BSBCRT311 - Apply critical thinking skills in a team environment
Overview
This unit describes skills and knowledge required to apply critical thinking skills to generate solutions to workplace problems in a team environment.The unit applies to individuals who are required to develop and extend their critical and creative thinking skills to different issues and situations. These individuals apply a range of problem solving, evaluation and analytical skills resolve workplace issues within a team context.
Assessment
For Melbourne campuses
Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each units learning outcomes & performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.
Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:
- generate and present solutions to a workplace problem on at least two occasions.
In the course of the above, the candidate must: - identify and analyse workplace problems as part of a team
- develop questions on key challenges of a chosen problem
- consult relevant stakeholders to gather information on workplace problem
- use a range of creative thinking techniques as part of a team to generate ideas or responses to questions or issues
- use critical thinking processes to develop relevant questions and criteria for identified workplace issue
- present to relevant stakeholders and respond to answers
- assess feedback to identify key personal and team learnings.
Required reading
The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by the VU Polytechnic and/or via the VU Polytechnic e-learning system.
As part of a course
This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):