Elements and Performance Criteria
- Provide a model of innovative practice
- The value of innovation to team effectiveness is promoted and reinforced within the organisation through modelling and application
- Research is undertaken to extend knowledge and produce examples of the use and benefits of innovative work practices
- Examples of how innovation at work skills can be applied in a team context are based on innovation
- Organise teams to maximise innovation
- The performance requirements for a specific work activity/project/function are analysed
- Information is gathered about potential team members and identified strengths and weaknesses are acknowledged
- Team members are selected to create the right mix of expertise, skills, knowledge to support an innovative approach to the work activity/project/ function
- Team roles are assigned to ensure a match between work requirements and individual team members' capacities
- Organise work to facilitate innovative practices
- The purpose of the team and its responsibilities are communicated in ways that encourage and reinforce team-based innovation
- Work is organised to enable the application of innovation at work skills, including time
- Work is allocated to ensure the maximum use of individual and team skills/knowledge and transfer of skills/knowledge to others
- Provide guidance and monitor innovation at work practices
- Appropriate guidance is provided to team members on the use of innovation at work skills
- Team members are encouraged to work collaboratively on teamwork activities which use innovation at work skills
- Team members are actively encouraged to reflect on team activities and to identify opportunities for improvement and innovation
- Suggested improvements are positively received and acted upon, where appropriate
- Review the use of innovation at work skills in a team environment
- The application of innovation at work skills is reviewed and outcomes are recorded and presented, as appropriate
- Team members are debriefed and feedback from team members is sought to inform future planning
- Innovations are communicated in appropriate ways
- Barriers to using innovation at work skills are documented and recommendations for changes to organisational systems, policies and procedures are made where relevant and appropriate