Review the simulated workplace information for Apparel Brands Pty Ltd in Appendix 1.
2.In consultation with your assessor:
a.form a team
b.agree to meet to discuss team objectives and develop performance plans for each team member.
3.Prepare to work with your team and complete the following:
a.Consider several strategies to ensure each team member has input into the planning process.
b.Consider several ideas for policies to ensure team members take responsibility for own work.
c.Consider team goals and how team can achieve goals.
d.Consider strategies for gaining consensus among your team.
e.Consider group behaviour and how best to present your ideas and work effectively within the group.
f.Review the third-party report in Appendix 3 to ensure that you are familiar with the team performance expectations.
g.Prepare to take notes to provide evidence of team meeting.
4.In team meeting, consult to establish ground rules for teamwork:
a.propose and agree on strategies for ensuring participation of team members
b.develop policy and procedures to ensure team members take responsibility for own work; these should contain ground rules for group work to ensure fairness and high performance.
5.Discuss and determine team goals and how goals can be achieved.
6.Referring to the task requirements in Appendix 1, assign and agree on responsibilities to achieve team goals:
a.Determine outcomes, outputs and KPIs for each team member – for example, determine agreed responsibilities, quality standards and how performance quality or achievement of tasks will be measured, i.e. number of pages of research, number of network contacts, number of credible sources, hours spent on research, number of coaching sessions conducted to improve performance of other team members, number of inputs into team meetings.
b.Ensure work is fairly distributed among team members.
7.Determine and agree on specific duties to support team members with assigned responsibilities.
Your team has been charged with the task of identifying an e-commerce opportunity for Apparel Brands and developing a proposal to put to the board of directors. For example, your team could decide to propose setting up an online business in which customers design their own custom t-shirts.
Your budget for setting up the e-commerce venture is $30,000.
For your proposed e-commerce venture, your team will need to determine:
Value proposition: What will you offer consumers? What products? What price? What quality? How will the products benefit your customers?
Who your target market is: What are the characteristics of the people who will buy your products? What do they need or desire?
How you will gather necessary information for setting up the venture?
Who you will consult or network with to benefit from others’ expertise?
What steps you will need to take to set up the e-commerce venture? This will range from website design, to ensuring a system for payment, to establishing an online presence through web search engines, etc.
How you will determine cost?

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