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Title / Lead a team to achieve an objective
Level / 4 / Credits / 5
Purpose / People credited with this unit standard are able to: plan and prepare team activities, and negotiate and facilitate team processes to achieve an objective, and evaluate own performance.
This unit standard is for people who lead teams regularly.
Classification / Communication Skills > Interpersonal Communications
Available grade / Achieved
Explanatory notes
1 All activities must comply with – policies, procedures, and requirements of the organisations involved; the ethical codes of relevant professional bodies; any relevant statutory and regulatory requirements.
2 Evidence supplied for assessment against this standard must be generated in the workplace, or in a simulated situation that requires performance equivalent to that required in the workplace.
3 Award of credit for this unit standard requires the team’s objective to be achieved.
4 Definitions
Meeting in this unit standard refers to any occasion when the team assembles to work toward an objective, and does not require the team to follow formal meeting procedures.
A team is any temporary or permanent group of at least three people with a shared purpose or objective. For this unit standard, the team does not require formal structures or reporting processes.
5 This unit standard is one of a sequence about working as part of a group/team:
Unit 3503, Participate and communicate in a team or group to complete a routine task (Level 1)
Unit 9677, Participate in a team or group which has an objective (Level 2)
Unit 9681, Contribute within a team or group which has an objective (Level 3)
Unit 11101, Collaborate within a team or group which has an objective (Level 4)
Unit 21335, Lead a team to achieve an objective (Level 4)
Unit 21336, Lead a team to achieve a complex objective (Level 5).
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Plan and prepare team activities to achieve an objective.
Evidence requirements
1.1 The objectives for the team are stated clearly and concisely.
1.2 Supporting information required by the team is complete and accurate.
Range supporting information – any documented information that would enhance understanding by providing background information and/or setting out options and criteria for consideration.
Outcome 2
Negotiate team processes to achieve an objective.
Evidence requirements
2.1 Terms of reference and ground-rules are agreed with team members and the organisation.
2.2 Activities required to achieve the objective are agreed.
Range activities are achievable, specific, measurable, and time-based.
2.3 Tasks, roles, responsibilities and/or accountabilities are established to achieve the objective.
Outcome 3
Facilitate team processes to achieve an objective.
Evidence requirements
3.1 Team progress towards the objective is monitored and reviewed in consultation with team members to ensure that the objective is met.
3.2 Strategies to achieve the objective are discussed and agreed.
3.3 Team meetings are planned, focused on the objectives, summarised, and reported in accordance with the requirements of the organisation.
Outcome 4
Evaluate own performance.
Evidence requirements
4.1 Own performance as leader is evaluated in terms of achievement of the objective, and team or other feedback.
4.2 Reflective self-evaluation of performance shows understanding of practices and/or ideas that could be applicable to other teams.
Replacement information / This unit standard was replaced by unit standard 30362.This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by the last date for assessment set out below.
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process / Version / Date / Last Date for Assessment /Registration / 1 / 18 December 2006 / 31 December 2014
Rollover / 2 / 17 November 2011 / 31 December 2016
Review / 3 / 24 October 2014 / 31 December 2020
Review / 4 / 20 July 2017 / 31 December 2020
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference / 0023
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA, before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR). The CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors and assessors, and special resource requirements.
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