In this first activity, you will plan and prepare to lead your team. This includes: describing the work team that you lead defining the team's objectives describing how the team's objectives relate to the organisation's overall strategy defining the work task that your team will complete planning and preparing to lead your team in a way that is collaborative, inclusive, culturally sensitive and which builds trust and cohesion planning to share your ideas and information with your team and other stakeholders (this must include internal and external stakeholders) planning to collaborate with your team to develop a strategy to complete the work task. Your strategy should include a process for communicating work progress.

Describe the work team that you lead Provide an overview of your chosen work team and its objectives. Include: the purpose of the team the team's objectives a description of how the team's purpose relates to the organisation's overall strategy. In your answer, explain why it's important for good workplace relationships and that your team clearly understand its purpose and objectives.
Collecting and analysing information Identify the information that you relied on to define the work task. Include: What information did you collect and how did you collect it? How did you analyse the information (for example, what system did you use? How did you ensure that you relied on accurate information from a range of sources - internal and external? etc) How did the information that you collected inform your planning? For example: How did it help you to decide how you would lead your team? How did it help you to plan to achieve the work task?
Planning to share information with team and stakeholders Plan how you will share your ideas and information about the work task with your team and other internal and external stakeholders. Describe: the strategies that you will use the information that you will share how those strategies and information will help to promote team cohesion and develop positive workplace relationships how your strategies will meet the diverse needs of your team and stakeholders. Include: a list of the internal and external stakeholders who you will include (and why) a list of the team members who you will include (and why). If using the case study, the above roles can be played by family and friends.
Planning to collaborate with your team Plan how you will collaborate with your team to develop a strategy Describe: the diverse requirements of your team (e.g. cultural differences) and the actions that you will take to address them the social and cultural environment relevant to your organisation and team and how that might support or hinder the achievement of your work task the strategies that you will use to ensure active collaboration with all members of your team the techniques that you will use to engage with members of your team and to build trust any relationship problems that you foresee that may impact achievement of the task and how you plan to address them. How did you use your personal and professional networks to support your leadership and relationship building skills?
Link/ Description or Attach:	Information sources/references
Policies and procedures
Links to relevant legislation
Information samples (at least 3 samples of information you have collected to analyse and develop ideas for the work task)