Elements and Performance Criteria
- Organise team to maximise innovation.
- Analyse the performance requirements for the team.
- Gather information about team members.
- Acknowledge strengths and weaknesses of individual team members.
- Assign team roles to ensure a match between work requirements and individual team members’ capacities.
- Select team members to foster cross-fertilisation of ideas.
- Organise work assignments within team to facilitate innovative work practices.
- Provide guidance and coaching to team members on innovation in the workplace.
- Encourage team members to work collaboratively on work assignments.
- Encourage team members to share work information, knowledge and experiences in their day-to-day work.
- Encourage team members to seek external stimuli and knowledge and to set up and maintain networks.
- Provide appropriate guidance to team members on the use of innovation in the workplace.
- Coach team members to ensure they have the enabling skills to implement innovation in the workplace.
- Provide a model of innovative work practice.
- Share case studies and examples of the use and benefits of innovative work practices within teams with team members.
- Ensure examples of the way innovative skills can be applied in the workplace are provided by the team leader.
- Demonstrate the qualities of an effective team member, as team leader in working with the team.
- Promote and reinforce the value placed by the organisation on innovation.
- Monitor the team’s ongoing use of innovative work practices.
- Actively encourage team members to reflect on team activities and opportunities for improvement and innovation.
- Evaluate team activities based on feedback from team members, management, clients and other interested people.
- Receive suggestions for work improvements in a positive manner, and act on them where appropriate.
- Review and record evidence of the application of innovative work skills, and present findings as appropriate.
- Review the innovation process and discuss and constructively analyse both positive and negative outcomes.
- Provide feedback on the use of innovative work skills.