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BSBCRT511 Develop critical thinking in others
Assessment Task 01 – Project portfolio
Task summary
In this task, you are required to demonstrate your skills and knowledge by working through
several activities and submitting the relevant part of a project portfolio.
You will need access to:
a suitable place to complete activities that replicates a business environment including a
meeting space and computer and internet access
your learning resources and other information for reference
Project Portfolio template
Simulation Pack (if you need a case study).
Ensure that you:
comply with the due date for assessment which your assessor will provide
adhere with your RTO’s submission guidelines
answer all questions completely and correctly
submit work which is original and, where necessary, properly referenced
avoid sharing your answers with other students.
Crown Institute of Business and Technology Pty Ltd ABN 86 116 018 412 National Provider No: 91371 CRICOS Provider Code: 02870D
Sydney CBD Campus: Level 5, 303 Pitt St Sydney NSW 2000 P 02 8959 6340 F 02 9955 3888
Sydney CBD Campus: Level 11, 307 Pitt St Sydney NSW 2000 P 02 8034 6431
Canberra Campus: Suite 1, Level 4, 40 Cameron Avenue, Belconnen, ACT 2617 P 02 6253 5184
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Activities
Complete the following activities:
1. Carefully read the following:
This project requires you to develop critical and creative thinking in others by:
researching critical and creative thinking as it relates to learning and the
workplace
identifying a team and individuals under your leadership who require
coaching in critical and creative thinking
assessing individual and team critical thinking skills
facilitating formal and informal learning opportunities in critical thinking
providing an opportunity for team members to apply critical thinking to a
workplace problem
developing recommendations for improvement in critical thinking learning
opportunities.
Vocational education and training is all about gaining and developing practical
skills that are industry relevant and that can help you to succeed in your chosen
career. For this reason, we are giving you the choice to base this project on your
own business, one you work in or a familiar with, or you can use the case study
provided. This will mean that you are applying your knowledge and skills in a
relevant, practical, and meaningful way to your own situation!
The case study has been designed to cover a wide range of work areas. If you are
using the case study, select a work area and team relevant to your field of interest
(e.g., IT team, Sales team, Manufacturing team etc.)
It is important that you are able to access enough information for your chosen
business in order to be able to do your assessment. As a minimum this should
include organisational policies and procedures related to workplace training and
those that address features of critical thinking.
You will need to communicate with people who work for, or are involved, in this
business several times. Your communication may be either directly with actual
staff members or fellow students/your assessor can play the roles of relevant
people/parties. Communication can be in any appropriate format (e.g., face to
face, video conference, email) as long as it meets the requirements outlined in the
Crown Institute of Business and Technology Pty Ltd ABN 86 116 018 412 National Provider No: 91371 CRICOS Provider Code: 02870D
Sydney CBD Campus: Level 5, 303 Pitt St Sydney NSW 2000 P 02 8959 6340 F 02 9955 3888
Sydney CBD Campus: Level 11, 307 Pitt St Sydney NSW 2000 P 02 8034 6431
Canberra Campus: Suite 1, Level 4, 40 Cameron Avenue, Belconnen, ACT 2617 P 02 6253 5184
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Project Portfolio.
You will be collecting evidence for this unit in a Project Portfolio. The steps you
need to take are outlined below.
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Sydney CBD Campus: Level 5, 303 Pitt St Sydney NSW 2000 P 02 8959 6340 F 02 9955 3888
Sydney CBD Campus: Level 11, 307 Pitt St Sydney NSW 2000 P 02 8034 6431
Canberra Campus: Suite 1, Level 4, 40 Cameron Avenue, Belconnen, ACT 2617 P 02 6253 5184
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2. Preparation
Make sure you are familiar with the organisation you are basing this assessment
on and have read through the necessary background information. For the case
study business, this is all of the documents included in the Simulation Pack. If it’s
your own business or a business where you are working or are familiar with, have
your business or case study approved by your assessor.
Choose a suitable leadership role that you’ll assume for this assessment and
identify an appropriate team and individual job role(s) within the team that
require coaching in critical thinking. It’s important that critical thinking forms an
important part of your chosen team/job role(s).
Complete Page 3 of your Project Portfolio for this unit.
Whether you’re using an approved business or the case study business, your
assessor must approve your chosen job role and the team and job roles of
individual team members who require coaching in critical thinking.
Read through the requirements of Section 1 your Project Portfolio.
3. Plan and assess critical and creative thinking
You are now required to complete Section 1 of your Project Portfolio.
To complete Section 1, you need to:
Research critical and creative thinking characteristics, models, features, skills,
techniques, applications and learning environments.
Provide an overview of your chosen organisation and its products, services
and programs.
Identify how critical and creative thinking is supported and inhibited in the
organisation.
Plan how to articulate key features of critical and creative thinking concepts
to your team at an upcoming team meeting (step 4).
Develop questions to identify critical and creative thinking knowledge gaps in
your chosen team and individual team members at an upcoming team
meeting (step 4).
Plan how you will approach teamwork and communication at the upcoming
meeting to be inclusive and collaborative.
Make sure you have answered all questions in Section 1. Submit to your assessor
for review.
You are also required to attach certain documents as part of your evidence –
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Sydney CBD Campus: Level 5, 303 Pitt St Sydney NSW 2000 P 02 8959 6340 F 02 9955 3888
Sydney CBD Campus: Level 11, 307 Pitt St Sydney NSW 2000 P 02 8034 6431
Canberra Campus: Suite 1, Level 4, 40 Cameron Avenue, Belconnen, ACT 2617 P 02 6253 5184
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review the documents you need to attach as outlined in your in Section 1 of the
Project Portfolio and make sure you attach these upon submission.
You will use the work done in this section of the Portfolio to guide a team meeting
in the next activity. In preparation, read through step 4.
Arrange a meeting with your team to determine team and individual team
member’s critical and creative thinking knowledge gaps. Make sure you have your
questions ready to use at the meeting and are familiar with the teamwork tools
and techniques identified in Section 1 of your Project Portfolio.
This meeting may take place with actual people who work for/are associated with
your chosen business. Alternatively, classmates or your assessor may play the role
of one or more team members.
This can either be viewed in person by your assessor or you may like to video
record the session for your assessor to watch later. Your assessor can provide you
with more details at this step. Make sure you follow the instructions below and
meet the timeframes allocated. If this session is not viewed in person by your
assessor, you will attach proof of the meeting to Section 2 of your Project
Portfolio.
4. Team meeting
Consult with your team as a whole, and with individual team member(s) to:
Articulate key features of critical and creative thinking concepts.
Identify at least two critical and creative thinking knowledge gaps for your
team and at least two critical and creative thinking knowledge gaps for at
least one individual team member.
Establish your team’s views and experience of the organisation’s approach to
critical thinking.
Collaborate with team members to identify workplace problems that fall
within the scope of the team and require further critical thinking.
Negotiate with team members which problem is the most pressing and
relevant. The team members will apply critical thinking to this problem later
on in the assessment.
This meeting should take 20 minutes.
As you engage with team members, you are required to demonstrate effective
communication and teamwork skills including:
speaking clearly and persuasively to communicate your ideas and thoughts
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Sydney CBD Campus: Level 5, 303 Pitt St Sydney NSW 2000 P 02 8959 6340 F 02 9955 3888
Sydney CBD Campus: Level 11, 307 Pitt St Sydney NSW 2000 P 02 8034 6431
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asking questions and listening to seek the views and opinions of all team
members
using appropriate language suitable to the team dynamics.
As you interact, establish connections and understanding with each team member
and make sure you collaborate and negotiate using techniques that includes and
considers all participants. You will be assessed on this.
Assessment Task 1: Checklist
Student’s name: Student’s ID:
Did the student:
Completed
successfully? Comments
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Plan and assess critical and creative
thinking by:
Accessing at least four different
information sources to research
critical and creative thinking and
present the information as a
written report using appropriate
language and referencing,
including:
o a summary of at least three
models of critical and creative
thinking
o at least five characteristics of
critical and creative thinking
o features of critical thinking
skills such as analysis,
synthesis and evaluation
o formal and informal
organisational learning
environments and systems
o best practice approaches for
Crown Institute of Business and Technology Pty Ltd ABN 86 116 018 412 National Provider No: 91371 CRICOS Provider Code: 02870D
Sydney CBD Campus: Level 5, 303 Pitt St Sydney NSW 2000 P 02 8959 6340 F 02 9955 3888
Sydney CBD Campus: Level 11, 307 Pitt St Sydney NSW 2000 P 02 8034 6431
Canberra Campus: Suite 1, Level 4, 40 Cameron Avenue, Belconnen, ACT 2617 P 02 6253 5184
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instructing teams and
individuals in critical thinking
o examples of how the critical
thinking can be applied in the
workplace
o examples of what a safe
critical and creative work
environment includes.
Identifying how critical thinking is
an important part of the
organisation, including:
o the vision and objectives of
the organisation as they relate
to critical thinking
o assessment of the work
environment as it relates to
critical and creative thinking,
including:
systems, policies and
procedures supporting
critical thinking
barriers to critical thinking
in existing organisational
systems
o legislative requirements
related to critical thinking and
training
o how critical thinking is
required as part of the work
done by their chosen team
o list of critical thinking skills
required for job roles
performed by the individual
team members
Developing at least five questions
to identify critical and creative
thinking knowledge gaps in your
chosen team and the individual
Crown Institute of Business and Technology Pty Ltd ABN 86 116 018 412 National Provider No: 91371 CRICOS Provider Code: 02870D
Sydney CBD Campus: Level 5, 303 Pitt St Sydney NSW 2000 P 02 8959 6340 F 02 9955 3888
Sydney CBD Campus: Level 11, 307 Pitt St Sydney NSW 2000 P 02 8034 6431
Canberra Campus: Suite 1, Level 4, 40 Cameron Avenue, Belconnen, ACT 2617 P 02 6253 5184
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team member(s)
Planning for teamwork, including:
o the diverse requirements of
their team
o how they plan to establish
connections and
understanding with team
members
o techniques to negotiate,
influence and elicit the views
of your team.
Crown Institute of Business and Technology Pty Ltd ABN 86 116 018 412 National Provider No: 91371 CRICOS Provider Code: 02870D
Sydney CBD Campus: Level 5, 303 Pitt St Sydney NSW 2000 P 02 8959 6340 F 02 9955 3888
Sydney CBD Campus: Level 11, 307 Pitt St Sydney NSW 2000 P 02 8034 6431
Canberra Campus: Suite 1, Level 4, 40 Cameron Avenue, Belconnen, ACT 2617 P 02 6253 5184
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Support critical and creative thinking by:
Meeting with their team to:
o articulate key features of
critical and creative thinking
concepts to the relevant team
o identify at least two critical
and creative thinking
knowledge gaps for their team
and at least two critical and
creative thinking knowledge
gaps for at least one individual
team member.
o establish their team’s views
and experience of the
organisation’s approach to
critical thinking
o collaborate with team
members to identify at least
three workplace problems that
fall within the scope of the
team and require further
critical thinking
o negotiate with team members
to choose which problem is
the most pressing and
relevant.
Task outcome: Satisfactory Not satisfactory
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Date: