During your initial meeting, explain to your team the concept of the Empathise phase of Design Thinking( In childcare). Your goal with this exercise is to develop a shared understanding of the challenges and what the problem is the team will be trying to solve, i.e., the purpose of innovation. The team need to understand the service/s innovation objectives and vision. Keep it simple and to the point. Fill and upload an Empathise summary worksheet template. The purpose of this exercise is to:

• You must ensure that the document file name contains Qualification Code [CHC50121]_Module Number [M#]_Assessment Task number [AT#]_Question number [Q#]. E.g., CHC50121_M7_AT01_Q1

HINTS: Keep note taking brief, use bullet points only. Select only one (1) quality area, procedure and practice for this project. As a leader, it's your responsibility to keep the team focused and targeted in their creativity and innovation. Ideas about other aspects of service operations will inevitably develop as the team innovates and becomes highly creative. Develop a method of capturing these to refer to later, so that the ideas are not lost. This will enable the team to focus on one area, while honouring contributions.

(Answers should be based on a childcare)

practical outcomes early childhood education Template: Empathise summary worksheet In collaboration with your team, complete the following worksheet to undertake the Empathise phase of Design Thinking. Learner's Full Name: Date: Team Name: Team members' Names: Service's vision and Provide a summary of how the service values innovation, including quotes from the service's objectives for philosophy or other documentation which support innovation (if available) or anecdotal data. innovation: Quality Area and/or List the Quality Area (4 or 7) and/or the Element nominated for innovation for this project. element nominated for innovation: One (1) procedure Identify and describe one (1) procedure and one (1) practice that this innovation project will and one (1) practice focus on improving, relating to the Quality Area and Element above. nominated for E.g., Rostering - allocation of room team. Current practice is keeping the status innovation quo, based on previous schedules. Summary of Summarise the challenges of the nominated procedure/practice based on information challenges: gathered from stakeholder engagement and review of service practices/procedures/documentation. E.g., Identified higher than normal absenteeism of staff. Currently most versatile staff chosen for room substitution for staff absences rather than based on staff preferences.Summary of Summarise ideas for improvement and innovation on the procedure and practice nominated above gathered from stakeholder engagement to date. stakeholder ideas/feedback for E.g., Increasing educator consultation and discussion to ascertain preferences for innovation: room allocation for following year (may also influence future recruitment of staff and allocation to rooms) Any other relevant Summarise the information gathered from stakeholder engagement and review of service data/information to practices/procedures/documentation - i.e., ideas for improvement and innovation on the procedure and practice nominated above. consider: E.g., Staff suggest an end of year consultation for following year room allocations