Category: Writing

Project 1
You are the person responsible for supporting sustainable practice in a newly opened child care centre. There are a total of 50 children enrolled of varying ages and you should take into consideration two children with disabilities. There is an outdoor area adjoined to a waterway and there is a planted vegetable garden and wildlife that is local to the area. A contracted cleaning organisation is responsible for building maintenance and you have established networks with the local community centre and volunteer organisations.
You are required to develop a sustainable management plan, implement and then evaluate its success.
The sustainable management plan is to achieve the following goals:
define sustainable practice with reference to links with the national quality framework and standards within your service location, include consideration of the impact of key global issues, such as climate change, ozone layer effects, greenhouse effect, earth resources and biodiversity.
identify strategies you can encourage children and other stakeholders to participate in sustainable practice
consider where there might be opportunities to introduce the concept of sustainability:
create a policy stating the service’s intent in relation to sustainability
create or modify any existing procedures regarding natural resources, waste, cleaning and maintenance, energy use and food and plant toxins so that they take into account sustainable practices
provide experiences for children to experience both indoor and outdoor space responsibly including the use of natural and recycled materials
take into account differing abilities to participate, methods of sharing information
How would you achieve and implement these goals? What stages would you ensure are included? Include in your answer some possible considerations and challenges, such as service philosophy and cultural changes, ethics and regulations. How would you evaluate the outcome of these strategies? Include evidence of qualitative and quantitative evaluation processes for sustainability program (1000-3000 words)

Project 1
Assessment must be conducted in a safe environment where evidence gathered demonstrates consistent performance of typical activities experienced in the creativity and innovation and include access to:
workplace documents
case studies and, where possible, real situations
office equipment and resources
interaction with others.
Application of skills and knowledge is required to be demonstrated to provide evidence of competency. You are required to create and submit a portfolio of assessment. Some of which can be any documents created within this and other units.
Completed the following tasks and provide evidence of completion as part of your portfolio.
Demonstrate how to innovate by including it in leadership and management activities.
Build relationships based on mutual respect and trust including evidence of positively accept ideas from others and offer constructive feedback.
Take a calculated risk to provide opportunities for innovation – provide evidence of a presentation of ideas and concepts to a range of audiences using structure and language to suit the audience
Evaluate your own approaches to innovation to ensure it matches the objectives of the organisation or project and look for ways to innovate own work practises.
Identify ways to promote innovation and celebrate successful ideas. provide evidence of meetings that show the use of active listening and questioning to discuss and clarify information and to confirm understanding (consider recording the meeting)
Review the physical work environment supports innovation – this includes evidence of asking colleagues for ideas to enhance the physical environment and assessing how well physical resources or equipment support innovation.
Communicate with staff –
Encourage and take part in collaborative work/ teamwork including identify ways to signal to colleagues own receptiveness to ideas.
Ask employees how work conditions can be amended to encourage innovative work processes and implement their ideas.
Identify ways to maximise a team’s opportunities for innovation.
Acknowledge a suggestion, improvement or innovative ideas from a colleague.
Explain to workers how innovation is aligned to the vision and objectives of the organisation or a project, provide evidence of collectively determining innovative ideas are consistent with the organisation’s or project’s objectives
Establish procedures that:
foster innovation and build a team’s ability to contribute to innovation
require workers and managers to thoroughly evaluate innovative ideas require feedback regarding innovative ideas
encourage consultation
require respectful communication between colleagues encourage the sharing of ideas

You have completed the project scope plan as part of your case study assessment in this unit. Develop a project plan. Attached is a project plan template that you may wish to use. Alternatively, you can use one from your workplace. You should ensure that your project plan adheres to the following steps.
Step 1
– You need to consult with the project team when planning the project. List four aspects on which you would consult the project team about, including whom you would consult.
Step 2
– What legislation will you need to be aware of when undertaking the project? Give two examples.
Step 3
– Create a project plan, with a schedule, budget, and risks. You will need to provide:
Work breakdown structure
A Gantt chart (there are many free Gantt chart tools on the Internet, or you may hand draw it)The roles and responsibilities of the project team, including your own
Step 4
– Explain how you would obtain approval of your project plan and from whom.
Attachments:
5346098_1_Assessment-doc-submission-requirements.pdf
5346098_2_BSBPMG522-Project–6-.docx
5346098_3_BSBPMG522-Project-Resource-Project-Plan–4-.docx