View Unit : Understand how to secure commitment to an achieving excellence strategy in food operations

Unit

Unit Reference Number

T/601/9660

Qualification Framework

QCF

Title

Understand how to secure commitment to an achieving excellence strategy in food operations

Unit Level

Level 4

Unit Sub Level

None

Guided Learning Hours

Unit Credit Value

Date of Withdrawal

SSAs

4.2 Manufacturing Technologies

Unit Grading Structure

Pass

Assessment Guidance

This unit is designed to assess the knowledge and understanding of learners in the workplace context, when securing commitment to an achieving excellence strategy in food operations. It can be assessed on or off the job.

The learner must demonstrate their current knowledge and understanding, to meet all assessment criteria. Assessment methods appropriate to the needs of the learner must be used to generate satisfactory evidence of knowledge and understanding.

It is recommended that this unit is taken with the relevant Occupational Skills Unit.

The Improve Assessment Strategy for Proficiency Qualifications in Food and Drink sets out the overarching assessment requirements.

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Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria

Learning Outcome - The learner will:		Assessment Criterion - The learner can:
1	Understand how to initiate commitment to the strategy	1.1	Summarise the organisation’s: • emerging achieving excellence vision • strategy • the rationale for the strategy • its change and improvement implications for own organisation
		1.2	Compare the advantages and disadvantages of main models and methods suitable for securing commitment needed for achieving excellence to be formally adopted by the organisation
		1.3	Describe how to identify and make contact with the relevant people and stakeholders to secure commitment to the strategy.
2	Understand how to plan and manage risk in securing commitment to the strategy	2.1	Explain how to devise and agree plans for securing commitment to an achieving excellence strategy
		2.2	Explain how to make changes to plans and carry out corrective direction as circumstances dictate and the associated management of priorities and rationale for colleagues
		2.3	Summarise the importance of contingency planning and how to do so effectively
		2.4	Explain how to assess and manage the risks and benefits associated with securing commitment to achieving excellence strategy, and the implications for organisational change and improvement
		2.5	Describe how to make critical decisions about securing commitment to the strategy.
3	Understand how to apply skills and resource to support commitment to the strategy	3.1	Describe the skills required to secure commitment to the strategy including negotiating, influencing, persuading and agreeing and how to apply these skills at the appropriate level
		3.2	Summarise the internal and resource barriers to securing commitment to strategy, and the techniques that deal with these
		3.3	Describe how to deal with stakeholder and line management expectations and how they influence the commitment process.
4	Understand how to communicate and evaluate commitment to the strategy	4.1	Compare the communication channels used to inform, both formal and informal
		4.2	Explain how to evaluate the success and impact of securing commitment
		4.3	Summarise the range of information sources and case studies available to support the rationale for achieving excellence
		4.4	Outline how to give and receive feedback about securing commitment and related management of change and improvement issues.

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