Report 1
In this task, you are required to prepare a report on generating innovative thinking and creativity at your own workplace. Each organisation’s thinking and practice will be different depending on its core business, purpose, size, complexity and broader operating context. You need to interact with relevant stakeholders and use a range of techniques and tools to generate innovative thinking and creativity.

Instructions to students:

1. You are required to interact and communicate with a range of people at your workplace.

2. You need to identify suitable professionals who can give you honest feedback and support on innovation.

3. You may decide to interview a range of stakeholders from diverse groups including technical and subject matter experts, juniors, seniors, peers and other people whom you perceive to help you in generating new ideas and thinking.

4. You can plan a single/ multiple brainstorming session with all stakeholders together or a series of sessions/one to one meetings.

5. You must prepare a questionnaire/ agenda for the meeting.

6. You must take prior appointment with the people identified by you and ensure to perform this task professionally in a simulated environment or actual workplace.

7. You must then analyse the ideas and prepare a report on generating innovative thinking and creativity. 8. The word-limit for the report is 1200-1500 words.

Steps to complete this task:

 Discuss with your colleagues, supervisors and other persons of significance and seek their input to enable you to: o Generate new ideas and thinking at your workplace o Understand organisation’s current and future thinking and practice o Promote creative thinking techniques to foster personal and team innovation

 You need to provide: o Evidence of consultation including:

 Name and position of personnel involved

 Date of meeting/ session

 Points discussed in the session

 Signature of attendees

 With the information gathered above, use a range of techniques and tools to identify further ideas for innovation.

 Evaluate the innovative thinking and creativity ideas for their overall context to your workplace.

 Identify the driver, enablers and the conditions for innovation impacting innovative thinking and creativity

.  Finalise at least one (1) innovative practice that you will implement at your workplace.   

Report 2:
Instructions to students:

1. This task is in continuation to assessment Task 2 – Report 1.

2. You are required to implement the innovative idea identified by you in the previous task.

3. You must write a journal to cover the process followed by you to implement the innovative idea.

4. You must include real-life work experiences/ examples (wherever possible) to demonstrate your capability to lead innovative practices.

5. You must write your journal by following S.T.A.R (Situation Task Action Result) method for each example used by you

6. The word-limit for the journal is 1200-1500 words.

Steps to complete this task:

Identify the relevant stakeholders for implementing the innovation and determine their requirements in operational context.

Introduce your innovation to the relevant stakeholders using an appropriate method such as meeting, brainstorming session, e-mail, etc.

Promote the team working approach which supports open communication and consultation to share innovative ideas and practices.

Make a list of the resources required to implement the innovative idea and specify how you assessed and arranged these resources?

Perform “risk assessment” and take appropriate measures to mitigate risks.

Identify and establish mechanisms at system and process level to support innovation

You need to provide: o A copy of the completed journal

• Evidence of the validity of the examples, including:
• Name and position of personnel involved in the examples
• Name of the organisation where incident happened
• Date of incident o Signature of the personnel or witness of the incident (Include name and position)

Report 3:
Instructions to students:

1. This task is in continuation to assessment Task 2 – Report 1 and must be done while implementing innovative practice at the workplace as per Task 2 – Report 2.

2. This task is an individual work exercise.

3. You are required to review your own leadership style by evaluating your own actions during the implementation of innovative practices

4. You must include real-life work experiences/ examples (wherever possible) to demonstrate your capability to lead innovative practices.

5. You must write your responses in Appendix A or other suitable format and also prepare a report covering the given criteria.

Steps to complete this task:

Over the course of implementing the innovation for this assessment task, make entries into a journal, diary or specifically designed table such as the example appearing in Appendix B. As opportunities arise, record the incident, emotions experienced and particularly your reactions and resulting actions and how these may have modelled innovative thinking and supported its implementation.

Perform self-assessment of your leadership style for the following attributes in 250-350 words:

• Strengths of present leadership style
• Weaknesses of present leadership style
• Corrective/ improvement actions which you will take to adjust the leadership style

You need to provide:

o A copy of the completed report o Evidence of the validity of the examples, including:

Name and position of personnel involved in the examples

Name of the organisation where incident happened

Date of incident

Signature of the personnel or witness of the incident (Include name and position

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