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UC - 5 - Contribute To Workplace Innovation
UC - 5 - Contribute To Workplace Innovation
UC - 5 - Contribute To Workplace Innovation
Sector:
Qualification:
Module Title:
Welcome!
The unit of competency, “Contribute to Workplace Innovation”, is
one of the nine basic competencies of level II qualifications which comprises
the knowledge, skills and attitudes for you to posses.
The module, “Contributing to Workplace Innovation”, contains
training materials and activities for you to complete. It is one of the modules
required to complete a certain qualification.
You are required to go through a series of learning activities in order
to complete each of the learning outcomes of the module. Information
Sheet (IS) consists of learning contents that you need to attain while
reading. After IS is a Self-Check (SC) that will help you test yourself if you
have attained the larning objectives.
Task Sheets (TS), Job Sheets (JS) and Procedural Sheet (PS) are
activity sheets that will helpyopu practice the skills previously discussed in
the IS or demonstrated by your Learning Facilitator (LF). A Performance
Criteria Checklist (PCC) and Procedural Checklist (PC) are provided with
the TS or JS, and PS which will aloow for self-evaluaiton or peer evaluaiton.
These checklist may be used by your LF to evaluate your performance.
Follow these activities on your own. If you have questions, don’t hesitate to
ask your LF for assistance.
The goal of this program is the development of practical skills. To gain
this skill, you must learn basic concepts and terminology. For the most part,
you’ll get this informaiton from the IS.
This module was prepared to help you achieve the required
competency.
This will be the source of informaiton for you to acquire knowledge
and skills in this competency independently and at your own pace, with
minimum supervision or help from your LF.
Remember to:
● Work through all the information sheets and complete the
activities in each section.
● Read IS and complete SC. Suggested references are included to
supplement the materials provided in this module.
● Perform ther TS, JS, and PS until you are confident that your
outputs conform to the PCC and/or PC that follows the sheets.
● Submit outputs of the TSs, and JSs to your LF for evaluation
and recording in the Achievement Chart. Outputs shall serve
CONTENTS:
1. What is Workplace Innovation?
2. Cultivating Innovation and Creativity in the Workplace
3. Techniques to Encourage Innovation in the Workplace
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
1. Identify opportunities for improvement proactively in own area of work.
2. Gather and review information which may be relevant to ideas
and which might assist in gaining support for idea.
CONDITION:
The following are available:
1. EQUIPMENT
● Computer
● Whiteboard
2. LEARNING MATERIALS
● Competency based learning materials
● Bond paper, permanent Marker
ASSESSMENT METHOD:
● Written test
● Interview
4. Answer Self-Check 5.1-2 Compare your answer with the Answer Key 5.1-
Cultivating Innovation 2. If you got 100% correct answer in this self-
and Creativity in the check, you can now move to the next
Workplace information sheet. If not review the information
sheet and go over the self-check again.
5. Read Information Sheet If you have some problems on Information
5.1-3 on Techniques to Sheet5.1-3, don’t hesitate to approach your
Encourage Innovation in facilitator. If you feel you are knowledgeable on
the Workplace. the content of Information Sheet 5.1-3, you can
now answer Self-Check 5.1-3.
6. Answer Self-Check 5.1-3 Compare your answer with the Answer Key 5.1-
Techniques to Encourage 3. If you got 100% correct answer in this self-
Innovation in the check, you can now move to the next
Workplace. information sheet. If not review the information
sheet and go over the self-check again.
Learning Objectives:
After reading this INFORMATION SHEET, You must be able to:
1. list the different types of innovation,
2. discuss the meaning of innovation in the workplace,
3. develop goals and ideas for workplace innovation.
Defining Innovation?
Innovation in its modern meaning is "a new idea, creative thoughts,
new imaginations in form of device or method". Innovation is often also
viewed as the application of better solutions that meet new requirements,
unarticulated needs, or existing market needs.
The main driver for innovation is often the courage and energy to
better the world. An essential element for innovation is its application in a
commercially successful way. Innovation has punctuated and changed
human history (consider the development of electricity, steam engines,
motor vehicles, et al).
4. Organizational innovation
(also referred to as social
innovation) involves the
creation of new organizations,
business practices, ways of
running organizations or new
organizational behavior.
True or False:
1. True
2. True
3. False
4. True
5. False
Learning Objectives
After reading this Information sheet, you must be able to:
1. list down tips in enhancing creativity,
2. describe traits of creative people,
3. use leadership for innovation.
Leading Innovation
To innovate is to intentionally let
go of the “way things are” and
welcome “the way they could be.”
Breakdown is the first step toward
innovation, an intentional release of
established habits of thought,
expectations, assumptions, and
beliefs in order to embrace “not
knowing”. The concept of surfing the
“edge of chaos” sounds exciting until
you get there and leave control at the door. In Adaptive Change we call this
the Fall.
SELF-CHECK 5.1-2
Cultivating Innovation and Creativity in the Workplace
Enumeration:
Direction: Enumerate the 5 traits of creative people.
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Enumeration:
Direction: Enumerate the 5 traits of creative people.
Learning Objectives
After reading this Information sheet, you must be able to:
1. List down techniques to encourage innovation in the workplace.
2. Explain the importance of encouraging innovation in the
workplace.
3. Restructure work layout and design for innovation.
Encouraging workplace
innovation not only helps
companies stay on top of the
market and defend their bottom
lines: innovative workplaces are
also happier workplaces, with
consistently higher levels of
employee satisfaction and
retention.
Innovation strategy
Workplace innovation needs to
be strategic and should be a core part
of your company’s DNA.
No matter what their
responsibilities are, every single one of
your people should be able to draw a
straight line between the company
innovation strategy and the contents of
his or her day-to-day job.
Willingness to experiment
In order to be truly innovative,
companies need to be willing to
experiment.
Whether this is through
customer co-creation, identifying
Open communication
Getting innovation right takes
a commitment to open
communication and transparency.
To make innovation a real
part of your workplace culture, your
staff need to know senior
management is being open about
the need for innovation, and the
potential benefits for the company
as a result.
● Be transparent
Your staff need clear, consistent
information about the company’s
innovation goals, and about the
potential benefits for employees if
they get things right.
Staff wellbeing
Enumeration:
Direction: Give 7 techniques to encourage innovation in
the workplace.
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7.
Learning Objectives:
After reading this Information Sheet, you must be able to:
1. Identify steps in generating and developing ideas;
2. discuss brainstorming;
3. develop WH-questions to generate and develop ideas.
For many people, the toughest part of any writing task is getting
started. Here are some exercises that help with "blank page syndrome" or
"writer's block."
Listing: Brainstorm a list of possible
topics. If the assignment deals with your
own experience, try a list of important
events in your life related to the topic. If
the assignment deals with material from
a class, brainstorm all of the things
you've talked about in the class that you
remember or that interest you.
The important thing is not to
censor yourself at this point - write down
anything that comes to mind.
People backstab and criticize each other more often than we like. Even
our politicians today make personal attacks and conduct smear campaigns.
Online, we often see people shaming or attacking each other, or worse still,
others supporting such behavior and joining in the attack, rather than
taking a higher ground.
Firstly, many news stories (depending on where you live) are heavily
censored according to the publication’s ideology and alliances. In some
countries, the government controls the media. So when you’re reading the
“news,” you’re really reading news created/selected to fit what the
publication wants you to know, along with filtered comments and angled
statistics.
Something to consider when you think that you’re being educated by
reading a particular news channel — it’s more likely that you are being
conditioned.
Secondly, news channels tend to sensationalize and report what is
shocking. In internet terms, “clickbait.” As the saying goes, “When a dog
bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man
bites a dog, that is news.” Hence even though there are one billion possible
things to report each day, including countless positive stories and
consciousness-raising events, the selected stories are rarely the most
important, but some of the most negative, fear-based stories you can find.
Thirdly, even though we may be shocked by a grisly murder that just
happened, we have to bear in mind that murders, suicides, crimes, and even
war happen every single day. But when you read the news, your attention
gets directed to that one crime or that one murder. Or when a news channel
SELF-CHECK 5.2-2
Great Minds Discuss Ideas. Average Minds Discuss Events. Small Minds
Discuss People.
True or False
Direction: Read the following statements below and write True if
the statement is true and write False if the statement is false.
1. When we bad-mouth others, gossip, or follow the
news reactively, it doesn’t bring us anywhere.
2. When you switch from discussing people to events, there is an
improvement because you look beyond people and focus on
events.
3. Discussing people means to understand the higher level
messages behind an event, to understand human behavior,
to look beyond what’s given, and to find solutions to help the
world.
4. People backstab and criticize each other more often than we
like.
5. Complaining or chit-chatting about people/events endlessly
will not change our lives or make us smarter.
1. True
2. True
3. False
4. True
5. True
Learning Objectives:
After reading this Information sheet, you must be able to:
1. list the ways to encourage sharing of ideas;
2. identify ideas for sharing
3. develop ideas to share among team members.
True or False
Direction: Read the following statements and tell whether the
statement is correct or not. Write TRUE if the statement correct and FALSE
if the statement is wrong.
1. If a team member suggests an idea that obviously will not
work or is even irrelevant, don't put them down.
2. People who are shy about sharing their ideas usually feel
their ideas are not great and they may look bad in front of
their colleagues.
3. One of the best ways to engage your team is by asking
what they'd like to learn.
4. To help foster more creativity, consider permanent teams,
desk arrangements and assignments.
5. Sometimes people are stuck in creative ruts and need a little
motivation.
Assessment Criteria
1. Use critical inquiry method to integrate different ideas for change of key
people.
2. Use summarizing, analyzing and generalizing skills to extract
Listen
Monitor the progress while the
change is occurring. Make it known
that you welcome feedback and listen to
any concerns your employees may
have. While some may object to certain
changes simply because they were used
to the old way of doing things, others
may have intelligent and legitimate
alternate solutions that you should
consider. Implement any employee-based ideas you can to make the
transition go more smoothly.
True or False
Direction: Read the following statements and tell whether the
statement is correct or not. Write TRUE if the statement correct
and FALSE if the statement is wrong.
1. True
2. True
3. False
4. True
5. False
Learning Objectives:
WARNINGS
● Avoid management-only decision making that is imposed upon
employees.
● Do not play favorites or advance people without clear, merit-
based criteria.
● Be careful not to spring the changes on everyone suddenly,
without warning.
● Never threaten or coerce workers into submission.
● Forget about mass layoffs if you want to maintain any kind of
corporate culture.
Enumeration
Direction: Enumerate the steps on How to Get Employees Involved in
Making Changes?
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21/15-ways-to-encourage-creative-idea-sharing-from-all-team-
members/#273d007ace0a
https://www.innovationresource.com/seven-strategies-for-generating-
ideas/
https://www.braineet.com/blog/encouraging-workplace-
innovation/#strategy