Direct administration then again has restricted scope for development from devotees
however clear standards are set up and there is no extension for struggle, since everything
is chosen by the actual pioneer.

Question 5:

Discuss the relevance of innovation in the organisational and industry context.

Industry setting is pertinent to development since every industry is different as far as


assignments/cycles to accomplish results, individual items/administrations and logical
variables for progress. For instance, an engine vehicle industry is dependent on the
acquiring of the normal public and their way of life and simplicity of movement.

The travel industry is subject to factors like the attractions accessible nearby and the offices
accessible of inns and different lodgements. As of late Hobart has colossal potential in the
travel industry and neighbourliness industry consequently lodgings and travel services need
to execute development to guarantee they can attempt to draw in and influence clients to
their place.

Hierarchical setting is significant since every association can have totally different areas of
development. Discussing the travel industry, inns in the city can develop in regions like
offices offered and make a trip plans to and from places. Lodgements in distant regions can
zero in development endeavours on yoga retreats to local regions and maybe units with
private pools.

Question 6:

Analyse at least three (3) internal and external conditions or factors that impact on
organisational innovation.

Inward factors can be recognized through SWOT examination. Qualities might incorporate
talented labour force. Shortcomings might be restricted work movement amazing open doors
for junior staff. The open doors can then dispense the more talented staff to prepare the
lesser staff. A danger could be restricted assets. Utilizing SWOT investigation can assist with
zeroing in endeavours on improving or adjusting what is going on, so it tends to be better to
development.

Outer circumstances are more perplexing since they are past the association's control. Yet,
by and by doing an examination can set up the association to distinguish and prepare for
changes which will affect hierarchical advancement. A PESTLE investigation - Political,
Economic, Social, Technological, Legal and Environmental variables in the wake of being
recognized, assessed and completely broke down can introduce thoughts and amazing open
doors for hierarchical development.

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Question 7:

Outline and explain two (2) strategies for identifying, assessing and managing risks
associated with innovation.

Distinguishing dangers and difficulties related with advancement should be possible through
the SWOT and PESTLE examination. After they are finished as precisely as could be
expected, they can then be surveyed and assessed completely. To oversee and beat these
dangers, it is vital to distinguish which dangers can be wiped out or decreased and by what
implies.
A solitary methodology can't be utilized since every association is totally different as far as
assets, the end result or administration, open doors, and the board inclusion. Yet, basic
principles can incorporate arrangement of preparing, the right assets and the executives
backing to energize and assist with defeating dangers and obstructions to authoritative
advancement.

Question 8:

A. Discuss the four (4) phases of the innovation process.


System improvement/issue recognizable proof
The underlying advance urges representatives to decide how they could tackle the issue of
development by thinking about its set of experiences. At the end of the day, has anybody
attempted to improve previously? Assuming this is the case, would they say they were
effective? Why or no difference either way.

Then, at that point, think about the setting of the issue. How can it connect with a more
extensive task or system? Are there projects with comparative settings? Advancement is
more financially savvy when something new can be offered to a market that a business as of
now works in.

Develop an idea/arrangement
Purchaser research - as a purchaser persona or a particular interest group. What are their
requirements and what number of necessities are unfulfilled? Contrast notes and data
examined during the issue definition stage.
Statistical surveying - what is the complete addressable market (TAM)?
Examination of the opposition - including the potential for entering a market through
separation.
Hazard and practicality studies - are there any hindrances or dangers to advancement like
regulations, guidelines, or licenses?

Testing and refinement


While testing and refining the thought, it's critical to assemble iterative input from clients if
conceivable. Model input from test clients specifically is consecrated and ought to never be
ignored.

When a business is fulfilled that a development is prepared for market, techniques for its
execution, circulation, and advertising ought to be concocted.

Market delivery
Delivering an imaginative item to showcase expects that systems distinguished in the past
advance are initiated. This guarantees that the item is actually accessible in adequate

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amounts or areas. Deals staff ought to likewise be reasonably knowledgeable the shopper
advantages of the item.

B. Explain any three (3) examples of organisational innovation drivers

Client assumptions - associations need to take on their works on as indicated by what clients
need from them. The need of any business is client or consumer loyalty. In the event that for
instance clients are changing to online buys, that choice must be investigated by enormous
retailers.

Market shifts - this can happen for various reasons one being new contenders. Whenever
the iPhone and cell phones entered the market, Nokia - the first cell phones - passed on.

New regulation - on the off chance that regulations are fabricated and refreshed,
associations can be impacted and to guarantee they don't cause problems, they need to
adhere to the guidelines.

Question 9:

Discuss the relevance of innovation in the organisational and industry context.


Industry setting is pertinent to development since every industry is different as far as
assignments/cycles to accomplish results, individual items/administrations and logical
variables for progress. For instance, an engine vehicle industry is dependent on the
acquiring of the normal public and their way of life and simplicity of movement.

The travel industry is subject to factors like the attractions accessible nearby and the offices
accessible of inns and different lodgements. As of late Hobart has colossal potential in the
travel industry and neighbourliness industry consequently lodgings and travel services need
to execute development to guarantee they can attempt to draw in and influence clients to
their place.
Hierarchical setting is significant since every association can have totally different areas of
development. Discussing the travel industry, inns in the city can develop in regions like
offices offered and make a trip plan to and from places. Lodgements in distant regions can
zero in development endeavours on yoga retreats to local regions and maybe units with
private pools.

Question 10:

Give at least five (5) examples of activities that will promote and support innovative
practices in an operational context.
Include your representatives:
The truth of the matter is, in the event that individuals aren't feeling associated with your
organization, there's little motivator for them to be inventive. Ensure your representatives are
tuned in on your company's procedures and difficulties, and welcome their feedback.
Representatives who are involved from the get-go in cycles and plans will be propelled to
own them to the end. Their dynamic cooperation will fuel a greater number of thoughts than
if they learn of drives first-hand.
Make advancement significant:
Ensure every one of your workers realize that you need to hear their thoughts. Except if they
see how improving your business cycles can keep your firm serious, your endeavours at
empowering imaginative reasoning gamble crashing and burning.
Support conceptualizing:
Allocate time for novel plans to arise. For instance, put away opportunity for conceptualizing,
hold normal gathering studios and orchestrate group days out. A group associated with a

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meeting to generate new ideas is probably going to be more compelling than the amount of
its parts. You can likewise put idea boxes around the working environment, appeal for
ground-breaking plans to tackle specific issues and consistently keep your entryway open to
novel thoughts.
Train your staff:
Your staff might have the option to skip a thought around, yet be new to the abilities engaged
with inventive critical thinking. You might find instructional meetings in proper procedures, for
example, horizontal reasoning and psyche planning beneficial.
Empower change:
Broadening individuals' encounters can be an extraordinary method for igniting thoughts.
Transient work trades can acquaint a new viewpoint with work jobs. Urge individuals to take
a gander at how different organizations get things done, even those in different areas, and
consider how they can be adjusted or gotten to the next level. As indicated by the Bayt.com
"Development in the MENA Workplace" survey, 69% express that their organizations stay up
with the latest with different associations in their field and take on prescribed procedures.

Question 11:

Describe mechanisms at the system or process level that can support innovative
practices.
It is important to initially clarify the requirement for development and a few direction and tips
for potential thoughts. This obviously needs powerful pioneers or a specialized technique
ought to be utilized to guarantee staff see plainly the requirement for development. Viable
correspondence directs should be set up to guarantee correspondence among workers and
representatives and the board to move creative thoughts.
Assuming assets are required, the board ought to be strong and attempt to give the vital
assets inside the authoritative capacity. Ceaseless consolation and support ought to be
given particularly to remind workers that advancement is a persistent cycle. Additionally
regardless of how paltry a thought might be, no representative ought to be deterred from
sharing it and should be given the necessary resources to do as such without judgment.

Question 12:

Discuss nine (9) common challenges to innovation within an organisation.


1. Representatives aren't enabled to advance
Numerous chiefs dread that advancement will occupy representatives
from their everyday jobs. Therefore, around 37% of workers don't feel enabled to face
challenges or attempt novel thoughts. Inner development needs the help of initiative and
administrators to grab hold across the association.

2. Workers aren't persuaded to advance


Whenever workers are engaged, they should likewise feel inspiration to advance. Inspiration
drives like designer impetus projects, challenges, or even unstructured time can assist with
empowering workers to invest energy enhancing.

3. You're feeling the loss of an advancement system


Like any hierarchical drive, fostering a compact advancement methodology is pivotal. An
advancement technique directs the course of development and its functional execution.
Without one, development endeavours risk misalignment.

4. Development is brought together to one practical gathering


In numerous associations, advancement is the obligation of exclusively one development
challenge-1.pngfunctional gathering, as R&D or item improvement. The fantasy that one
utilitarian gathering is more fit to advance than others is an extreme impediment to the speed

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of development; every office gives an interesting point of view on the issues of clients which
can be basic for driving effective advancement.

5. Absence of cooperation
Cooperation is the way to advancement. While numerous associations comprehend the
significance of cooperation inside, joint effort remotely can be similarly significant.
Advancement biological systems unite industry accomplices, clients, and even contenders to
drive development in the business forward.

6. Absence of variety
Employing for development and hence constructing assorted groups can furnish the
association's advancement drives with an abundance of thoughts created according to
alternate points of view.

7. Current item contributions are fruitful


Numerous associations risk smugness once their present item contributions have arrived at
progress. The feeling of dread toward pulling speculation, assets or client consideration from
existing contributions can be perhaps the greatest deterrent to future advancement.
Notwithstanding, steady advancement is the way to supported achievement long haul.

8. Missed associations with clients


Profound client sympathy is the way to getting changes sought after and keeping up to date
with future patterns; it gives the association a guide for what issues to settle straightaway.
Using client criticism meetings consistently can assist with keeping your association checked
out the necessities of your clients.

9. You're estimating development inaccurately


Estimating and benchmarking development is centre to continually working on its prosperity.
In any case, conventional KPIs, similar to deals volume or income, may not give your
association the best knowledge into progress. All things being equal, take a stab at
estimating on how much novel thoughts produced, percent of time spent on advancement, or
the venture worth of development related drives.

Question 13:

List at least ten (10) potential barriers and risks to innovation within an organisation.
Dread:
The single main motivation why most associations and people don't accomplish their
maximum capacity is dread of disappointment.

Absence of initiative:
Advancement should be driven from the top.

Transient reasoning:
Most causes ascertain on a one year profit from venture. Any new advancement is relied
upon to have quick effect.

Absence of asset/limit:
Connected to thinking temporarily, noble cause are uneasy about putting resources into
something that doesn't have ensured profit from speculation and regularly adopt a
scattergun strategy to advancement or under-asset it.

Absence of cooperation:
Interior planning and designs don't constantly work with coordinated effort between groups.

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No time:
There is a reasonable spotlight on the gathering pledges at this very moment.

Absence of concentration:
On the off chance that an association isn't sure about where to centre, it can undoubtedly
invest energy on movement that won't have an effect.

Loads of thoughts, no conveyance to showcase:


Having thoughts isn't an issue for most associations, yet having significant thoughts and
advancing them can be unimaginably hard.

No unmistakable interaction:
An interaction is basic to channel and drive thoughts forward, yet just 32% of those reviewed
have a reasonable cycle set up for development.

Absence of direness:
Notwithstanding huge changes to the subsidizing scene and the monetary climate, good
cause are not answering with criticalness to change.

Question 14:

Give three (3) examples of how you could overcome challenges and barriers to
innovation in an organisation at the management level.

Make People Part of the Change


Feeling and inspiration are two things that don't appear to get sufficient thought in building
and changing associations that enhance. Such a large number of development endeavours
dismiss the past and some way or other individuals don't embrace novel thoughts.
Consequently, it is vital to make individuals part of the change from the beginning.

Join People with Purpose Driven Stories


Support channels of interchanges that permit workers and clients to share stories depicting
the association's purpose. Progressive associations frequently understand that different
organizations and people are pursuing similar major objectives and, accordingly make
networks of energy that share appreciation for those external the organization who act
towards a similar reason. It's generally more straightforward to get your novel thought
embraced when individuals are energetic about it.

Engage Middle Managers


This is one more way to deal with beat obstructions to development. In large organizations,
centre chiefs should be chosen, prepared, and engaged to rouse advancement procedures.
Sufficiently not to have pioneers select, incite and make a rousing vision for advancement.
They additionally need to suspend power which ought to go to great directors who can
execute on their inventive procedures.

Question 15:
a. In your words, explain the term of knowledge transfer
Information move is the course of scholastics participating in different exercises to pass their
insight to various crowds. Information move requires two-way trades for effective and
maintainable coordinated efforts. Information move resolves best whenever individuals
effectively look for chances to work together or meet precipitously to trade considerations. It

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likewise needs opportune and dynamic help from an organization, which necessities to give
better open access and open advancement answers for its understudies to make assets
more available and reasonable.

Information move alludes to moving thoughts starting with one substance then onto the next,
for example, from an individual to a distribution, or an individual to an examination project. In
scholarly community, information move might be a method for acquiring knowledge on
possible methodologies for research. It could likewise mean applying the information
acquired from a progression of talks and conversations to a research paper.

b. Explain any four (4) methods to promote knowledge transfer and sustainable
innovative activities
Support and Foster the Right Mindset
Albeit the Future of Work Research report uncovers that 83% of individuals feel more joyful
at work while they're sharing information and helping other people, challenges that can keep
this from happening routinely, for example, siloed mastery and different groups.
Storehouses, specifically, lead to individuals just offering information to their nearest
partners. Here are ways of cultivating a productive information sharing attitude.

Here are ways of empowering and cultivate a productive information sharing outlook.

Model the conduct from the exceptionally top. On the off chance that fundamental,
guarantee a model change from the exceptionally top partner, so everybody is sharing
information and advancing it.
Utilize characteristic inspiration and independence. Support representatives by making work
pleasant. The more representatives partake in their work, the more they'll need to trade
information.
Explore different avenues regarding learning and energize that "disappointments" are a
piece of development and achievement. Advancing this message eliminates the dread
workers might have and accounts for figuring out how to occur.
Make information sharing piece of your organization values. For the whole association to live
by this worth, it should be conveyed all inclusive. Share with new workers the significance
and how-toss of information sharing inside the association from the very beginning.
Destroy data storehouses by making information sharing simple. On the off chance that
portion of your group is utilizing one apparatus and the other half is utilizing another, there
will be a huge hole where information isn't traded between groups. You can eliminate data
storehouses by making one incorporated stage to store and share information without
making it a tedious interaction.
Celebrate colleagues who embody this attitude. Information sharing decreases rehashed
botches, assisting workers with settling on more educated choices and expanding efficiency
by 10-40%. Each of this helps representatives flourish1.

2. Make Spaces for Sharing to Happen


Numerous conventional office spaces can be inadvertently nonsensical to information
sharing. Your representatives could work in desk areas shut off from others, in any case,
workplaces can similarly be too open-plan. Also, remote work presents its own arrangement
of difficulties. With a 140% expansion in remote since 2005,2 associations need to create
virtual spaces for representatives to share information.

On the off chance that your office is brimming with work spaces (actual hindrances to
information sharing), consider making agreeable, normal regions where representatives are
urged to convey.
Assuming your office is exclusively open arrangement, consider making calm regions where
representatives can work together without interruption.

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Different plans to advance discussion incorporate adding espresso stations all through the
workplace, casual gathering room settings, or even easy-going seating in high-traffic
regions.
For telecommuters, lay out standard virtual occasions, for example, Top Learnings from this
Month that empower information trade.
Furnish representatives and telecommuters with a knowledge stage that can go past the
restrictions of video conferencing and informing applications. Insight stages can work with
information sharing, hold skill and furnish representatives with admittance to mastery any
place they're working.

3. Energize Several Forms of Knowledge Sharing


By empowering a few types of information sharing, you can likewise support representative
commitment. In a scholastic concentrate by Hsu and Wang3, information sharing outcomes
in higher fulfilment rates, greater perceivability and time-investment funds. Representative
separation loses $7 trillion annually4.

Give workers various ways of sharing their insight. This way every worker is engaged to
choose the technique they observe accommodates their character and abilities best.
Hold time all through the week for representatives to share and contribute information, along
these lines, it turns into a propensity.
Have a week after week learnings gather together with the full group so everybody can
share what they discovered that week or an intriguing asset they found.
Have customary review gatherings where staff can raise what worked out positively, issues
and possible upgrades.
Carry out an insight stage that can give admittance to continuous information and aptitude.
Change up the landscape. Have a go at executing off-site occasions and gatherings where
another scene can rouse associates.

4. Show others how it’s done


As per a report from the Society for Human Resource Management5, Fortune 500
organizations lose just shy of $32 billion per year, essentially by neglecting to share
information. To try not to be a piece of this measurement, supervisory groups ought to
likewise have their impact by cultivating a culture of information sharing and be a good
example.

Question 16:

Explain any two (2) strategies to foster a workplace culture of innovation


It is important for upper administration and senior staff to attempt to consolidate
advancement in the way of life of an association. Clarify the requirement for advancement,
its definition in that specific association's sense and potential regions for development is the
initial step. Correspondence channels for conveying this key idea are all around as
significant as the advancement thought.
Assuming mutilated or unclear messages are sent, individuals won't 'hear' the message and
won't be intrigued any longer. Clear correspondence channels need to clarify the
requirement so that development - extremely clear message and open doors might hear
others' thought process of it and their commitment. Their thoughts need to have an
unmistakable and open method for contacting senior work force - by say structures which
will be passed on. No worker who needs to put their thought forward ought to be deterred
nor be not permitted to.

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Question 17:
Answer the following questions regarding innovative practices, processes, products, and
services:

a. Explain the following types of innovation

 Product or service innovation

Product service innovation is characterized as "the turn of events and market presentation of
a new, updated, or significantly worked on great or administration." It's not just about
creating something new and unique, it's additionally about taking what's now there and
making it much better.

 Process innovation

A cycle advancement is the execution of a new or altogether further developed creation or


conveyance strategy. This remembers critical changes for strategies, hardware as well as
programming.

Explain the following common processes and practices for products and services innovation
management

 Phase-gate process

The stage door process is a procedure that is utilized to direct a task from origination to send
off. It requires a survey of each venture stage prior to continuing on to the following. In the
stage entryway survey process, explicit rules should be met to decide the progress of a
stage and the continuous feasibility of a task.

 Lean start-up

A lean start-up is a technique used to establish another organization or present another item
in the interest of a current organization. The lean start-up strategy advocates creating items
that purchasers have as of now shown they want so a market will as of now exist when the
item is sent off.

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Knowledge Evidence checklist – for assessor
This should be used by the trainer/assessor to document the learner’s skills, knowledge and

performance as relevant to the unit activity. Indicate in the table below if the learner is
deemed satisfactory (S) or not satisfactory (NS) for the activity or if reassessment is
required.

Checklist

1 Did the learner outline any two (2) innovation theories and discuss their
Yes No
key concepts?
(Please circle)
2 Did the learner compare and contrast the theories selected in Question
Yes No
1 with past innovation theories and thinking?
(Please circle)
3 A. Did the learner explain how theory and thinking on innovation
Yes No
and creativity can contribute to applied practice?
(Please circle)
B. Did the learner explain the creative thinking techniques of the
storyboarding method and six thinking that?
4 Did the learner discuss the impact of personal leadership style on
Yes No
innovation in organisations, including how specific approaches may
encourage or inhibit innovation? (Please circle)

5 Did the learner discuss the relevance of innovation in the


Yes No
organisational and industry context?
(Please circle)
6 Did the learner analyse the internal and external conditions or factors
Yes No
that impact on organisational innovation?
(Please circle)
7 Did the learner outline and explain two (2) strategies for identifying,
Yes No
assessing and managing risks associated with innovation?
(Please circle)
8 Did the learner discuss the four (4) phases of the innovation process
Yes No
and explain any three (3) examples of organisational innovation
drivers? (Please circle)
9 Did the learner discuss the relevance of innovation in the
Yes No
organisational and industry context?
(Please circle)
10 Did the learner give at least five (5) examples of activities that will
Yes No
promote and support innovative practices in an operational context?
(Please circle)
11 Did the learner describe mechanisms at the system or process level
Yes No
that can support innovative practices?
(Please circle)
12 Did the learner discuss nine (9) common challenges to innovation
Yes No
within an organisation?
(Please circle)
13 Did the learner list at least ten (10) potential barriers and risks to
?Yes No
innovation within an organisation.

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(Please circle)
14 Did the learner give three (3) examples of how they could overcome
Yes No
challenges and barriers to innovation in an organisation at the
management level? (Please circle)
15 A. Did the learner explain the term of knowledge transfer in their
Yes No
words?
B. Did the learner explain any four (4) methods to promote (Please circle)
knowledge transfer and sustainable innovative activities?
16 Did the learner explain any two (2) strategies to foster a workplace
Yes No
culture of innovation?
(Please circle)
17 A. Did the learner explain product or service innovation and
Yes No
process innovation?
B. Did the learner explain common processes and practices for (Please circle)
products and services innovation management of phase-gate
process and lean start-up?
Comments

Provide your comments here:

The learner’s performance was: Not yet satisfactory Satisfactory

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Assessment Task 2: Skills Test

Performance Criteria

1.1 Identify and analyse trends shaping organisation’s current and future thinking and practice

1.2 Identify and use techniques and tools to generate ideas and facilitate thinking

1.3 Introduce and promote creative thinking techniques

1.4 Research and analyse relevant conditions for innovation and issues that impact innovative thinking
and creativity

1.5 Research and review innovation drivers and enablers

2.1 Assess personal leadership style to confirm it models positive innovative thinking and practice

2.2 Review and refine practice that models and supports innovation

2.3 Determine and assess the requirements to promote sustainable innovative activities

2.4 Construct and implement methods to promote knowledge transfer with relevant stakeholders

2.5 Identify, evaluate and manage risks associated with innovation

3.1 Identify, introduce and promote innovative practices, processes, products and/or services according
to audience and organisational requirements
3.2 Establish ways to capture, communicate and share innovative ideas and practices

3.3 Confirm team approaches foster communication, consultation and team development for innovation

3.4 Identify, assess and provide relevant resources for innovation processes

3.5 Develop and apply strategies to foster a workplace culture that encourages innovation

3.6 Establish systems and processes that support innovation

4.1 Develop strategies where innovation is an integral part of organisational activity


4.2 Develop and monitor processes that confirm ongoing awareness of individual and collective
contributions to innovative thinking and practice

4.3 Identify and analyse potential barriers and risks to innovation and devise strategies to respond

4.4 Analyse and reflect on innovation performance as a basis for developing strategies for
improvement

4.5 Seek feedback from relevant stakeholders

4.6 Make changes to innovative thinking and practices according to feedback received

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Performance Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate the ability to complete the tasks outlined in the elements,
performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including evidence of the ability to:

P.E. 1.0 lead at least one innovative thinking and practices for an organisation or work area.

P.E. 2.0 research, review and analyse trends in thinking and emerging practices as they relate to an
organisation’s current thinking and practices

P.E. 3.0 develop capacity to lead innovative thinking and practice in an organisational context.

A Case Study of P&G AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND :


Generate innovative thinking and creativity

P&G AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND

P&G ANZ is home to iconic billion-dollar brands such as Pantene, Oral B, Olay, Vicks and
more. P&G ventured into the Australian & New Zealand market in 1985 and today, we have
offices based in Sydney and Melbourne. We have over 150 employees, each adding value to
our company through their diverse culture and skills. At P&G, you'll be a leader from Day 1,
building your enterprise skillset in a dynamic and ever-evolving environment so that you can
become a world class leader. That's because P&G gives you meaningful, challenging work
from Day 1 and our culture helps coach, develop and mentor you to offer fast-paced career
progression.

P&G Culture

P&G is dedicated to providing a diverse and inclusive environment, because the more we
reflect our consumers, the better equipped we are to understand and serve them. We strive
each day for every P&G to be valued, included, and able to perform at their peak. We win
when everyone brings their unique self to work, when we bring out the best in each other, and
when every talent is used and every voice is heard.

We aspire to build a better world for all of us, free from gender bias and with an equal voice
and representation for women and men. We are proud of our LGBTQIA+ communities and
participated in this year's Mardi Gras parade. As such, P&G ANZ are part of the 'We See
Equal' and GABLE movement. P&G welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander people and people with disability; we are committed to giving everyone an equal and
fair chance and want to see each individual thrive.

Scenario

You have been employed as the new Research and Development Manager at Procter and
Gamble’s Sydney branch. You have received notice from the head-office that a new line of hair
care products will be added.

These products will be designed for hot, dry weather conditions and need to appeal to the
Australian market.

Your team needs to come up with new fresh ideas for adding this new hair care product range,
and you will lead this project. Until you arrived, the team was not very active with regards to

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innovation; they tended to just sit back and take directions from the Head Office in the States.
You have been asked to change this behaviour and to implement innovative thinking and
practices at the Australian branch.

To do so, you need to complete the following tasks:

 Task 1: Project plan

 Task 2: Reflective journal - leadership analysis

 Task 3: Promotional plan

 Task 4: Conduct a team meeting

 Task 5: Risk assessment

 Task 6: Sustainability plan

NOTE: There will be an Annual Report (2020) and Citizenship Report (2021) of P&G
attached for further reading and guideline to complete task 1 – 7.

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Task 1: Develop a project plan
This task aims to assess the learners for the following requirements:

Your project plan for implementing innovative thinking and practices will need to include the
following:

1. Introduction
2. Body
3. Conclusion

Guideline: The learner can use the below template to complete their project draft.
The section of Body in your project plan should include:

1. Research, identify and review the key concepts in innovation thinking and
practices that are applicable to this industry.

 Techniques and tools that have been used and trends for the future.
 The innovation drivers and enablers of this industry.

2. Research, identify and analyse current innovation theories that are applicable to
this industry.

3. Select the processes, at least three (3) that you will use for introducing innovative
thinking techniques and practices and write a justification for why you have
selected these processes. Use a range of techniques and tools, keeping in mind
that you will need to foster both personal and team innovation practices.

Project Plan for the new line of hair care products of Procter and Gamble (P&G)

Purpose:

We are committed to offering items from natural cultivating with demonstrated


manageable ways to deal with contamination abhorrence and biodiversity preservation.

Beat the fear of returning dandruff with hair care products.

Techniques and tools that have been used and trends for the future.

In Hair Next-Gen Hair Shine Active from Green Chemistry + In silico Modeling, Cristiane
Pacheco of Chemyunion will talk about a 100 percent plant-based, vegetarian and
biodegradable hair sparkle dynamic, planned following the standards of green science.

In Hero Ingredients for Clean and Inclusive Hair Care, Ashlee Cannady of Aprinnova will
talk about the improvement of valid, normal and practical items with extraordinary
execution. Cannady will introduce a contextual investigation of JVN Hair, which involves
saint fixings to swap silicones and influence multifunctionality for comprehensive haircare
without settling.

In Embracing Diversity with Innovative Hair Care Solutions, Farhadi Edouard of Croda will
talk about the hug of variety in the improvement of imaginative items for different hair
surfaces.

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Innovation drivers and enablers.

Empowering agents:

Mindfulness, abilities, environment, joint effort, culture, devotion, economy, training,


strengthening, entre-/business undertaking, HR, motivating forces, information,
information the executives, the board, outlook, need, processes, methodology

Drivers:

Innovators, business visionaries, outrageous individual achievers in their fields (like


human expression, diversion, or sports), and super guides.

Three (3) processes that you will use for introducing innovative thinking techniques
and practices

Re-articulation:

The thought behind re-articulation is that individuals in a similar business or from a similar
foundation regularly utilize similar words to depict issues and thoughts. At the point when
we utilize similar words commonly, they become associated with a ton of affiliations or
compositions.

Transformation:

The manner in which we ponder difficulties, for example, making an inventive wellness
application, is frequently restricted by the guidelines or qualities we partner with the issue-
e.g., how our constructions characterize wellness. Regularly, we're not even intentionally
mindful of the standards and qualities we accept apply to an issue; therefore, testing our
suspicions is troublesome. We see as a work of art, yet outrageous, outline of that in
history books. One explanation Christopher Columbus experienced such a lot of difficulty
getting financing for his overseas journey was down to the Spanish court's (alongside
essentially every other person in 1492's) presumption that it would squander three boats
and the existences of those ready. Despite the fact that the leaders went along with
Columbus to a degree and set to the side the idea that everybody would cruise off the
edge of the world, one more supposition that is standing out.

Irregular Links:

Irregular Links is a technique that permits you to contemplate your test. It's additionally a
method for inspiring you to think bigger and connecting at a few invigorating conceivable
outcomes. The name basically says everything; all things being equal, we should get the
grand visit, to make sure we should rest assured about precisely the way that we can
apply it.

Justification for the selection of these processes.

These strategy can take you to some invaluably spectacular vantage focuses. It's
additionally a lot of tomfoolery, as you get to 'shoehorn' ideas over your main thing in need
of attention in order to perceive how well they could fit.

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Task 2: Reflective Journal – Leadership Analysis

This task aims to assess the learners for the following requirements in order to develop a
personal leadership style:

Question 1:

Refer to the annual report (2020), analyse and clearly explain one (1) type of leadership
style which is currently preferred at Procter and Gamble.

Value Based Leadership:

Values-based authority is the possibility that pioneers should draw upon their own and
others' qualities including those laid out for your association for bearing and inspiration. At its
center, values-based authority reasoning states that individuals are for the most part spurred
by values and live as indicated by these convictions

Guideline: The annual report of Procter and Gamble (2020) has been provided in the
separate file.
You may also find the link below to watch the video about 8 LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES AT
PROCTER & GAMBLE via David Taylor, Chairman of the Board, President and Chief
Executive Officer of the Company.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOB5If5UrUo

Question 2:
Complete an analysis of your personal leadership style. You must also explain why
you believe you have that type of leadership style you have identified.

Imperious Leadership Style:

My own initiative style investigates my quality to rouse others to accomplish something


advantageous. I will investigate myself through self-evaluations and polls, either backing or
reject the qualities recorded previously. Taking everything into account, I will unveil how I will
apply my discoveries to my future undertakings as a viable pioneer. My vocation way has
involved working intimately with and taking interest in individuals, the two clients and
colleagues. In fostering my administration skills, I ceaselessly sought-after additional
approaches to working on the adequacy of these cooperation. !n productive pioneer is
characterized as a followed individual by the others.

Question 3:

Identify three (3) strategies you will implement to develop your leadership style to model
positive, innovative thinking and practices.

Show Appreciation

One fundamental stage to take is to recognize the endeavours of your workers. A great
many people attempt to make a genuine living by buckling down, however the routine can
become depleting. Investing in some opportunity to show some appreciation is a simple
method for causing them to feel quite a bit better about themselves and to support their
craving to work simultaneously.

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Be a Role Model

As a pioneer, you ought to have clear thoughts of what you expect and anticipate from staff
individuals and the most effective way to direct their conduct towards living up to those
assumptions is to go about as a good example. Bossing representatives around will just get
you up until this point, so it is critical to figure out how to show others how it’s done.

Put forth Goals for Employees

Another significant administration quality, and one which ought to be covered as a feature of
your authority preparation phases, is the capacity to put forth objectives for representatives,
to give them something to run after. This should be a two way process, where both yourself
and the worker set explicit targets, which are reasonable, attainable and quantifiable.

Question 4:

Identify three (3) strategies you will use to continuously review, challenge and refine your
own style and practice in relation to modelling and supporting innovation.

Lay out A reasonable ability to know east from west


Changing societies includes evolving brains, and that takes time. Be that as it may, likewise
with any drive, an unmistakable feeling of the objective assists with speeding the excursion.

Open correspondence
Open correspondence among the board and representatives makes way for a climate of
trust. Yet, to lay out a new, seriously believing society, you can't anticipate that
representatives should venture out.

Diminish administration
While bigger associations are frequently thought to be less pioneering and creative than their
more modest partners, not the size of your organization represses development - it's the
frameworks. Organization dials back activity and is a not kidding obstacle to development.

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Task 3: Promotional Plan
This task aims to assess the learners for the following requirements:

How will you promote innovative thinking and practices in the business? Create a
promotional plan for how you will introduce this to the following audiences;

 The CEO and board of the company

 Your team in the research and development department

 Across the organisation

Instruction:

1. Use a provided template of promotional plan to outline three (3) strategies for
each audience (e.g. face-to-face meetings, team meeting, online meetings,
video, PowerPoint presentation, social media, email, newsletter, gaming,
competitions, etc.)
2. Outline how you will get your message across.
Be negative privately and positive publicly.
Don't yell.
Be specific, not general.
Speak from the heart.
Communicate often.
Be positive first.
Talk about change if it is needed.
Find something good to say to everyone.
3. Write a justification for the strategies you have chosen
These strategy can take you to some invaluably spectacular vantage focuses. It's
additionally a lot of tomfoolery, as you get to 'shoehorn' ideas over your main thing in
need of attention in order to perceive how well they could fit.

Guideline: There is an example of answer filled in the first row of the table.

Promotional Plan

The CEO and board of the company

Promotional strategies Justification (20-30 words)

1. Mail order marketing Offer free product or service in exchange of


information about personal likings.

2. Social media As most of the employees use social media platforms.

3. Online meetings Virtual meeting will engage audience without wasting


time or annoying

Research and development department

1. Road Mapping Road mapping is a helpful way in R&D department

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2. Scenario Planning By going step by step can prevent from many
problems

Across the organisation

1. Social media As most staff use some form of social media, it is a


good way to engage staff.

2. E-mails Emails are the best way to get messages across the
organizations

3. Newsletters Newsletters also very helpful across the organizations

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Task 4: Conduct a team meeting
This task aims to assess the learners for the following requirements:

Introduce and promote your creative thinking techniques to foster personal and team
innovation in a team meeting. Use the three (3) strategies you have outlined above for your
team members to get your message across.

1. Write an invitation to the meeting.

Subject: Meeting Invitation for Monday, March 14th at 9:00 AM CST/10:00 AM EST:
Team Meeting
Text of Message:
Please attend this meeting to promote our creative thinking techniques to foster
personal and team innovation and the discussion of any team updates. An agenda is
attached. Breakfast and coffee will be provided.
Date: Monday, March 14, 2022
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CST/10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
Location: Second-floor conference room

2. Create an agenda (refer to Table A) for the meeting and introduce your plan for
the implementation of innovative thinking and practices

Your agenda should encourage your team members to discuss the following points:

 The resources required for innovation to occur


 Strategies the team can implement to foster a workplace culture that
encourages innovation
 Discuss mechanisms at system and process level that can support innovation
 Ways to capture, communicate and share innovative ideas and practices

3. Conduct the meeting; four of your classmates will act as members of your
team. Get a fifth classmate to write meeting minutes. Number of group
members/team members can vary as per trainer’s judgement.

4. Collect the meeting minutes from your team member and use the minutes to
write a conclusion of the meeting outcomes. Make sure you capture your team
members ideas.

Table A: Meeting agenda template

Date/Time: March 14,2022 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CST/10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Location: Second-floor conference room

Chairperson: Umair Shahzada

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Meeting Attendees: Umair Shahzada(Manager)

Full names and roles William Fredrick(Social Media Manager)

Harry Kane(HR Manager)

Micheal Smith(R&D Manager)

Agenda Item/Topic Discussion/Outcomes Action Officer Due Date

Welcome Welcome all group members William March14,202


Fredrick 2

Social Media William March14,202


Fredrick 2
(Agenda item 1)

Topic?

Emails Discussion Harry Kane March14,202


2
(Agenda item 2)

Topic?

Michael Smith March14,202


2
(Agenda item 3) Newsletter

Topic?

Summary Overall Summary: Discuss about


strategies to get message across

Decision/s: use social media


platforms, send emails, write
newsletters

Action/s if any

Next Meeting Time: 9:00 a.m. March30,202


time/date 2

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Meeting closed at: Time: 11:00a.m March14,202
2

Minutes are a true and Approved/confirmed by whom? Sarah Taylor March14,202


accurate record of the 2
meeting

Table B: Meeting minutes template:

Minutes of Meeting: A meeting of team members was held on March14,2022

Meeting Objective: Introduce and promote your creative thinking techniques to foster
personal and team innovation

Attendees: Umair Shahzada, William Fredrick, Michael Smith, Harry Kane

Venue: Second Floor Conference Hall

Date:March14,2022

No. Points Discussed Actions Suggested Target Date

1 Social Media Will be active on all March20,2022


social media platforms

Upload posts regular

2 Email Send emails on regular March25,2022


basis to get correct and
proper response and
information

3 Newsletter Newsletter will be March18,2022


publish

Signature of attendee 1: Signature of attendee 2:

Signature of attendee 3: Signature of attendee 4:

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Task 5: Risk Assessment
This task aims to assess the learners for the following requirements:

1 How will you support innovative thinking and practices in the organisation?
Necessities to guarantee development is economical in the association is to execute and
empower inventive thoughts and thinking into arrangements and techniques of the
association. Arrangement of assets in the types of time, funds and preparing to empower
advancement can help incredibly. Components to guarantee good thoughts are caught to be
passed on to later staff who can really execute them by transforming them into feasible
undertakings/cycles should be set up. Anybody in the association can think of imaginative
thoughts.
2 What are the potential barriers and risks to innovation? Analyse the specific
conditions for innovation and issues that may impact on individual and
collective innovative thinking and creativity.
Proficient ineptitude - individuals are given assignments which they aren't the most solid or
most ideal decision for that sort of undertaking

Environmental issues - the development can affect on the climate adversely like a significant
degree of non-biodegradable waste created

Resource lacks - assets accessible and given by the board isn't the right sort or sufficiently
not

Occupational wellbeing and security - an errand can be more effective or great for
authoritative advancement however at the expense of establishing an unfortunate work
space

Product or cycle disappointments - all development is hazardous and everything dangers


can introduce a degree of disappointment or interaction breakdown
3 Devise strategies, at least three, to respond.

Guideline: Use the risk assessment template below to complete this task. In each
requirement, there will be examples for completing them.

Risk Assessment

How will you support innovative thinking and practices in the organisation? (30-50 words)

You should include the different ways they would support innovative thinking and practice in an
organisation

Potential barriers and risks to


Strategies to respond to the identified barriers
innovation (Any three)

1 Budget restrictions Sourcing free or inexpensive alternatives

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Risk Assessment

How will you support innovative thinking and practices in the organisation? (30-50 words)

You should include the different ways they would support innovative thinking and practice in an
organisation

Potential barriers and risks to


Strategies to respond to the identified barriers
innovation (Any three)

2 Employee not fully grasping the Educate staff around current and future trend
importance

3 An aversion to risk Optimising proof-of-concept process.

Task 6: Sustainability Plan


This task aims to assess the learners for the following requirements:

1. How will you ensure innovative thinking and practices in the organisation are
sustained?

2. What happens when the novelty wears off?

3. How will you evaluate and when?

4. How will you moderate when change happens?

5. What support structures you will implement?

6. Include the following in your plan;

 Your strategies to make innovation an integral part of organisational activity

 Monitoring processes to ensure ongoing awareness of individual and


collective contributions to innovative thinking and practice.

Guideline: Use a provided template below to complete the task

Sustainability plan

Strategies to make Monitoring process


innovation an integral part
of organisational activity What happens How will you How will you What support
when the novelty evaluate and moderate structures you
wears off? when? when change will

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happens? implement?

Implement new On a regular Through Peer support,


strategies to basis using regular mentoring,
Open communication reengage feedback updates with coaching etc
team
members

New Platforms Weekly Regular Browser


will be use Updates Support

Social Media

Proper Platform During Off Update Zoom Facility


days
Online Meetings

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Task 7: Reflection on Innovative Thinking and Practices
Reflect on innovative thinking and practices in consultation with the four (4) team members
and the Supervisor and make changes to the innovative practices according to the feedback
received.

This task aims to assess the learners for the following requirements:

I. Write an invitation to the meeting.


Subject: Meeting Invitation for Monday, March 29th at 9:00 AM CST/10:00
AM EST: Team Meeting
Text of Message:
Please attend this meeting to promote our creative thinking techniques to foster personal
and team innovation and the discussion of any team updates. An agenda is attached.
Breakfast and coffee will be provided.
Date: Monday, March 30, 2022
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CST/10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
Location: Second-floor conference room

II. Create an agenda for the meeting and introduce your plan for the
implementation of innovative thinking and practices

Your agenda should encourage your team members to discuss the following points;
Innovation drivers and enables

 Processes that you will use for introducing innovative thinking techniques and
practices

 Selected process

 Strategies to make innovation an integral part of organisational activity

III. Conduct the meeting; four of your classmates will act as members of your
team, and the trainer/assessor will act as the Supervisor. Get a fifth classmate
to write meeting minutes.

 Discuss the following during the meeting:


 Innovation drivers and enables

 Processes that you will use for introducing innovative thinking techniques and
practices

 Selected process

 Strategies to make innovation an integral part of organisational activity

Seek feedback from the stakeholders specified above regarding innovative thinking and practices.

IV. Use the minutes to write a conclusion of the meeting outcomes. Make sure you capture
your team members ideas.

V. Make changes to innovative thinking and practices according to feedback received.


Update the following and submit to the trainer/assessor:

 Project plan (Task 1)

Project Plan for the new line of hair care products of Procter and Gamble (P&G)

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Purpose:

We are committed to offering items from natural cultivating with demonstrated


manageable ways to deal with contamination abhorrence and biodiversity preservation.

Beat the fear of returning dandruff with hair care products.

Techniques and tools that have been used and trends for the future.

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Innovation drivers and enablers.

Empowering agents:

Mindfulness, abilities, environment, joint effort, culture, devotion, economy, training,


strengthening, entre-/business undertaking, HR, motivating forces, information,
information the executives, the board, outlook, need, processes, methodology

Drivers:

Innovators, business visionaries, outrageous individual achievers in their fields (like


human expression, diversion, or sports), and super guides.

Three (3) processes that you will use for introducing innovative thinking techniques
and practices

Re-articulation:

The thought behind re-articulation is that individuals in a similar business or from a similar
foundation regularly utilize similar words to depict issues and thoughts. At the point when
we utilize similar words commonly, they become associated with a ton of affiliations or
compositions.

Transformation:

The manner in which we ponder difficulties, for example, making an inventive wellness
application, is frequently restricted by the guidelines or qualities we partner with the issue-
e.g., how our constructions characterize wellness. Regularly, we're not even intentionally
mindful of the standards and qualities we accept apply to an issue; therefore, testing our
suspicions is troublesome. We see as a work of art, yet outrageous, outline of that in
history books. One explanation Christopher Columbus experienced such a lot of difficulty
getting financing for his overseas journey was down to the Spanish court's (alongside

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essentially every other person in 1492's) presumption that it would squander three boats
and the existences of those ready. Despite the fact that the leaders went along with
Columbus to a degree and set to the side the idea that everybody would cruise off the
edge of the world, one more supposition that is standing out.

Irregular Links:

Irregular Links is a technique that permits you to contemplate your test. It's additionally a
method for inspiring you to think bigger and connecting at a few invigorating conceivable
outcomes. The name basically says everything; all things being equal, we should get the
grand visit, to make sure we should rest assured about precisely the way that we can
apply it.

Justification for the selection of these processes.

These strategy can take you to some invaluably spectacular vantage focuses. It's
additionally a lot of tomfoolery, as you get to 'shoehorn' ideas over your main thing in need
of attention in order to perceive how well they could fit.

 Sustainability plan (Task 2)

Sustainability plan

Strategies to make Monitoring process


innovation an integral part
of organisational activity What happens How will you How will you What support
when the novelty evaluate and moderate structures you
wears off? when? when change will
happens? implement?

Implement new On a regular Through Peer support,


strategies to basis using regular mentoring,
Open communication reengage feedback updates with coaching etc
team
members

New Platforms Weekly Regular Browser


will be use Updates Support

Social Media

Proper Platform During Off Update Zoom Facility

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Online Meetings days

Table A: Meeting agenda template

Date/Time: March 30,2022 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CST/10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Location: Second-floor conference room

Chairperson: Umair Shahzada

Meeting Attendees: Umair Shahzada(Manager)

Full names and roles William Fredrick(Social Media Manager)

Harry Kane(HR Manager)

Michael Smith (R&D Manager)

Agenda Item/Topic Discussion/Outcomes Action Officer Due Date

Welcome Welcome all group members William March30,202


Fredrick 2

introducing innovative thinking William March30,202


techniques and practices Fredrick 2
(Agenda item 1)

Topic?

Selected Process Harry Kane March30,202


2
(Agenda item 2)

Topic?

Michael Smith March30,202


2
(Agenda item 3) Strategies to make innovation an
integral part

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Topic?

Summary Overall Summary: Discuss about


enablers and drivers of innovation

Discussion about introducing


innovative thinking techniques

Decision/s: Strategies to make


innovation an integral part

Action/s if any

Next Meeting Time: 9:00 a.m. April12,2022


time/date

Meeting closed at: Time: 11:00a.m March30,202


2

Minutes are a true and Approved/confirmed by whom? Sarah Taylor March30,202


accurate record of the 2
meeting

Table B: Meeting minutes template:

Minutes of Meeting: A meeting of team members was held on March14,2022

Meeting Objective: introduce plan for the implementation of innovative thinking and
practices

Attendees: Umair Shahzada, William Fredrick, Michael Smith, Harry Kane

Venue: Second-floor conference room

Date:March30,2022

No. Points Discussed Actions Suggested Target Date

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1 introducing innovative thinking Thinking techniques April10,2022
techniques and practices and education

2 Selected Process Select Appropriate April10,2022


process

3 Strategies to make innovation Planning to make April10,2022


an integral part innovation integral
part

Signature of attendee 1: Signature of attendee 2:

Signature of attendee 3: Signature of attendee 4:

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Task 1 – 7 checklist – for assessor
This should be used by the trainer/assessor to document the learner’s skills, knowledge and
performance as relevant to the unit activity. Indicate in the table below if the learner is
deemed satisfactory (S) or not satisfactory (NS) for the activity or if reassessment is
required.

Checklist

Did the learner research a range of techniques and tools to generate new ideas
Yes No
and thinking and uses:
 Meeting (Please circle)
 Brainstorming
 Discussion with team

Did the learner complete research and analyses trends shaping the
Yes No
organisation’s current and future thinking and practice:
 Comparison analysis with another new launch of the product range (Please circle)
 Discusses current practices of P&G

Did the learner introduce and promote creative thinking techniques to foster
Yes No
personal and team innovation
 Inviting team members for ideas (Please circle)
 Invites industry experts for innovative ideas

Did the learner correctly evaluate overall context for individual and collective
Yes No
innovative thinking and creativity?
(Please circle)
Did the learner research and analyse specific conditions for innovation and Yes No
issues that impact on individual and collective innovative thinking and
creativity? (Please circle)
Did the learner research and reviewe innovation drivers and enablers?
Yes No
(Please circle)
Did the learner develop a personal leadership style to model positive innovative Yes No
thinking and practice?
(Please circle)
Did the learner review challenges and refines own style and practice in relation
Yes No
to modelling and supporting innovation?
(Please circle)
Did the learner assess and determine the requirements to promote sustainable
Yes No
innovative activity for the operational context and people involved?
(Please circle)
Did the learner devise and implement the most appropriate means to promote
Yes No
knowledge transfer?
(Please circle)
Did the learner identify, evaluate and manage risks associated with innovation
Yes No
within an organisation?
(Please circle)
Did the learner manage a meeting effectively
Yes No
 Clear communication
(Please circle)
 Encouraged team for creative ideas
 Concluded the meeting with position note

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Comments

Provide your comments here:

The learner’s performance was: Not yet satisfactory Satisfactory

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Competency record to be completed by assessor
This should be used by the trainer/assessor to document the learner’s skills, knowledge and
performance as relevant to the overall unit. Indicate in the table below if the learner is
deemed competent or not yet competent for the unit or if reassessment is required.

Learner’s name Muhammad Umair Shahzada

Assessor’s name Kirat Joshi

Unit of Competence BSBSTR801


(Code and Title)

Date 13-03-2022

Has the learner completed all required assessments to a satisfactory standard? Yes No
(Please circle)

Has sufficient evidence and information been provided by the learner to prove Yes No
their competency across the entire unit?
(Please circle)

Learner is deemed: Not yet competent Competent

Comments from trainer/assessor:

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