BSBCRT511 Develop Critical Thinking in Others

ASSESSMENT TASK

This assessment task is a portfolio of evidence, and it is designed to assess your ability to develop critical and creative thinking schools in others within a workplace context

Students are required to:

• Select a Scenario from the document BSBCRT511_T1_Scenarios

You can choose the Bounce Fitness Gym Scenario or choose one based on personal experience or interest

The assessment comprises of the following sections:

SECTION 1: Assess team and individual critical and creative thinking skills

SECTION 2: Implement a micro session and provide feedback

SECTION 3: Overview organisational structure to further facilitate critical and creative thinking

SECTION 1 – ASSESS TEAM AND INDIVIDUAL THINKING SKILLS

In this section, you are required to:

• Introduce your organisation and identify potential formal and informal learning opportunities.
• Identify training/learning needs of individuals and develop a learning plan.

1. Organisation Overview – Critical and Creative Thinking Concepts and Learning

Address all the following:

• Briefly introduce your organisation, indicating key business objectives and direction
• Provide examples of how employees are required to apply critical and creative thinking in the workplace
• Identify potential formal and informal learning opportunities for developing critical and creative thinking

2. Assess Learning Needs that align to organisational objectives

Address all the following:

• Discuss methods for gathering data for identifying knowledge gaps in your work Teams
• Develop a questionnaire for identifying the learning gaps of team members that is relevant to your workplace

(Minimum 5 Questions)

3. Team and Individual Results

Address all the following:

• Present a summary or table that summarises the results of your inquiry. Your results should be both quantitative and qualitative.

4. Learning plan

Address the following:

• Develop a team learning plan suitable to address the required learning outcomes and address the identified learning needs.
• Include both formal and informal learning opportunities
• Develop individual learning plans to address any specific knowledge gap among individual team members that cannot be addressed by a team learning plan.
• Add further rows if required

Team
Knowledge Gap	Type of Learning Opportunity	Learning Opportunity	Planned Implementation Date	Expected Learning Outcome
1.
2.
3.
4.

Individual
Knowledge Gap	Type of Learning Opportunity	Learning Opportunity	Planned Implementation Date	Expected Learning Outcome
5.

Section 2 – FACILITATE A MICRO LEARNING SESSION

In this section, you are required to develop strategies and tools to facilitate and promote learning in the workplace.

1. Micro Session Plan

Choose a micro activity (10-12 minute) designed to foster critical and/or creative thinking

• Complete the plan to prepare for the facilitation
• Ensure that team members are encouraged to share their skills and knowledge
• Deliver the activity – ideally with 3-4 participants (Week 4 In class event)

Session Plan

Name:		Date:
Session Title:		Session Length: Identify target overall duration of the session
Participants:
Learning Objective:
Introduction				Time
Grab Attention Strategy to secure engagement
Assumed Prior Knowledge

Body		Time
Content Outline Outline here the planned content of the session
Conclusion		Time
Summarise Outline at least three to five key points of your discussion.

2. Feedback

Reflect on the feedback you gave in the session. Summarise how successful you were at giving feedback in this instance and discuss your views for the best strategies for giving constructive feedback in the workplace

Section 3 – ANALYSE ORGANISATIONAL SYSTEMS

1. Organisational System Analysis Report

Address the following:

• Access and review Business Objectives
• Identify one business objective for a chosen system / procedure (For example, Performance Management System or Customer Relations Management System)
• Briefly explain the relevance of the identified business objectives to chosen system
• Identify barriers in the system/ procedure to both critical (1) and creative (2) thinking
• Discuss how the system can be improved to encourage creative or critical thinking

Business Objectives
System	Relevant Business Objective	Relevance of Business Objective to the System
System/Procedure        ______________________________________
Identify  barriers or gaps for critical (1) or creative (2) thinking methods
1. 2.
How the system/procedure can be improved to enable critical  and/or creative thinking
1.

2. Develop Recommendations for Future Learning Arrangements

Address the following:

• Review your organisation’s Policy documents and relevant Industry legislation
• Considering the outcome of your leaning plan activities, identify areas for future improvements
• Explain how a particular policy (1), and legislation (2) is relevant to your recommendation

Area for Improvement for Future Opportunities	RELEVANT	Relevance of Legislation/ Policy to the Recommendation
1.	POLICY:
2.	LEGISLATION: