2. You must lead the innovation project/task that you prepared for in question 1. You should follow the agreed timeline to complete the task for the organisation or work area:

In your work with the team:

• Use techniques and tools to facilitate creative and innovative thinking, and to generate ideas
• Assess and refine your practice to make sure you model and support positive innovation
• Determine the requirements for innovation and promote sustainable innovative activities
• Use appropriate methods to provide knowledge to the team (and any other stakeholders)
• Identify, evaluate, and manage the risks to innovation
• Promote innovative practices, processes, products/services as required to support innovation and according to the needs of those involved and the organisation
• Capture, communicate, and share relevant innovative ideas and practices
• Use team approaches that encourage communication, consultation, and team development for innovation
• Identify and provide relevant resources for the team to work on innovation
• Use strategies to foster a workplace culture of innovation
• Establish systems and processes that support team innovation.

You should also sustain innovative thinking and practice with the team and:

• Use strategies that integrate innovation into work activities
• Develop one or more processes to monitor performance, and implement this to monitor individual and collective innovative thinking and practice
• Identify and assess any potential barriers and risks to innovation and develop strategies to manage this.

When the project/task is completed, reflect on innovation performance and produce a report; you should:

• Obtain feedback on the project/task from three stakeholders that were involved (for example, this could be three team members, or you may want to include the project/task originator or another organisational person)
• Assess the feedback that you receive from the stakeholders
• Assess own and others performance to identify where improvement could be made
• Develop strategies to make improvements to own and other's performance for innovative thinking and practice
• Create report that documents innovation performance and where improvements could be made for future innovation; you should include your improvement strategies.

Your report must be written professionally and presented according to organisational format and style requirements. This should be checked and correct in spelling, grammar, and meaning.

ANSWER IN QUESTION #1

Yes, it is necessary to keep a close eye on this activity. It is crucial to monitor both the activity and the performance of the team to guarantee that the project or task is being led properly and that the team is receiving the required support to be innovative. Observing the activity and the performance of the team is also important.

Through observation of the activity, the initiator or manager will be able to evaluate the performance of the team as well as the performance of the leader, identify any difficulties that may impede the team from being inventive, and provide comments to the leader on how to improve their approach.

When witnessing the activity, some important details to keep an eye out for are as follows:

The leader's ability to engage participants in discussion about the project or task through the use of open-ended questions and attentive listening abilities. The investigation was carried out to recognize, investigate, and establish innovation strategies, practices, and trends derived from a variety of pertinent sources. An analysis of the circumstances under which a team is most likely to innovate, as well as a search for any obstacles that might stand in the way of such an endeavor. An analysis of the available innovation drivers and enablers, as well as how these elements might be incorporated into the project or task to be supported. The leader's evaluation of their leadership style, as well as their thoughts and intentions for how they will demonstrate creative ways of thinking and working with the team. The report that was compiled to provide the findings of the research as well as the research itself to the person who initiated the project or its manager. The plans that were developed to determine the objective of the project or the work at hand; these plans include innovation methods, requirements for resources, and a timetable for the team.

The activity's creator or manager will be able to obtain a better knowledge of how the team is functioning, recognize any obstacles that may impede them from being inventive, and provide input to the group's leader on how to improve their approach if they observe the activity. This will guarantee that the project or job is effectively led and that the team is given the support it needs to be inventive.

In conclusion, it is essential to keep an eye on this activity to guarantee that the project or job is being led competently and that the team is receiving the necessary assistance to be inventive. The activity's creator or manager will be able to obtain a better knowledge of how the team is functioning, recognize any obstacles that may impede them from being inventive, and provide input to the group's leader on how to improve their approach if they observe the activity.