Provide general advice on financial products and services

Formats and tools

Unit Description
Reconstruct the unit from the xml and display it as an HTML page.
Assessment Tool
an assessor resource that builds a framework for writing an assessment tool
Assessment Template
generate a spreadsheet for marking this unit in a classroom environment. Put student names in the top row and check them off as they demonstrate competenece for each of the unit's elements and performance criteria.
Assessment Matrix
a slightly different format than the assessment template. A spreadsheet with unit names, elements and performance criteria in separate columns. Put assessment names in column headings to track which performance criteria each one covers. Good for ensuring that you've covered every one of the performance criteria with your assessment instrument (all assessement tools together).
Wiki Markup
mark up the unit in a wiki markup codes, ready to copy and paste into a wiki page. The output will work in most wikis but is designed to work particularly well as a Wikiversity learning project.
Evidence Guide
create an evidence guide for workplace assessment and RPL applicants
Competency Mapping Template
Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners. A template for developing assessments for a unit, which will help you to create valid, fair and reliable assessments for the unit, ready to give to trainers and students
Observation Checklist
create an observation checklist for workplace assessment and RPL applicants. This is similar to the evidence guide above, but a little shorter and friendlier on your printer. You will also need to create a seperate Assessor Marking Guide for guidelines on gathering evidence and a list of key points for each activity observed using the unit's range statement, required skills and evidence required (see the unit's html page for details)

Self Assessment Survey
A form for students to assess thier current skill levels against each of the unit's performance criteria. Cut and paste into a web document or print and distribute in hard copy.
Moodle Outcomes
Create a csv file of the unit's performance criteria to import into a moodle course as outcomes, ready to associate with each of your assignments. Here's a quick 'how to' for importing these into moodle 2.x
Registered Training Organisations
Trying to find someone to train or assess you? This link lists all the RTOs that are currently registered to deliver FNSIAD301, 'Provide general advice on financial products and services'.
Google Links
links to google searches, with filtering in place to maximise the usefulness of the returned results
Books
Reference books for 'Provide general advice on financial products and services' on fishpond.com.au. This online store has a huge range of books, pretty reasonable prices, free delivery in Australia *and* they give a small commission to ntisthis.com for every purchase, so go nuts :)


Elements and Performance Criteria

ELEMENT

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA

Elements describe the essential outcomes.

Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.

1. Establish relationship with customers

1.1 Attend to customer enquiries in a timely and courteous manner

1.2 Demonstrate active listening skills in dealing with customer enquiries and provide help and assistance to ensure full and accurate completion of initial documentation, where required

2. Identify customer needs

2.1 Examine, where applicable, initial documentation to determine products and services of interest to customers

2.2 Undertake clear and unambiguous communication with customers to determine and clarify products and services of interest to them

2.3 Inform customers clearly of the regulatory restrictions on providing financial products advice

2.4 Request information from customers to determine their needs, ensuring that information gathered is for the purposes of provision of general advice only

2.5 Identify requests for information, advice, products or services that fall outside the organisation’s scope of operation and inform customers where such information, advice, products or services can be obtained, where possible

2.6 Explain the range of products and services available to customers in a clear and unambiguous way, avoiding jargon and in language appropriate to receiver

3. Identify general advice boundaries of product and service

3.1 Analyse the range of products and services of interest to customers to determine their categorisation is general advice, in line with legislation and organisational policy

3.2 Refer customers to appropriate specialist personnel where requested advice is deemed to fall outside category of general advice

4. Provide general advice to customers

4.1 Assist customers to make informed choices on products and services using relevant documentation

4.2 Provide general advice to customers in strict accordance with regulatory restrictions, organisational policy and organisational tools

4.3 Demonstrate product knowledge appropriate for service or advice offered when providing advice to customers

4.4 Explain and discuss recommendations with customers in a clear and unambiguous way


Qualifications and Skillsets

FNSIAD301 appears in the following qualifications:

  • FNS30510 - Certificate III in General Insurance
  • FNS30111 - Certificate III in Financial Services
  • FNS30511 - Certificate III in General Insurance
  • FNS30115 - Certificate III in Financial Services
  • FNS30515 - Certificate III in General Insurance