Carefully read the following scenario.

You are the manager of a busy caf within the Blue Healer Hotel and Spa. Apart from you and the owner, there is a full-time chef named Navneet, two sou chefs, two part-time kitchen porters and casual wait staff employed. The casual wait staff are from the local area and are mostly university students or high school students working part-time shifts. The team is tight knit and work well together. The casual wait staff visit the caf socially sometimes and the culture is one of sharing and helping each other out when needed.

The caf's vision is to be the most popular caf within the local region renown for it's amazing local food and service and vibrant atmosphere.

Its mission is to grow the caf and its popularity by strong leadership, sound communication and the provision of a clear strategic direction that ensures it's a great place for staff to work; it provides food and beverages that the public wants with a focus on local produce and sustainable practices; and it becomes known for its vibe and atmosphere.

Values listed in its Strategic Plan include:

Operating with trust and integrity with each other, as well as with employees and the community.

Customer focus through appreciation of interests and passion for food that is local, healthy and delicious and sustainably sourced.

Camaraderie through recognising the superior strength and efficiencies of good team work

Innovation through best practice and change

Openness and transparency in communicating with our employees, customers and the broader community.

The organisation has adopted three key strategic goals is to improve local interest in the community and not just rely on the hotel guests for revenue, specifically to:

increase local traffic by 25% in the new upcoming financial year

develop and implement a "specials or loyalty" program to use as the basis of weekly advertising in the local area

provide entertainment to encourage people to stay longer.

A key approach to achieve these will be to establish relationships with local talent to provide entertainment and increase advertising locally.

The owner has asked you to develop a team work plan that will include a range of tasks and activities that the caf's staff can carry out over the next twelve months to achieve the key strategic goals and objectives.

In order to develop a plan that will be enthusiastically adopted by the team, you are to conduct a meeting with the staff to inform them of the new key goals, and to workshop innovative ideas they may have that could help the business achieve them. With the participation of the staff, you are to translate their ideas into actions that they will then carry out.

1.Prepare for a meeting with the team.

The meeting will provide an opportunity for all the caf's employees to contribute to the next stage of the business's development. You will be collecting ideas about how the team can fulfil the business's objectives.

You are expected to encourage all team members to be innovative and be constructive in their participation. Keep in mind that this unit's focus is on teams working in an effective way, and you are being assessed on your ability to encourage and support your colleagues to do this.

Review the case study information and write some notes on your plans for the meeting.

You will know the other meeting participants, so structure the meeting in a way that is appropriate for these people (your classmates). Use appropriate language and social references, too.

Write a statement of what the team's purpose and long-term objectives are, to take to the meeting with you. This will be just your starting point, though, as these will have to be discussed and accepted by all the meeting's participants.

As well as leading the meeting, you will be taking notes, and writing up a report afterwards. Review the Team Work Plan Template to order the information you receive at the meeting. How do you want to document the meeting's proceedings? With a white board, computer and projector, or butcher's paper?