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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Support collaborative opportunities to enhance professional practice
   • Establish and maintain sustainable productive creative relationships
   • Cultivate collaborative communities and partnerships based on the potential benefits for self and others
   • Identify and address, where practicable, factors that inhibit the potential to collaborate effectively
   • Identify and pursue opportunities for collaboration
2. Establish collaborative projects
   • Identify an agreed collaborative project and contribute to establishing project objectives and parameters
   • Agree on ways of working that acknowledge the different contributions of those involved
   • Acknowledge and integrate ethical approaches to questions of intellectual property for creative content
   • Identify and respond to professional and practical project considerations
   • Organise and allocate work activities collaboratively in a cost-effective and equitable manner with clear, agreed outcomes
3. Realise collaborative projects
   • Contribute and share own technical and creative expertise, from idea generation to final project realisation
   • Identify and act on opportunities to extend own expertise and learn from others as collaborative project progresses
   • Contribute to monitoring project progress against agreed objectives, demonstrating a high standard of personal engagement and professionalism in the collaborative effort
   • Challenge, test and share ideas with project team in a positive and constructive manner
   • Identify technical, creative and organisational challenges and contribute to their resolution by suggesting new ideas and solutions
   • Meet established personal responsibilities in creative work and overall project
4. Evaluate collaborative projects
   • Engage in an open process of review and evaluation with others involved in projects
   • Evaluate nature and level of own contribution to collaborative effort and effectiveness of professional relationships with others
   • Identify and seek opportunities to refine and expand own expertise

Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to:

identify and take part in professional communities, networks and groups

analyse the potential benefits of collaborative opportunities to own body of creative work

participate in the technical, creative and organisational aspects of a collaborative project to realise creative work of a professional standard, including:

contributing to agreed objectives and parameters

contributing technical, creative and organisational expertise in line with agreed team approaches

modelling due diligence and professionalism

establishing and maintaining sustainable professional relationships

evaluating and resolving complex project problems of a technical, creative or organisational nature

use the collaborative process as a tool in developing own creative and professional expertise.

Note: If a specific volume or frequency is not stated, then evidence must be provided at least once.

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Knowledge Evidence

To complete the unit requirements safely and effectively, the individual must:

detail the types of face-to-face and virtual communities, networks and groups relevant to own professional creative practice

summarise the benefits of collaboration for individuals, businesses and communities, including the value of collaboration as a problem-solving tool

explain behaviours and factors that support effective professional relationships in a collaborative process, particularly in a creative context

summarise typical problems encountered in a collaborative process and how they may be avoided or resolved

explain essential project management processes and procedures that apply to any project

describe ways of evaluating projects in terms of their success as collaborative undertakings, including benefits of alternative evaluation approaches:

formal reporting

professional critique

reviewing peer feedback

explain intellectual property issues that affect the development of creative content, including the concept of shared intellectual property.

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