Procedure A And Procedure 2 Essay.

Procedure A

.A document describing team goals
.A draft budget for team activities
.A document describing which potential team members to include
.A document describing strengths and weakness of current team members
.A document describing team ground rules
.A document describing innovation schedule
.A document describing rewards

Procedure 2

1).Describe innovation in your own words.

a). What different kinds of innovation are there?
b). What type/s of innovation did your group show?
c). What are the benefits of innovation?
d). Explain how innovative proposals decided on or discussed are economical and practical.

2). How do you think you performed in the team meeting?

a). Did you use feedback from Assessment Task 1 to improve your team performance? If so, how?
b). Based on your impressions and feedback received from your team, how would you improve your performance?

3). How would you build constructive feedback and two-way communication into future team activities?

a). How would you communicate key issues to colleagues?
b). What are the challenges of being innovative in an open and constructive way?

4). How would you implement the innovative solutions you have come up with as a team?

a). What measures would you take to ensure successful take-up?
b). How would you communicate the changes?

5). Describe the internal and external factors that contribute to a team becoming and remaining innovative including:

a). Team characteristics
b). The role of group dynamics and diversity (for example, cultural background, religion, gender)
c).  broader environmental factors, for example, the culture of the workplace, the wider political, economic, social or technological environment

6).Explain how activities can encourage or hinder innovation in a team, including:

a). planning and scheduling of time and activities
b). modeling behavior
c). providing rewards and recognition
d). planning communications
e). Providing feedback

7). Identify any areas that the team member could improve to add more value to the teamwork process.

8). Identify opportunities for team members to improve their skills in innovation.

9). What are the major strengths of this team member?

10). Provide any other comments that you may have regarding the performance of the team member.

11). Identify any areas that the team member could improve to add more value to the teamwork process.

12.  Identify opportunities for team members to improve their skills in innovation.

13). What are the major strengths of this team member?

14). Provide any other comments that you may have regarding the performance of the team member.

15). Identify any areas that the team member could improve to add more value to the teamwork process.

16). Identify opportunities for team members to improve their skills in innovation.

17). What are the major strengths of this team member?

18). Provide any other comments that you may have regarding the performance of the team member.

Team Goals

Procedure A

A document describing team goals

The team goals of Home Reinvention are as follows:

1. To use the resources of Home Reinvention efficiently

 Fact that the company is lagging behind its major competitor Heartland Heritage, due to lack of technological inefficiency, the team members should consider investing resources in new technologies that in turn will facilitate the company to provide faster delivery along with master manufacturing of the products.

2. To recapture the lost market share of Home Reinvention and to enhance the market shares in the local market.

Due to lack of technological advances and other environment and supply flow change related issues, the brand equity as well as consumer loyalty of the company has got reduced (Goetsch and Davis 2014). Hence the team members should work on enhancing the consumer loyalty of the company.

3.  To reduce the impact of manufacturing the products on the environment.

When it comes to environmental impact, the company must use timber that comes from sustainable forests. Moreover, appropriate waste management strategies must be implemented in order to reduce environmental impact resulting from wastes like brass, wood scrap, ceramic, marble, etc

7. To enhance the quality of the product as well as the overall revenue of the company.

For this the team members are focusing on enhancing the flow of materials in the organization and maintain a continuous flow of supplies. The team members are working on enhancing the communication between the team so that effective information and knowledge can be shared.

A draft budget for team activities

 

Estimation	5000 dollars
Expenditure	Low (in Dollars)	High (in Dollar)
Investment on technology	1000	2000
Manufacturing Costs	2500	3500
Internal communication	1000	2000
Waste management	500	1000

A document describing which potential team members to include

In order to achieve the above mentioned goals, it is highly crucial for the company to select team members who have the potential and skill as to bring about the necessary changes.

Name	Strengths	Weaknesses
Li	· Extensive marketing experience · Strategic, conceptual and holistic.	Lack of computer skills
David	· Have carpentry and leadership experiences · Innovative minded	Average amount of knowledge in Computer
Rafaela	· friendly, supportive, empathetic, people-oriented and communicative · experienced as a Chartered accountant · Has Leadership skills · Love the work of home renovation
Adnan	· Has in-depth knowledge in Computer · Is a trained barista	· Lacks commutative skills · Lacks manufacturing knowledge
Susan	· good at all functions of MS Office · has extensive interior design experience	· Conservative minded · Lacks cultural competence
John	· Posses management skills · has extensive experience in the financial sector · experienced as a senior banking clerk · has a license to trade securities

A document describing strengths and weakness of current team members

Name	Strengths	Weaknesses
Ryan	· Has Leadership skills · friendly, supportive, empathetic, people-oriented and communicative · Has experience of working priory in a interior designing industry.	Lacks computer skills
Ann	· Has the capacity to motivate others · Dedicated to work	· Highly unpunctual · Conservative minded
Chris	· Very enthusiastic · Have good knowledge in computer · Possess punctuality	· Lacks cultural competence · Turns abusive at times

A document describing team ground rules

• We treat each other with respect.
• We intend to develop personal relationships to enhance trust and open communication.
• In case of constructional feedback, we will avid being defensive and use criticism as a tool for personal development
• We will recognize and celebrate individual and team accomplishment.
• During meeting, one person will talk at a time and no side discussion will be allowed.
• We will be committed to the objective of the team.

A document describing innovation schedule

Activity	Start date	Duration
Stake holder communication	May 12-19	7 days
Conducting meeting	May 20-23	3 days
Decision forecasting	May 24-26	2 days
Budget plan	May 27-4th June	8 days
Implementation	June 5th-August 5th	2-4 months

A document describing rewards

Reward type	Target employee	Criteria for reward
Incentive	Operation and Management team	Best supply chain, most cost effective negotiation
Appraisal	Production department	Best innovative idea

Procedure 2

1.a) Innovation can be defined as an idea which is replicable at an economic cost and must satisfy the special needs of an organization. Innovation includes deliberate application of imagination, information and initiative in deriving greater and exceptional values from different type of resources (Certo 2018).

b) One of the chief innovations of the group includes dust wood furniture.  In order the team has developed strategies to manufacture dust wood furniture that is furniture that is made from dust of woods.   Moreover in order to reduce the impact of CO2, and other harmful gas emission from the manufacturing sector, the team has contacted with a reputable carbon offsetting organization.

c) The group has developed and implemented innovative ideas for reducing environmental impact of the manufacturing process. Not only that, these innovative measures has also allowed the management of the company to recycle the byproducts and manufacture products from them.  

d) The manufacturing of dust wood furniture is highly economical. Dusts that were otherwise thrown away is now recycled (Dyer and Dyer 2013). This will reduce the cost of the company to buy more timber for manufacturing furniture. Hence, this innovation will be helpful for the environment as well.

2). As a team member, I have encouraged my team mates to be more productive. Moreover, I have also taken part in group discussion actively. However, due to lack of computer knowledge, I was not able to help the team for documenting the plan. Thus overall, I think my performance was quite satisfactory.

Potential Team Members

a).The feedback has improved the performance of the team to a great extent. Since team members are now aware of their weaknesses, they are working on eradicating them and enhance their quality and productivity of work.

b).From the feedback, I have understood that my lack of knowledge in computer is imposing negative impact on my performance. Hence I have joined an computer learning course to improve my computer skills

3.a) To communicate effectively with my colleagues, I will us both online as well as offline communication tools like intranet or face to face communication.

b) One of the major challenges of being innovative is the acceptability of the consumers as well as the employees. Since dust wood furniture is a new product, it will take time to drag the consumers to the product. Moreover, employees may find it difficult to use the tools that are being implemented by the company to manufacture dust wood furniture.  

4.a) 

I will ensure that the only the potential team members have been selected for the project.
I will work on reducing work-in-progress.
I will schedule regular meetings to access the progress of the project.
I will clearly define the project scope to the team member

4.b)

While communicating the changes, I will ensure honesty and transparency about what is the change and why is it happening.
I will inform the employees what is the benefit of the changes for them.
I will also consider the emotional impact of the changes on the employees.

5). 

a) 

The characteristic of the team includes

1.Effective formal as well an informal communication and relation between the employees.
2.Employees focus on the goals and the outcomes of the project
3.Everyone contribute their fair share.

b)

1.Cultural diversity imposes both positive as well as negative impact on the team. While the mentioned factor improves the creativity and innovative ideas of the team, cultural diversity often results in conflict in the team.
2.Gender diversity is also important for a group since while female employees are found to have better skill at managing multiple numbers of tasks at the same time male employees can enhance the productivity of the team.

c) 

In order to understand the potentiality as well as consumers of the interior designing market of Australia, it is highly crucial to understand to assess and evaluate the Political, Economic, Social and environmental environment of the mentioned industry.

6)

a. This will help the team to keep the costs under control and prepare the team for the unexpected consequences.

b. This provides guidance to the employees and reduces the chances of mistake.

c. These activities will provide encouragement and motivation to the employees and enhance their loyalty to the Organization.

d. Effective communication between the employees as well as between the supervisors and the employees enhances the consistency of how the project will be handled. It also results in productivity of the employees. Planned communication also results in better outcome of the project.

e. Constructive feedbacks helped the employees of the Home Reinvention to understand their weaknesses and work on eradicating them (Ndulue et al. 2012). Not only that, positive feedbacks also motivates the employees and as a result enhance their enthusiasms. 

7). Considering the fact that Ryan poses leadership skills, He could have provided more motivation to his peer team member. Motivation provided by a team member is highly beneficial for a team since it develops the feeling of healthy competition among the team members.

8). During the meeting, Ryan had the opportunity to develop her imaginative skills as well as implementing his practical experience of working previously in an interior designing organization. During implementation stage, Ryan will be able to learn, various ways of managing waste which has further improved his working skills.

9). 

Has Leadership skills
friendly, supportive, empathetic, people-oriented and communicative
Has experience of working priory in a interior designing industry.

10). Being an experienced employee, the performance of Ryan was better than a majority of his team members.

11). Unlike other members, ann being highly conservative was unable to interact with his team members freely. As a result of this, his productivity was lower than what was expected. If ann could express himself and his ideas in front of his team mates and develop a effective communication with his team mates, he could have achieved more than what he has.

12). Like Ryan, Ann had the opportunity to enhance his communication skills by communicating effectively with other team members. Besides that, he also had the opportunity to motivate other team members and enhance the overall productivity of the team.

13). 

Has the capacity to motivate others
Dedicated to work

14). Being an experienced employee, ann was dedicated to his work. However, lack of communication skills has resulted in decrement in his productivity.

15). The lack of appropriate behaviour in
Chris has resulted in severe decrement in his performance. Being highly enthusiastic and possessing knowledge about computer could have taken his performance to a good level.

16). 
Chris to develop effective communication skills while working with his team members.
He could also develops bondage with his team members while working for the company
Moreover, he could enhance his computer skills during the implementation process.

17).

Very enthusiastic
Have good knowledge in computer
Possess punctuality

18). While being enthusiastic and punctual are two major strength of Chris. He should walk on his abusive nature in order to enhance hid productivity and relation with the other team members.

Reference:

Certo, S.C., 2018. Supervision: Concepts and skill-building. McGraw-Hill Education.

Dyer, W.G. and Dyer, J.H., 2013. Team building: Proven strategies for improving team performance. John Wiley & Sons.

Goetsch, D.L. and Davis, S.B., 2014. Quality management for organizational excellence. Upper Saddle River, NJ: pearson.

Ndulue, U., Peréa, F.C., Kayou, B. and Martinez, L.S., 2012. Team-building activities as strategies for improving community-university partnerships: Lessons learned from Nuestro Futuro Saludable. Progress in community health partnerships: research, education, and action, 6(2), pp.213-218.