Assessor Resource
CUVICS05B
Lead a team to foster innovation
Assessment tool
Version 1.0
Issue Date: March 2024
This competency standard relates to employees working within a supervisory or management position in any sector of the cultural industries. This may include areas such as galleries, museums, performance spaces, manager of artist-run co-operative, community workshops in remote areas, music studio, film studio, special event organisers, fashion design companies and so on. This may include managing a team within an office, at a temporary site office, studio, back stage and/or front of stage crews, outdoor photoshoot/film location, convention centre, managing an events team, tour crew, a sales team within a marketing department and so on. Examples of how this unit works in practice can be found in the Supporting Information section of the Training Package.
This competency standard covers the skills and knowledge required to lead a workplace team in ways that foster innovative work practices in any sector of the cultural industries. It covers the skills that are needed by individuals who are leading work teams on individual projects or in work in general.
The skills cover the requirements for encouraging innovation within individual team members as well as a team as a whole. They include how to put a team together and keep it working well, how to structure work and monitor its progress, how to ensure that the staff have the information and skills they need and how to apply innovation @ work skills to the leadership role.
No licensing, legislative, regulatory or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of endorsement.
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